Violito Payla
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| Gold | Doha 2006 | Flyweight | |
Violito Payla (born 8 January 1979) is an amateur boxer from the Philippines best known to win the Asian Games 2006 at flyweight.
[edit] Career
At the Asian Games 2002 he beat Tulashboy Doniyorov but lost to Karim Nouman.
He competed at the 2004 Athens Olympics in the Flyweight (– 48kg) division but lost his bout in the round of 32 to Tulashboy Doniyorov of Uzbekistan, 36-26.
At the 2006 Asian Games he won the gold medal in the Flyweight division. He beat Yang Bo (boxer) who had beaten world champ Lee in the semis and upset 2003 world champion Somjit Jongjohor of Thailand in the final 31-15.[1]
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