US-based Cedeño in the gallery

Remember Frank Cedeño?

The former WBC flyweight champion from Cebu now based in Los Angeles, California was among prominent boxing figures who keenly watched the Manny Pacquiao-Oscar Larios fight.

Cedeño, among the Filipinos who ruled the boxing world in the 1980s, is in the country to fetch daughter Reynalyn whom he has petitioned for migration in the US.

Now sporting a clean pate and a little heavy at mid-section, Cedeño, 48, is happy with the current plight of boxing in the country.

"Salamat kay Manny, binigyan niya ng sigla ang boxing natin," said Cedeño, who himself made the nation proud when he disposed of Charlie Magne in a stunning upset to win the WBC flyweight championship in 1983.

His reign then didn’t last long, though, as he lost his first defense against Koji Kabayashi.

He retired at 31 then tried his luck in the US. — Nelson Beltran