Newly-crowned IBF light flyweight champion Brian Viloria will defend his title on August 29 at Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, Hawaii against Jesus Iribe of Mexico.

The Hawaiian Punch returns to fight in Honolulu after an absence of over 6 years.  He will go against Jesus “Azul” Iribe of Mexico, who hasn’t lost a fight since 2007.  Iribe is the current Federation of Boxing Commissions (Fecombox) light flyweight champion and ranked in the top 20 by the IBF.
Viloria has a record of 25 wins, 2 losses and 15 knockouts while, Iribe has a record of 15 wins, 5 losses and 5 knockout.

Check out this article from Filipinas Magazine about five young men based in New York who are really making it happen.

Deep foundation get in touch with their Filipino roots in “The First Draft,” their debut album. Members of the hip-hop group, Deep Foundation, stood beneath the elevated tracks of the Number 7 train in Queens on a recent Saturday afternoon. Temperatures hovered around freezing, but five heads—covered by stiff-brimmed baseball caps—formed a circle and leaned toward the pavement. “Yeah, I’m coming from the motherland, hot like PI summer, man,” rapped 23-year-old Ryan Abugan, known as Hydroponikz. “My swagger be New York but my blood was brewed in Q.C.!” The lines are from the group’s debut album, “The First Draft.” Deep Foundation, or DF, whose core members are all Filipino from New York and New Jersey, released the album late last year and has spent the first part of 2009 on a tour of West Coast cities.

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Ryan Conferido is a Filipino American bboy, best known for being a contestant on the first season of the United States dance competition television series, So You Think You Can Dance (2005).

Conferido started his own crew called Quest together with Hokuto “Hok” Konishi, Steve Terada, Victor Kim, Nick Teti, Brian Hirano & Aris Paracuelles. Ryan Conferido and his dance crew QUEST will be competing on the  Americas Best Dance Crew Season 3 Airing on MTV Januanry 15, 2009. Here are a couple of videos of  Quest and Ryan performing. check it out!