ED C. TOLENTINO
Six months ago, Filipino prospect ‘King’ Arthur Villanueva took on speedster Zolani Tete of South Africa and dropped a lopsided 12-round decision. Officially, the fight was only for the interim World Boxing Organization (WBO) bantamweight (118 lbs.) championship, but Tete was eventually promoted to regular champion after Filipino Marlon Tapales was stripped of the regular title for showing up overweight in a title defense against Shohei Omori.