{"id":132475,"date":"2025-09-10T00:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T00:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/132475\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T00:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T00:24:07","slug":"upside-down-boxing-match-at-pinyahan-festival-in-south-cotabato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/132475\/","title":{"rendered":"Upside-down boxing match at Pinyahan Festival in South Cotabato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.interaksyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/boxing-kawayan.jpg\" data-caption=\"Boxing match at Pinyahan Festival in South Cotabato, (Newsflare via Reuters Connect)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"lazyload entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/boxing-kawayan-640x426.jpg\"  data- alt=\"\" title=\"boxing-kawayan\"\/><\/a>Boxing match at Pinyahan Festival in South Cotabato, (Newsflare via Reuters Connect)<\/p>\n<p>An online user shared a video of a lively attraction at this year\u2019s Pinayahn Festival in Polomolok, South Cotabato.<\/p>\n<p>On September 1,\u00a0Angel Faith Badilles \u2013 Aguillon\u00a0(@angelfaith.guiritanbadilles) shared a video showing two men face off in a playful yet competitive boxing match while hanging upside down from a horizontal bamboo pole.<\/p>\n<p>They cling tightly and exchange punches until one loses his grip and drops into the foam padding below.<\/p>\n<p>The last man holding on is declared the winner, with the intense match carrying on despite the heavy rain, adding extra thrill to the spectacle.<\/p>\n<p>The host could be heard cheering on the boxers, saying they can endure the rain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUlan ka lang, Pinoy kami,\u201d the host said.<\/p>\n<p>Aguillon shared a series of these boxing matches dubbed \u201cBoksing sa Kawayan\u201d on her social media account.<\/p>\n<p>She also added the hashtag #RainorShine in the video caption.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2014Rosette Adel;\u00a0Newsflare via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"#openweb-ads-conversation\" id=\"openweb-count-icon\" class=\"openweb-count-icon\"><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boxing match at Pinyahan Festival in South Cotabato, (Newsflare via Reuters Connect) An online user shared a video&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-132475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}