ANG KALATAS NEWSMAGAZINE
Volume 8 Number 10 • JULY 2018
TWO pugilists were out to prove this month in Australia that Filipino
fighting prowess came in equal doses for male and female competitors.
Both are multi-award-winning boxing champions, the only difference being
one holds titles in the amateur ranks, the other in the pros. At press-time,
Western Sydney lightweight Jayden Buan, 16, was to take on Canberra’s
Dylan Hadley for the 'global' belt at the Roma function centre in Liverpool
NSW on Friday, July 6. On Sunday, July 29, Palawan’s Sydney-based
Gretchen ‘Chen-Chen’ Abaniel, 23, goes for the World Boxing Organisation
(WBO) light-flyweight title against Tenkai Tsunami of Japan in Okinawa, But
what about their string of trophies and championships?
Full story on page 03
A DOSE OF FILIPINO
GENDER EQUALITY