Raysaldo Biagtan as a muay thai fighter. PHOTO COURTESY OF RAYSALDO BIAGTAN
A seasoned fighter and trainer, Raysaldo Biagtan is a native of Malabago, Mangaldan, Pangasinan. He won a muay thai championship in South Korea in 2001 and the Universal Reality Combat Championship (URCC) Dutdutan in Baguio in 2009. He is also a guro of cinco teros (literally “five strikes”), an old style of arnis-escrima endemic in Northern Luzon particularly in the province of Pangasinan.