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Before assuming office as a senator of the Phillippines, Manny Pacquiao was already known as a globally renowned boxer. Known to his fans as PacMan, he is the only boxer to have won world championships from the 1990s to the 2020s. BoxRec named him the world’s seventh-active boxer in 2020.
Nonito Donaire is a Filipino-American boxer who has held various world championship titles in several weight classes from featherweight to flyweight. The oldest boxer to earn a bantamweight world title, Donaire is also the first boxer in history to become three-time champion in bantamweight. Donaire is the sixth boxer to have held world championships in three successive decades.
Pancho Villa was a Filipino boxer best remembered as the first Asian to earn the World Flyweight Championship title in 1923. Counted among the greatest Flyweight boxers of all time, Villa was never knocked out during his boxing career. In 1994, Pancho Villa was posthumously inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
John Riel Casimero is a Filipino boxer and YouTuber. Casimero has held world championship titles in three weight divisions; he has held the IBF junior-flyweight title, the IBF flyweight title, and the WBO bantamweight title. Also a social media celebrity, John Riel Casimero took part in the Battle of the YouTubers tournament in 2021.
Jerwin Ancajas is a Filipino boxer who held the IBF junior-bantamweight title between 2016 and 2022. He has also held minor titles, such as the IBF Pan Pacific junior bantamweight title, WBO Asia Pacific Youth junior bantamweight title, and Philippines Luzon Professional Boxing Association bantamweight title.
Donnie Nietes is the longest-reigning Filipino boxing world champion. A quadruple champion, Nietes held the WBO mini-flyweight title, WBO junior-flyweight title, IBF flyweight title, and WBO junior-bantamweight title between 2007 and 2019. In 2015, Donnie Nietes was named Sportsman of the Year by the Philippine Sportswriters Association.
Romero Duno is a Filipino boxer who became the WBA Asia lightweight champion in 2019 after defeating India's Kuldeep Dhanda. Romero Duno has also won other championship titles, such as the WBC Youth Intercontinental lightweight title, WBC–ABC super featherweight title, and WBO Youth super featherweight title.
Mark Magsayo is a Filipino boxer best known for winning the WBC featherweight title in 2022. As of 2022, he is ranked the third best featherweight in the world by the TBRB and BoxRec and the second best featherweight by The Ring. In 2017, Mark Magsayo appeared in a documentary film titled Magnifico: Lakas ng Kamao.
Retired Filipino boxer Bobby Pacquiao, also known as The Sniper, for his boxing prowess, also has a significant basketball career, before he stepped into politics. Apart from being the councilor of General Santos, he has also represented the OFW Family Club in the Philippine House of Representatives.
Retired Filipino boxer Rustico Torrecampo soared to fame after he became the first man to beat legendary Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao, or PacMan. A wrist fracture later ended his career, after which he became a street-food vendor. He was once wanted in a case involving the murder of a truck driver.
One of the most successful Filipino boxers, Gabriel Elorde, also known as Flash, held the super featherweight title for a record 7 years. A cultural icon in the Philippines, he was also the face of San Miguel Beer. He was the first Asian boxer named to the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Drian Francisco is a Filipino boxer who competes in the Super Flyweight division. Renowned for his aggressive style and powerful punches, Francisco's style has been compared to that of former Filipino boxer Luisito Espinosa. Drian Francisco is currently working as an instructor at Singapore's Evolve Mixed Martial Arts.
