Fil-Am Rising Boxing Star Arnold Dinong Making His Mark in Professional Boxing

This past July, Filipino American boxer Arnold Dinong made his pay-per-view fight debut in California, which he won with a unanimous decision, improving his record to an impressive 7-0 with 1 KO.

Born and raised in Ewa Beach, Dinong moved to Daly City, California in 2014 to pursue professional boxing. He made his professional debut in 2018.

Although he only started two years ago, the 26-year-old started boxing as young as age 8 at the Waipahu Boxing Club. He admits he didn’t like boxing at first.

“My dad introduced me to the sport because it was a dream of his to be a boxer. That didn’t happen because my grandpa (his dad) didn’t want to sign papers for him to compete in the ring,” Dinong shared.

“I was 8 years old when I started and I didn’t really like boxing, I just did it because my dad wanted me to. But once I hit the age of 13-14 years old I started to like it a lot.”

Full article published on Hawaii Filipino Chronicle, a local English-language Filipino newspaper in Honolulu, Hawaii.