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June 28, 2008: When Manny Pacquiao Broke Through Historic Barrier at Lightweight (Part 2/3)
By Teodoro Medina Reynoso, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 15 Jun 2020
Flash Elorde (R) and Carlos Ortiz in action.
Part Two: Record of Futility at Lightweight
How hard is it to win a world championship at lightweight coming from the lower weights?
In seventy years since 1938 Read full story June 28, 2008: When Pacquiao Broke Through A Historic Barrier at Lightweight (Part 1)
By Teodoro Medina Reynoso, PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 11 Jun 2020
Pacquiao and Diaz at weighin.
The Lightweights as Make or Break Division
The heavyweights was once known as the ultimate prize in boxing.
The welterweights and the middleweights were called the glamour Read full story The Enduring Influence of Flash Elorde and Manny Pacquiao (Part 3)
By Teodoro Medina Reynoso, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 29 May 2020
The First Golden Age of Philippine Boxing started with flyweight champions Pancho Villa, Small Montana, Little Dado and Ceferino Garcia, the first Filipino and Asian to win the world middleweight title, that spanned from Read full story The Enduring Influence of Flash Elorde and Manny Pacquiao (Part 2)
By Teodoro Medina Reynoso, PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 28 May 2020
Elorde's Influence Extends Through 90s
Though the Philippines managed to produce world boxing champions in the next three decades through the 1990s, Flash Elorde remained as paragon for generations of local fighters Read full story The Enduring Influence of Flash Elorde and Pacquiao (Part I)
By Teodoro Medina Reynoso, PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 27 May 2020
Part One: The Elorde Influence
Manny Pacman Pacquiao and Gabriel Flash Elorde are the two most popular champion boxers in the country not only because of their world renowned individual ring exploits but for their lastin Read full story Paalam, Ate Laura…
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 08 May 2020
May 8, 2020
Mactan, Philippines
A solemn request from our friend Mr. Rolando Bohol…
“I’d like to ask you, my friends at PhilBoxing.com and PinoyGreats.com, to be with me in this short tribute Read full story Laura Elorde, light in the path of “Flash” to greatness
By Eddie Alinea of The Manila Times, PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 07 May 2020
Laura Elorde.
Laura Sarreal Elorde, widow of Filipino boxing great Gabriel “Flash” Elorde is gone. She was 92.
Mrs. Elorde, simply “Laura” to relatives and close friends and members of Philippine Media, who pass Read full story Laura Elorde, the original front-liner
By Recah Trinidad, PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 06 May 2020
Kindly share this fervent farewell message:
“Thank you for everything. Ma miss ka naming sobra. Thank you for all the lessons and memories that you’ve shared with us. Thank you for showing us how to be Read full story What If Manny Pacquiao Fought in the 80s (Fourth of a Series)
By Teodoro Medina Reynoso, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 05 May 2020
Pacquiao (L) and Azumah Nelson (R)
The 80s is among the strongest decades in professional boxing.
The decade saw Larry Holmes finally moving out of the huge shadow of the great Muhammad Ali and the rise of a heavywe Read full story Remembering Madam Laura Elorde
By Teodoro Medina Reynoso, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 04 May 2020
Gabriel 'Flash' Elorde had been a huge influence to me growing up in the 60s as far as my interest on boxing and sports in general. Hence when he lost one June night in 1967 to Yoshiaki Numata and ceded the wo Read full story
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