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The Filipino Sailors Who Boxed for More Than Old Glory
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 27 Jul 2025
In the early 1900s, and into the years between the world wars, thousands of young Filipino men enlisted in the United States Navy. Many sought work. Others sought a way out. Most were assigned to steward and mess du Read full story Champion Forever: A Century On, ‘The City By The Bay’ Honors Francisco Guilledo
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 15 Jul 2025
July 14, 2025, San Francisco, California --- Every ship that crossed the Pacific from the Philippines to San Francisco— long before and long after the iconic bridge— entered the city the same way…through t Read full story Guro Dan Inosanto: Guardian of the Filipino Fighting Spirit
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 27 Jun 2025
Marina del Rey, California (June 21, 2025)
Guro Dan Inosanto remains as sharp as the blades he’s mastered, and his presence still moves with the calm precision of someone who has studied rhythm all his life. At eighty- Read full story Sol Levinson: The Man Whose Gloves Elevated Boxing
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 06 May 2025
Behind every devastating punch is an organic hero— the gloves. Solomon “Sol” Levinson understood this better than anyone.
He set out to change the fight game by crafting the best fighter’s gloves possible.
In bo Read full story Dreamland: Where Filipino Fists Lit Up San Francisco Nights
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 28 Apr 2025
Before the condos and skyscrapers rose like silent monuments to the wealthy, before memory gave way to glass and steel, there was a place in San Francisco where fists, not fortunes, determined your worth.
A place called Read full story A Seat at the Table of Antonio Lopez Aldeguer: A Reminiscence
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 25 Apr 2025
On March 22, 2024—on the eve of the Gala of Champions—I met Antonio Lopez Aldeguer in person for the first time.
We sat quietly in the Ambassador Suite at the Manila Grand Opera Hotel. The celebration was still a day away Read full story Little Pancho: A Filipino Fighter in the Ring, an American Soldier to the End
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 17 Apr 2025
San Francisco Civic Auditorium – June 17, 1940
The air inside the auditorium was thick with tobacco smoke, anticipation, and something special. Filipino farmers, laborers, sailors, and immigrants leaned forward in Read full story 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
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