A GOLDEN replica of the world junior lightweight belt which the legendary boxing champion Gabriel “Flash” Elorde won in 1960 will be awarded to reigning world light flyweight champion Brian Viloria on Saturday during the 6th annual Elorde Boxing Awards Night at the Dusit Hotel Nikko.
Viloria and Fighter of the Year Manny Pacquiao are the outstanding honorees in the annual tribute to the country’s top fighters and boxing personalities organized by the Elorde clan and Johnny Elorde Management International.
“Viloria will be awarded an exact copy of the golden belt that Flash Elorde wore when he beat Harold Gomes [of the US] for the world junior lightweight championship 46 years ago at the Araneta Coliseum,” said Liza Elorde yesterday at the PSA Forum at the Pantalan Restaurant in Manila.
Elorde knocked out Gomes in the seventh round of a bruising encounter on March 16, 1960 before a sellout crowd in the Big Dome in Quezon City.
