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STORY OF PHILIPPINE BOXING PART X: FLASH ELORDE, THE FIRST ASIAN INTERNATIONAL BOXING HALL OF FAMER
By Maloney L. Samaco, PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 11 Apr 2020


There were no world title bouts for Elorde after the loss to Sandy Saddler. But he was able to maintain his ranking as a world contender and won the Philippine and Orient Pacific Boxing Federation lightweight titles. He w
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STORY OF PHILIPPINE BOXING PART VI: SMALL MONTANA, ONE OF THE BEST TEN FILIPINO BOXERS BY ESPN
By Maloney L. Samaco, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 05 Apr 2020


Small Montana was born Benjamin Gan and was one of the world boxing champions from the Philippines. Montana stood 5 feet and 4 inch tall and did not weigh more than 112 pounds. He won the Flyweight Championship of the World
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STORY OF PHILIPPINE BOXING PART IV: PANCHO VILLA'S UNTIMELY DEATH
By Maloney L. Samaco, PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 02 Apr 2020


Pancho Villa successfully defended his world flyweight title four times over two years, inserting some non-title fights. It remained in his hands and never relinquished it until his death two years later. Before returnin
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Remembering PH Boxing's Unsung Heroes: Part 3 - Featuring Johnny Jamito
By Teodoro Medina Reynoso, PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 01 Apr 2020


Johnny Jamito. They never won world boxing championships, some even did not get the chance to fight for one. But during their prime, they were our pambato, our best bet in their respective divisions who carried with them our hop
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Remembering PH Boxing's Unsung Heroes Special Sports Series (Second of Five Parts)
By Teodoro Medina Reynoso, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 31 Mar 2020


Ric Magramo. They never won world boxing championships, some even did not get the chance to fight for one. But during their prime, they were our pambato, our best bet in their respective divisions who carried with them our
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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