Francisco Guilledo 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.
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10 Facts About Francisco Guilledo
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Francisco Guilledo was born in Ilog, Negros Occidental, the son of a cowhand who abandoned his family when Francisco Guilledo was just six months old.
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Francisco Guilledo grew up in the hacienda of a wealthy local, helping his mother raise goats she tended on the farm.
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When Francisco Guilledo was 11, he sailed to Iloilo City to work as a bootblack.
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Francisco Guilledo fought his first professional fight in 1919 against Alberto Castro.
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Francisco Guilledo nearly gave up boxing after being spurned by a woman he courted, actually returning to Negros early in 1922 to retire.
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Francisco Guilledo accepted the invitation and sailed to America together with Churchill and Paquito Villa.
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Francisco Guilledo returned to his old haunts in Iloilo and his hometown in Negros Occidental.
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Francisco Guilledo was inducted belatedly into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1994, the second Filipino boxer so honored after Gabriel "Flash" Elorde, who was born nearly a decade after Villa's death.
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