In the Philippines, boxing is considered one of its most popular sports together with basketball due to the history of Spaniards and Americans coming to the Philippines. The country has produced an overall 45 major world champions in different weight divisions. As a Filipino, you should be proud of that.

Here are the top 10 Filipino boxers of all time

1. 1. Small Montana

      Benjamin Jamito Gan is known professionally as Small Montana, was a Filipino boxer. Montana, who stood 5 feet and 4 inches (163 cm) tall and never weighed more than 112 pounds, won the Flyweight Championship of the World as recognized by New York state.

      Real name: Benjamin Jamito Gan

      Born: February 24, 1913 Bacolod, Negros Occidental, Philippines

      Weight(s): Flyweight

      Height: 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)

      Stance: Southpaw

      Died: August 4, 1976 (aged 63) La Carlota, Negros Occidental, Philippines

      Boxing record

      Wins: 83

      Wins by KO: 18

      Losses: 24

      Draws: 10

      Total fights: 118

   2. Dodie Boy Peñalosa

      Dodie Boy Peñalosa (born November 19, 1962) is a former Filipino professional boxer who won the IBF light flyweight and flyweight titles. Diosdado “Dodie Boy” Peñalosa is Gerry’s older brother.

      Born: November 19, 1962 (age 61) San Carlos, Negros Occidental, Philippines

      Nickname: Dodie Boy

      Weight: Light flyweight Flyweight Super flyweight

      Height: 5 ft 5 in (165 cm)

      Stance: Southpaw

      Boxing record

      Wins: 31

      Wins by KO: 13

      Losses: 7

      Draws: 3

      No contests: 1

      Total fights: 42

   3. Luisito Espinosa

      Luisito Pio Espinosa is a Filipino former professional boxer who competed between 1984 and 2005. He is a world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBA bantamweight title from 1989 to 1991 and the WBC featherweight title between 1995 and 1999.

      Born: June 26, 1967 (age 57) Tondo, Manila, Philippines

      Nickname: Lindol ("Earthquake")

      Weight(s): Bantamweight Featherweight Super featherweight

      Height: 5 ft 7.5 in (1.71 m)

      Stance: Orthodox

      Boxing record

      Wins: 47

      Wins by KO: 26

      Losses: 13

      Total fights: 60

   4. Pancho Villa

      1st ever Filipino to become a world champion. Francisco Villaruel Guilledo more commonly known as Pancho Villa was a Filipino professional boxer. Villa, who stood only 5 feet and 1 inch (154 cm) tall and never weighed more than 114 pounds (51 kg), despite the racial discrimination of that time, rose from obscurity to become the first Asian to win the World Flyweight Championship in 1923, earning the reputation in some quarters as one of the greatest Flyweight boxers in history. He was never knocked out in his entire boxing career, which ended with his sudden death at only twenty-three from complications following a tooth extraction.

      Born: August 1, 1901 Ilog, Negros Occidental, Philippines

      Nickname: Pancho Villa, Filipino Whirlwind , Little Brown Boy

      Weight(s): Flyweight

      Height: 5 ft 1 in (154 cm)

      Stance: Orthodox

      Died: 14 July 1925 (aged 23) San Francisco, California, U.S.

      Boxing record

      Wins: 89

      Wins by KO: 22

      Losses: 8

      Draws: 4

      Total fights: 103

   5. Ceferino Garcia

      Ceferino Montano Garcia was a champion boxer born in Naval, Biliran, Philippines. He holds the most victories ever achieved by a Filipino boxer and is also the only boxer from the Philippines to become world champion in the middleweight division.

      Born: August 26, 1906 Naval, Biliran, Philippine Islands

      Nickname: Bolo Punch Pedro

      Weight(s): Middleweight

      Height: 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)

      Stance: Orthodox

      Died: January 1, 1981 (aged 74) San Diego, California, United States

      Boxing record

      Wins: 120

      Wins by KO: 76

      Losses: 30

      Draws: 14

      Total fights: 164

   6. Gerry Peñalosa

      The most technical boxer in the Philippines. Geronimo “Fearless” 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 and lineal super-flyweight titles from 1997 to 1998, and the WBO bantamweight title from 2007 to 2009.

