title: History of boxing in the Philippines
Suntukan
Boigu Island (Queensland)
Long Island Association
Badu Island
American Football Wellington
Turnagain Island (Queensland)
Ratsada 24 Oras
Negros Island Region
TV Patrol Negros
sentences: The history of boxing in the Philippines is the history of boxing and the evolution and progress of the sport in the Philippines.
 In the Philippines, boxing is considered a famous sport together with basketball, despite of the glories and honors it brought to the country, having produced Olympic standouts, professional world champions and some of the greatest fighters in the history of the sport.
 The Philippines has yet to win an Olympic gold medal but amateur boxing has given the country more medals in the Summer Olympics than any sport with 5 out of its 9 total medals.
 On the other hand, professional boxing have produced 40 major world champions (including those of Filipino heritage), one of the most in the world.
 Filipino greats like Pancho Villa, Flash Elorde and Ceferino Garcia are members of the two highly respected boxing hall of fames - International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF) and World Boxing Hall of Fame (WBHF).
 Thus, giving the Philippines the most number of boxing hall of fame members out of Asia.
Suntukan is the fist-related striking component of Filipino martial arts.
 (The term "suntukan" however is most commonly known in the Philippines to simply mean punching or boxing.)
 In the central Philippine island region of Visayas, it is known as Pangamot or Pakamot.
 It is also known as Mano-mano and often referred to in Western martial arts circles of Inosanto lineage as Panantukan.
 Although it is also called Filipino Boxing, this article pertains to the Filipino martial art and should not be confused with the Western sport of Boxing as practiced in the Philippines.
Boigu Island (also known as Malu Kiyay or Malu Kiwai ) is the most northerly inhabited island of Queensland and of Australia.
 It is part of the top-western group of the Torres Strait Islands, which lie in the Torres Strait separating Cape York Peninsula from the island of New Guinea.
 The mainland of Papua New Guinea is only 6 km away from Boigu.
 Boigu has an area of 89.6 km2 .
 Boigu is also the name of the town and Boigu Island is tha name of the locality on the island within the Torres Strait Island Region.
The Long Island Association (LIA) is the leading business organization in the Long Island region.
 The LIA's members are small and large businesses, technology and manufacturing companies, universities, financial service firms, banks, credit unions, hospitals, media companies and sole proprietors, which together employ two thirds of Long Island's workforce.The LIA is the largest and oldest group within the business lobby of Long Island, New York.
 Four archived "New York Times" stories from the 1920s preserve the LIA’s rhapsodic early efforts to promote business relocation from New York City.
 The LIA website’s history section states: Incorporated on July 26, 1926 as the Long Island Chamber of Commerce, the LIA still today takes its mission very seriously: "To support growth, economic development and infrastructure investments on Long Island and to advocate for tax reforms and regulatory relief to improve the local economy and strengthen our business community."
 The LIA’s own headquarters remained in Manhattan until 1949.
 It is now based in Melville.
Badu Island (Mulgrave Island) is an island 60 km north of Thursday Island, Queensland, Australia in the Torres Strait.
 Badu Island is also a locality in the Torres Strait Island Region, and Badu is the only town, located on the south-east coast.
American Football Wellington, abbreviated AFW, is the governing body for American Football (Gridiron) in Wellington, New Zealand.
 Formerly known as the American Football Southern Conference (AFSC), it was officially established in 1996 to govern the sport of American football in the Wellington and greater lower North Island region.
 The league generally runs from November through February ending with two teams competing for the Capital Bowl championship game.
 The AFW is an affiliate member of the New Zealand American Football Federation (NZAFF), which governs the sport of American Football in New Zealand.
Turnagain, also called Buru Island, is an island of the "Western Islands" region of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago, located in the northern section of Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia.
 Turnagain is located within the Torres Strait Island Region Local government area.
Ratsada 24 Oras, formerly Ratsada and 24 Oras Western Visayas, was a Philippine regional news program aired over GMA Iloilo.
 It provides news and features around Iloilo City and Province of the same name and the rest of Western Visayas and Negros Island Region (particularly Bacolod City).
 The newscast airs every Monday to Friday 5:00 to 5:45 pm with its broadcast center located at MacArthur Drive, Jaro, Iloilo City.
 It is also heard on a slightly delayed basis through DYSI 1323 AM and simulcast over GMA Channel 2 Kalibo and GMA Channel 5 Roxas live.
 The newscast's anchors are Gerthrode Charlotte Tan and Atty. Jobert Peñaflorida (a former news anchor of TV Patrol Panay on ABS-CBN Iloilo).
 "Ratsada 24 Oras" has covered the entire Western Visayas and Negros Island Region and has increased its ability to provide comprehensive, effective and reliable news gathering.
The Negros Island Region, (Hiligaynon: "Rehiyon sang Pulo sang Negros" ; Cebuano: "Rehiyon sa Pulo sa Negros" ; Filipino: "Rehiyon ng Pulo ng Negros" ), also abbreviated and officially designated as NIR (unofficially "Region XVIII"), was an administrative region in the Philippines which comprised the provinces of Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental both of which are part of the island of Negros.
 It existed from May 29, 2015 to August 9, 2017 and was then the 18th region of the Philippines.
TV Patrol Negros is the local news program of the ABS-CBN Regional Network Group in Negros Island Region.
 The newscast is a tabloid-style format.
 The program delivers news headlines in the Hiligaynon language about the current events in Bacolod City and Negros Occidental, as it was removed from Western Visayas to form the Negros Island Region, along with Negros Oriental from Central Visayas.

