Filipino

Luisito Pio Espinosa is a Filipino former world champion who held major titles at bantamweight and featherweight. His professional career ran from 1984 to 2005....

Muangchai Kittikasem is a Thai former professional boxer and a two-division world champion. He won the IBF light-flyweight title in 1989 and later captured…...

Little Dado was the ring name of Eleuterio Zapanta, a Filipino boxer born in La Carlota, Negros Occidental. He competed mainly at flyweight and bantamweight…...

Brian “The Hawaiian Punch” Viloria unified the WBO and WBA flyweight championships on November 17, 2012, stopping Hernán Márquez in the tenth round in Los Angeles. The result crowned a professional career that had already produced world titles at light flyweight....

Pancho Villa, born Francisco Guilledo in Ilog, Negros Occidental, Philippines, became the first Filipino boxer to win a world championship. His relentless…...

Erbito C. Salavarria was a Filipino flyweight champion who held the WBC crown in 1970–71 and the WBA title in 1975–76. Born in Manila, he turned…...

Vic Darchinyan is an Armenian former professional boxer, born in Vanadzor in 1976. He became a world champion at flyweight and super flyweight, building a…...

Donnie “Ahas” Nietes built one of the longest championship careers in Filipino boxing. Across nearly two decades at the top level, the boxer from Negros…...

Joseph Robert Loscalzo of South Philadelphia made his professional debut as a teenager in 1925. Known in the ring as Midget Wolgast, he became one of the…...

Mateo Handig is a Filipino boxer from Samar who competed at minimumweight. He is nicknamed the “Waray Warrior.” Records and contemporary reports highlight…...

Marco John “Pacific Cyclone” Rementizo is a Filipino minimumweight boxer from Cagayan de Oro City. On March 16, 2024, he challenged China’s Dianxing Zhu for…...

Filipino boxer Eric Jamili became the first Filipino to win a WBO world title when he stopped Britain’s Mickey Cantwell in the eighth round in London on…...

Japanese boxer Keitaro Hoshino became WBA minimumweight champion in December 2000 with a unanimous decision over Joma Gamboa....

Thai boxer Fahlan Sakkreerin Jr. stopped former WBA minimumweight champion Ryo Miyazaki in the third round in Osaka on December 31, 2013....

Michael ‘Wildcard’ Landero won the vacant OPBF minimumweight championship in Osaka on May 9, 2010. The Filipino boxer stopped Kenichi Horikawa in the ninth round, converting an overseas opportunity into a regional title at 105 pounds....

Joey Canoy is a Filipino boxer from General Santos City. On December 4, 2022, he stopped Japan’s Kenichi Horikawa in the seventh round in Osaka to win the…...

ArAr Andales is a Filipino minimumweight boxer who challenged Thailand’s Knockout CP Freshmart for the WBA world title in Nakhon Sawan on August 2, 2019....

Samuel “Silent Assassin” Salva is a Filipino minimumweight boxer from Iligan City. In August 2019, the Philippine News Agency reported that he was…...

Pedro Taduran is a Filipino minimumweight who won the vacant IBF world title in 2019, stopping Samuel Salva after four rounds....

Edito “Ala” Villamor was a Filipino minimumweight contender who challenged for world titles in the 1990s. He fought IBF champion Ratanapol Sor Vorapin in…...