Not only was he the first pinoy champ but also the first asian world boxing champ by a long shot. While most other asian champions emerged after WWII mostly around 1950's, we had our first world champ in the 1920's. Why's that? It's cuz them yankee bastards (I mean 'nice' bastards) showed us pinoys some bad examples, like this human cockfighting called boxing. (FYI, Philippines was the only colony US have ever had. So now you know why there's pinoys all over the net pretending to speak English.)
Villa's record makes (who's that?) Smokey Robinson's (?
) record pale in comparison. Villa already had 100 fights in 5-6 years of boxing career while it took 25 years for Robinson to achieve his 170+ fight record. Alright now, kiddos, let's not start some stupid argument here. :P
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for helping give recognition to this lesser known pinoy boxer. As a matter of fact, most pinoy don't know him either, except within the small boxing circle.
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Re: First Ever Filipino Boxing World Champion
Originally Posted by penalosafan
Not only was he the first pinoy champ but also the first asian world boxing champ by a long shot. While most other asian champions emerged after WWII mostly around 1950's, we had our first world champ in the 1920's. Why's that? It's cuz them yankee bastards (I mean 'nice' bastards) showed us pinoys some bad examples, like this human cockfighting called boxing. (FYI, Philippines was the only colony US have ever had. So now you know why there's pinoys all over the net pretending to speak English.)
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