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FOLAYANG FETED IN LOS ANGELES (PHOTOS)
PhilBoxing.com Mon, 21 Nov 2016

Photos by Jhay Otamias / PhilBoxing.com.
Newly crowned ONEFC lightweight world champion Eduard 'Landslide' Folayang of Baguio City was accorded a welcome reception at the Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church at 6657 W. Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles Sunday afternoon (Monday morning in Manila) to honor the champion in person and come to meet and greet his Los Angeles fans.
Folayang stopped defending champion Asian MMA legend Shinya ?Tobikan Judan? Aoki in the third round during their world championship fight last Nov. 11 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore.
The Los Angeles event was organized by Filipino America Service Group, Inc. (FASGI).
Folayang was born in Baguio, and endured a tough childhood growing up under tragically improvised circumstances with five of his siblings passing away due to illness.
He took up competing professionally in martial arts to ease his family's financial burden, even making it onto the Filipino national wushu team in 2003, 2005, and 2012. Folayang won gold at the SEA Games for wushu establishing himself as a true Filipino national hero.



After graduating from the University of the Cordilleras, he worked as a teacher in English and Physical Education, but soon decided to focus full time on a successful MMA career that saw him capture a Filipino welterweight championship in his first professional fight.
He then made a name for himself in Singaporean promotion Martial combat in 2010, resulting in a headlining spot on ONE championship's inaugural show. Five years later, Folayang returned to Singapore to headline ONE DEFENDING HONOR against ONE Lightweight world Champion Shinya Aoki, successfully dethroning the MMA legend to claim the ultimate prize in Asian MMA.
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