      Born: August 7, 1972 (age 52) San Carlos, Negros Occidental, Philippines

      Nickname: Fearless

      Weight(s): Light flyweight Super flyweight Bantamweight Super bantamweight

      Height: 5 ft 4 in (163 cm)

      Stance: Southpaw

      Boxing record

      Wins: 55

      Wins by KO: 37

      Losses: 8

      Draws: 2

      Total fights: 65

   7. Donnie Nietes

      Donnie Liboon Nietes is a Filipino professional boxer. He is a world champion in four weight classes, having previously held the WBO mini-flyweight title from 2007 to 2011; the WBO and The Ring magazine junior-flyweight titles between 2011 and 2016; the IBF flyweight title from 2017 to 2018; and the WBO junior-bantamweight title from 2018 to 2019.[2] He is the longest-reigning Filipino boxing world champion, surpassing in 2014 the record set in 1967 by Boxing Hall of Fame inductee Gabriel “Flash” Elorde. He was one of the first three Asian fighters with world titles in at least four weight classes alongside fellow Filipinos Manny Pacquiao and Nonito Donaire.

      Born: May 12, 1982 (age 42) Murcia, Negros Occidental, Philippines

      Nickname: Ahas (Snake)

      Weight(s): Mini-flyweight Junior-flyweight Flyweight Junior-bantamweight

      Height: 5 ft 3 in (160 cm)

      Boxing record

      Wins: 43

      Wins by KO: 23

      Losses: 1

      Draws: 6

      Total fights: 50

   8. Flash Elorde

      Gabriel “Flash” Elorde was a Filipino professional boxer. Before Manny Pacquiao took the boxing world by storm, he was widely regarded as the best Filipino boxer in history. 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 in the super featherweight division for the longest title reign, spanning seven years. Wikipedia

      Born: March 25, 1935 Bogo, Cebu, Philippine Islands

      Nickname: Flash

      Weight(s): Bantamweight Featherweight Super featherweight Lightweight

      Height: 5 ft 5+1⁄2 in (166 cm)

      Stance: Southpaw

      Died: January 2, 1985 (aged 49) Quezon City, Philippines

      Boxing record

      Wins: 89

      Wins by KO: 33

      Losses: 27

      Draws: 2

      Total fights: 118

   9. Nonito Donaire

      Nonito Gonzales Donaire Jr. is another Filipino professional boxer who was born in the Philippines but grew up in the United States. He has held multiple world championships in four weight classes from flyweight to featherweight, including the WBC bantamweight title since May 2021.

      Born: November 16, 1982 (age 41)

      Nickname: The Filipino Flash

      Weight(s): Flyweight Super flyweight Bantamweight Super bantamweight Featherweight

      Height: 5 ft 6 in (168 cm)

      Stance: Orthodox

      Boxing record

      Wins: 42

      Wins by KO: 28

      Losses: 6

      Total fights: 48

   10. Manny Pacquiao

       Manny Pacquiao is the only boxer in history to have won twelve major world titles across eight weight classes.

       Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao Sr. is a Filipino politician and former professional boxer. Pacquiao is regarded as one of the greatest professional boxers of all time. He has been serving as a senator of the Philippines since 2016 and running for Presidency in the 2022 May 9 election in his country. Wikipedia

       Born: December 17, 1978 (age 45) Kibawe, Bukidnon

       Nickname: Pacman

       Weight(s): Flyweight Super bantamweight Featherweight Super featherweight Lightweight Light welterweight Welterweight Light middleweight

       Height: 5 ft 5+1⁄2 in (166 cm)

       Stance: Southpaw

       Boxing record

       Wins: 62

       Wins by KO: 39

       Losses: 8

       Draws: 2

       Total fights: 72

See Also

• Top 10 Best Filipino MMA Fighters
• Top 10 PBA Players of All Time
• 10 Famous Celebrities with Filipino Ancestry

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