Former amateur standout Dodie Boy Pe?alosa Jr hopes to keep the championship line in the family going when he squares off with Jeffrey Jimenez in only his fifth bout as a professional at the Cebu Coliseum on June 25 in Cebu City.
Bantamweight Dodie Boy Jr is so far unbeaten and has stopped all his previous four opponents inside the distance, three of them in the first round.
The young Pe?alosa is the namesake of former world flyweight champion Dodie Boy Sr and nephew of recently retired former world bantamweight champion Gerry Pe?alosa.
His father and uncle are the only Filipino boxing brothers to capture world boxing titles and in two different weight divisions at that.
The younger Pe?alosa quit a promising amateur career that would have given him a chance at going for the gold in the London Olympics next year.
Instead, he is following a family tradition in professional boxing.
His grandfather Carl Pe?alosa was a former world contender in the light welterweight ranks and once held the Philippine lightweight title.
Gerry Pe?alosa said he is helping his nephew in his quest for boxing glory after making a name for himself in boxing by becoming one of the most technically-gifted and feared boxers to emerge from Asia.
Gerry is now promoting and managing several professional boxers but he said Dodie Boy Jr is under the wings of his older brother Dodie Boy Sr.
Also seeing action in the boxing card is another prospect Renren Tesorio of Pe?alosa Boxing Gym who is undefeated in six professional fights and Philippine No. 3 bantamweight Marvin Mabait of Zamboanga City who will go up against RP No. 10 Aljun Salogaol over ten rounds.
Gerry said the rest of the card will be announced later.
?My kumpare Hon. Rep. Manny Pacquiao and old friend Kasuke Washio is helping me in the promotion,? said Pe?alosa who also disclosed that long time sponsor Family Rubbing alcohol is also backing his boxing card.
Gerry decided to hang up the gloves after a professional career that spanned 21 years and 65 professional fights. He accumulated a record of 55 wins against only eight losses and two draws.
He captured the World Boxing Council super flyweight title in 1997 against Hiroshi Kawashima in Japan and defended the title three times before yielding it to In-Joo Cho in Korea in a controversial hometown decision.
Gerry bounced back by capturing his second world boxing title by dethroning World Boxing Organization bantamweight champion Jhonny Gonzales ten years later in 2007.
He unsuccessfully tried to win his third world boxing crown by giving up his only stoppage loss against former super bantamweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez.
