Pancho Villa
Filipino boxer (1901-1925)
パンチョ・ビラ
- Born
- 1 August 1901, Ilog
- Died
- 14 July 1925, San Francisco
- Citizenship
- Philippines
- Sport
- boxing
- Discipline
- flyweight
- Occupation
- boxer
- Height
- 154 cm (5 ft 1 in)
- Weight
- 51 kg (112 lb)
- Recorded fight record
- 73 wins, 5 losses, 4 draws
Francisco Villaruel Guilledo (August 1, 1901 – July 14, 1925), 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. Villa is widely regarded as one of the greatest Filipino boxers of all time alongside Manny Pacquiao and Gabriel Elorde. 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.
Awards and honours
- International Boxing Hall of Fame 1994
- The Ring World Flyweight Champion
- WBA World Flyweight Champion
External links
Facts from Wikidata Q918853 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.