Rolando Navarrete is a Filipino former professional boxer who competed from 1973 to 1991. He held the WBC super featherweight title from August 1981 and May 1982.
Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao is a Filipino politician,businessman,former professional basketball player and former professional boxer. Nicknamed "PacMan",he is widely regarded as one of the greatest professional boxers of all time. He previously served as a senator of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022.
Gabriel "Flash" Elorde was a Filipino professional boxer. He won the lineal super featherweight title in 1960. In 1963,he won the inaugural WBC and WBA super featherweight titles. He holds the record at super featherweight division for the longest title reign,spanning seven years. Elorde is considered one of the best Filipino boxers of all time along with eight-division champion Manny Pacquiao and Pancho Villa,flyweight champion in the 1920s. He was much beloved in the Philippines as a sports and cultural icon,being the first Filipino international boxing champion since middleweight champion Ceferino Garcia.
Brian Viloria is a retired American professional boxer of Filipino descent. He is a former unified WBA and WBO flyweight champion,as well as a former WBC and IBF light flyweight champion. His nickname of "The Hawaiian Punch" was first given to him by Jesus Salud,a fellow Hawaiian of Filipino descent and himself a former world champion in boxing.
Luisito Pio Espinosa is a Filipino actor and former professional boxer who competed from 1984 to 2005. He is a world champion in two weight classes,having held the World Boxing Association (WBA) bantamweight title from 1989 to 1991 and the World Boxing Council (WBC) featherweight title from 1995 to 1999.
Nonito Gonzales Donaire Jr. is a Filipino American professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in four weight classes from flyweight to featherweight,and is the oldest boxer in history to win a bantamweight world title,as well as being the first three-time champion in that weight class. Donaire has also held world championships in three consecutive decades:the 2000s,2010s and 2020s,being the sixth boxer to do so after Evander Holyfield,Manny Pacquiao,Bernard Hopkins,Erik Morales,and Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Geronimo "Gerry" J. Peñalosa is a Filipino former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2010. He is a two-weight world champion,having held the WBC super-flyweight title from 1997 to 1998,and the WBO bantamweight title from 2007 to 2009. Originally from the city of San Carlos,Negros Occidental,Peñalosa currently resides in Manila. He was trained mainly by Freddie Roach,and went on to become a boxing trainer himself after retirement. Peñalosa's older brother,Dodie Boy Peñalosa,is also a former boxer and world champion.
Chatchai Sasakul is a Thai former professional boxer who competed between 1991 and 2008. He held the WBC flyweight title from May 1997 to December 1998. Aside from being a professional boxer,he is also a practitioner in snooker. In addition to Chatchai Singwangcha,his other ring names include Chatchai Elite Gym,Chatchai Kratingdaenggym,Chatchai 3-K Battery,Chatchai Dutch Boy Gym depending on the sponsors for each occasion.
Shawn Christian Porter is an American sports commentator and former professional boxer who competed from 2008 to 2021. He was a two-time welterweight world champion,having held the IBF title from 2013 to 2014 and the WBC title from 2018 to 2019. Porter was particularly known for his aggressive pressure fighting style,physical strength,chin,and high workrate.
Juanito Rubillar is a Filipino former professional boxer and WBC Continental Americas light flyweight champions.
Sylvester Lopez is a Filipino professional boxer who is the current WBC Silver Super Flyweight Champion and is also the former WBC International Super Flyweight Champion.
The history of boxing in the Philippines is the history of boxing and the evolution and progress of the sport in the Philippines. In the Philippines,boxing is one of its most popular sports,together with basketball,due to the many accolades it has brought to the country,having produced 45 major world champions,one of the most in the world. Despite not having won a gold medal in boxing,the Philippines has had multiple Olympic standouts,with 10 out of its 18 total Olympic medals coming from boxing,along with some of the greatest fighters in the history of the sport. Filipino greats like Pancho Villa and Flash Elorde are members of the two highly respected boxing hall of fames –International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF) and World Boxing Hall of Fame (WBHF) thus,giving the Philippines the most number of boxing hall of fame members out of Asia.
Jonathan Inguito Taconing is a Filipino boxer. He is a former light flyweight champion of the Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation,and the current International light flyweight champion of the World Boxing Council,a title he already once held in his career,from 2010-2012. He and Mark Magsayo were named the Most Promising Boxers of the Year at the 2016 Elorde Boxing Awards. Taconing is trained by former Filipino professional boxer Eddie Ballaran and under the management of Johnny Elorde.
Neil Ocampo,was a Filipino anchorman,self-styled as the 'Total News-Tertainer' in the Philippine radio broadcast industry. He is known for his long morning introduction of "Magandang magandang magandang... umaga po!" and popularized the theme from Hawaii Five O which became his radio program's signature tune.
The following is a list of notable events and developments that are related to Philippine sports in 2017.
Manny Pacquiao competed in professional boxing from 1995 to 2021. Regarded by boxing historians as one of the greatest professional boxers of all time,Pacquiao is the only boxer in history to win twelve major world titles in eight different weight divisions. He is also the first boxer in history to win the lineal championship in five different weight divisions,as well as being the first boxer in history to win major world titles in four of the original eight weight divisions of boxing,also known as the "glamour divisions":flyweight,featherweight,lightweight and welterweight.
Errol Spence Jr. vs. Shawn Porter was a professional boxing welterweight championship unification match contested between IBF champion Errol Spence Jr. and WBC champion Shawn Porter. The event took place on September 28,2019 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles,California. Spence Jr. won the fight via split decision,with two scorecards reading 116–111 for Spence Jr.,and the third 115–112 for Porter.
Manny Pacquiao vs. Yordenis Ugás,billed as "The Legend vs. The Olympian",was a welterweight professional boxing match contested between former eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao,and WBA (Super) champion Yordenis Ugás. The bout took place on August 21,2021,at the T-Mobile Arena in Paradise,Nevada,U.S. This was Manny Pacquiao's final boxing match before his retirement later that year.
Davemark Cereno Apolinario is a Filipino professional boxer. He is a former IBO Flyweight champion.
Ireneo "Rene" Barrientos is a Filipino former professional boxer. He competed from 1962 to 1978 and held the WBC Lightweight and Jr. Lightweight title in 1969.
