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PhilBoxing.com Special: Philippine Boxing Historical Society |
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The Civic’s Sacred Ring: Filipino Fighters and the Heart of San Francisco
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 14 Apr 2025
The Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, once the San Francisco Civic, stands tall at 99 Grove Street—a quiet giant nestled in the city’s civic core. Time has worn its walls, but the building still breathes. For those who know Read full story Young Tommy: In the Gaze of Dempsey, In the Shadow of Villa
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 07 Apr 2025
In the small town of Silay in the sugar bowl region Negros Occidental, a Filipino boy named Fernando Opao was born on Christmas Day, December 25, 1910. Years later, the boxing world would come to know him by another name Read full story The Hard Road of Young Nationalista
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 03 Apr 2025
Federico Angulo Buenaflor— i.e. Young Nationalista— stood in his corner, fists clenched. His gloves were laced tight, his body aching from weeks of brutal training, his mind sharpened by years of struggle.
Across th Read full story Lope Tenorio: El Bulakeño Matón (The Bulacan Brawler)
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 31 Mar 2025
Lope Tenorio was a mystery. He was a fighter whose fists did the talking, a bruiser who carved his name into boxing history but left little behind about the man he was outside the ring. He came from Manila, but his bat Read full story Varias Milling: The Bicol Ghost Chicago Couldn’t Ignore
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 27 Mar 2025
The boxing ring does not care where you came from, what you gave up, or how much you deserve a break. It only knows one thing— the fight. The pain. The will to stand up when everything tells you to stay down.
Varia Read full story Socrates Batoto: A Champion of the Orient, Inspired by the Great Flash Elorde
PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 25 Mar 2025
Edgar ‘Socrates’ Batoto was a proud Waray, a fighter from Bato, Leyte—a land shaped by challenge, determination, and quiet strength. Boxing can be both unforgiving and rewarding. Talent, skill, and grace can take a fighte Read full story Cowboy Reyes: The Gatekeeper of the 1920s Golden Age of Philippine Boxing
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 20 Mar 2025
Francisco “Cowboy” Reyes was a fighter who stood at the crossroads of opportunity. Back in the early 1920s and 1930s, if a boxer wanted to prove himself in the Philippines and earn a ticket to fight in America, h Read full story 65 Years of Flash Elorde's Historic Feat; The Decline of Local World Boxing Bouts
By Teodoro Medina Reynoso, PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 19 Mar 2025
Last Sunday, March 16, marked a history-making event 65 years ago which seemed lost or overshadowed by the current political issues and to-dos.
On that date in 1960, Gabriel Flash Elorde brought the Philippines back Read full story Ignacio Fernandez: The Iron-Fisted Warrior of Silay
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 17 Mar 2025
Silay, Negros Occidental, was built on hard work. Sugarcane stretched for miles, and the air smelled of molasses.
Like most kids in Silay, Ignacio Fernandez worked the land. The fields were tough, but he was tou Read full story Johnny Hill: The Ebb and Flow of The First Filipino-American Boxing Star
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 15 Mar 2025
There was a time when Johnny Hill was expected to be the next great Filipino fighter, mentioned alongside legends like Pancho Villa and Ceferino Garcia. He was fast, skilled, and fearless. A triple champion of the Orient, Read full story
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