Question: Question: What Island region in the Phillipines is known for it's prowess in the Olympics in a sport? 

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 The history of boxing in the Philippines is the history of boxing and the evolution and progress of the sport in the Philippines.
 In the Philippines, boxing is considered a famous sport together with basketball, despite of the glories and honors it brought to the country, having produced Olympic standouts, professional world champions and some of the greatest fighters in the history of the sport.
 The Philippines has yet to win an Olympic gold medal but amateur boxing has given the country more medals in the Summer Olympics than any sport with 5 out of its 9 total medals.
 On the other hand, professional boxing have produced 40 major world champions (including those of Filipino heritage), one of the most in the world.
 Filipino greats like Pancho Villa, Flash Elorde and Ceferino Garcia are members of the two highly respected boxing hall of fames - International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF) and World Boxing Hall of Fame (WBHF).
 Thus, giving the Philippines the most number of boxing hall of fame members out of Asia. 

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 Suntukan is the fist-related striking component of Filipino martial arts.
 (The term "suntukan" however is most commonly known in the Philippines to simply mean punching or boxing.)
 In the central Philippine island region of Visayas, it is known as Pangamot or Pakamot.
 It is also known as Mano-mano and often referred to in Western martial arts circles of Inosanto lineage as Panantukan.
 Although it is also called Filipino Boxing, this article pertains to the Filipino martial art and should not be confused with the Western sport of Boxing as practiced in the Philippines. 

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 The Long Island Association (LIA) is the leading business organization in the Long Island region.
 The LIA's members are small and large businesses, technology and manufacturing companies, universities, financial service firms, banks, credit unions, hospitals, media companies and sole proprietors, which together employ two thirds of Long Island's workforce.The LIA is the largest and oldest group within the business lobby of Long Island, New York.
 Four archived "New York Times" stories from the 1920s preserve the LIA’s rhapsodic early efforts to promote business relocation from New York City.
 The LIA website’s history section states: Incorporated on July 26, 1926 as the Long Island Chamber of Commerce, the LIA still today takes its mission very seriously: "To support growth, economic development and infrastructure investments on Long Island and to advocate for tax reforms and regulatory relief to improve the local economy and strengthen our business community."
 The LIA’s own headquarters remained in Manhattan until 1949.
 It is now based in Melville. 

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 Badu Island (Mulgrave Island) is an island 60 km north of Thursday Island, Queensland, Australia in the Torres Strait.
 Badu Island is also a locality in the Torres Strait Island Region, and Badu is the only town, located on the south-east coast. 

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 American Football Wellington, abbreviated AFW, is the governing body for American Football (Gridiron) in Wellington, New Zealand.
 Formerly known as the American Football Southern Conference (AFSC), it was officially established in 1996 to govern the sport of American football in the Wellington and greater lower North Island region.
 The league generally runs from November through February ending with two teams competing for the Capital Bowl championship game.
 The AFW is an affiliate member of the New Zealand American Football Federation (NZAFF), which governs the sport of American Football in New Zealand. 

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 Turnagain, also called Buru Island, is an island of the "Western Islands" region of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago, located in the northern section of Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia.
 Turnagain is located within the Torres Strait Island Region Local government area. 

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 Ratsada 24 Oras, formerly Ratsada and 24 Oras Western Visayas, was a Philippine regional news program aired over GMA Iloilo.
 It provides news and features around Iloilo City and Province of the same name and the rest of Western Visayas and Negros Island Region (particularly Bacolod City).
 The newscast airs every Monday to Friday 5:00 to 5:45 pm with its broadcast center located at MacArthur Drive, Jaro, Iloilo City.
 It is also heard on a slightly delayed basis through DYSI 1323 AM and simulcast over GMA Channel 2 Kalibo and GMA Channel 5 Roxas live.
 The newscast's anchors are Gerthrode Charlotte Tan and Atty. Jobert Peñaflorida (a former news anchor of TV Patrol Panay on ABS-CBN Iloilo).
 "Ratsada 24 Oras" has covered the entire Western Visayas and Negros Island Region and has increased its ability to provide comprehensive, effective and reliable news gathering. 

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 TV Patrol Negros is the local news program of the ABS-CBN Regional Network Group in Negros Island Region.
 The newscast is a tabloid-style format.
 The program delivers news headlines in the Hiligaynon language about the current events in Bacolod City and Negros Occidental, as it was removed from Western Visayas to form the Negros Island Region, along with Negros Oriental from Central Visayas. 

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Answer: Visayas