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STORY OF PHILIPPINE BOXING PART II: PANCHO VILLA, THE FIRST ASIAN WORLD CHAMPION
By Maloney L. Samaco, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 30 Mar 2020
Pancho Villa.
The international popularity of Philippine boxing started when Pancho Villa won the universal world flyweight title from Welshman Jimmy Wilde to become the first ever Asian and Filipino world champion Read full story STORY OF PHILIPPINE BOXING PART I: HOW BOXING STARTED IN THE PHILIPPINES
By Maloney L. Samaco, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 29 Mar 2020
Without boxing events to cover because of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, the author decided to come up with a series of articles depicting the origin and growth of boxing in the Philippines. These will include biograph Read full story GABRIEL ELORDE BY THE NUMBERS
By Teodoro Medina Reynoso, PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 25 Mar 2020
REMEMBERING GREAT DA FLASH
Today, March 25, 2020 is the 85th birth anniversary of the late great Gabriel Flash Elorde, the longest reigning world champion of the then newly revived junior lightweight division he himsel Read full story Gabriel “Flash” Elorde: In a class of his own
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 25 Mar 2020
Cebu City, Philippines
March 25, 2020
“The greatest fighter not named Muhammad Ali, Manny Pacquiao and/or Luisito Espinosa is Gabriel “Flash” Elorde, bar none,” the late Hermie Rivera once said and a Read full story Looking Back at Flash Elorde's Career From a Different Light and Perspective
By Teodoro Medina Reynoso, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 23 Mar 2020
Gabriel Elorde, the first and original Filipino boxer to be known internationally as Flash or colloquially, Da Flash (long before Nonito Donaire quite unimaginably adopted the nom de guerre as the Filipino Flash) would have bee Read full story Unconditional Love Allotey
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 23 Mar 2020
Cebu City, Philippines
March 23, 2020
(Circa 1989). The gentleman at the end of the line had a mellifluous African accent with a British lilt.
“This is Sumos Pappoe Allotey. May I speak with Hermie Rivera, please,” the cal Read full story Three Kings cited in Elorde Awards Night
By Joaquin Henson, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 01 Mar 2020
IBF superflyweight king Jerwin Ancajas, WBO bantamweight titlist JohnRiel Casimero and IBF minimumweight ruler Pedro Taduran will be honored as Co-Boxers of the Year for their outstanding performance in 2019 during Read full story Philippines All Time Best Boxers
By Teodoro Medina Reynoso, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 06 Oct 2019
Pancho Villa (L) and Flash Elorde.'
With the year 2020 just a few days away, the Ring Magazine through Michael Rosenthal has come up with a series titled Vision 20-20 featuring the greatest fighters produced by 20 Read full story MORRIS EAST: LIFE AFTER BOXING
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 20 Dec 2018
Las Vegas, Nevada -- He was, and still is, the youngest Filipino to have won and lost the WBA world light-welterweight boxing championship. His meteoric rise and fall at age nineteen left us wondering what else he could ha Read full story How are inductees to the Philippine Sports Hall of Fame chosen?
By Eddie Alinea, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 25 Nov 2018
The Philippine Sports Commission has just enshrined the third batch of sports greats to the Philippine Sports Hall of Fame without fanfare Thursday night at the Philippine International Convention Center. Except for the formal induction ceremony to honor Filipino athletes, coaches and trainers, noth Read full story
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