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Mansueto Velasco Personal information Full name Mansueto Velasco, Jr. Nickname(s) Onyok Nationality 
PhilippinesBorn January 10, 1974
Bago City, Negros OccidentalHeight 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) Weight 48 kilograms (110 lb) Sport Sport Boxing Rated at Light Flyweight Medal recordCompetitor for PhilippinesMen’s Boxing Olympic Games Silver 1996 Atlanta Light Flyweight Asian Games Gold 1994 Hiroshima Light Flyweight |}
Mansueto "Onyok" Velasco, Jr. (born January 10, 1974) is a Filipino boxer from Bago City, Negros Occidental. He competed in the Men's 48 kg (light-flyweight) category at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and took home the silver medal, the Philippines' only medal of the games. He is the younger brother of Roel Velasco, winner of the Olympic bronze in the 1992 Summer Olympics, who is also a light-flyweight. Before this, he was one of the three Filipino boxers who clinched gold medals in the 1994 Asian Games held in Hiroshima, Japan.
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Olympic results
- Defeated Chih-Hsiu Tsai (Taiwan) RSC 1 (2:27)
- Defeated Yosvani Aguilera (Cuba) 14-5
- Defeated Hamid Berhili (Morocco) 20-10
- Defeated Rafael Lozano (Spain) 22-10
- Lost to Daniel Petrov (Bulgaria) 6-19
Television career
He later had a successful career as a comedian, appearing in several ABS-CBN sitcoms. Now, he appears on the Sunday sitcom of Manny Pacquiao, Show Me Da Manny on GMA 7
Onyok Velasco appeared on several TV shows in tandem with famous celebrities such as Bong Revilla, Richard Gomez, and Inna Raymundo.
Discography
TV Shows
- Tarajing Pot Pot (ABS-CBN 2)
- Tropang Trumpo (TV5) - guest
- Maalaala Mo Kaya (ABS-CBN 2)
- Richard Loves Lucy (ABS-CBN 2)
- Ispup (TV5)
- Da Body En Da Guard (ABS-CBN 2)
- Da Pilya En Da Pilot (ABS-CBN 2)
- Idok Ko Si Kap (GMA 7)
- OK Fine Whatever (ABS-CBN 2)
- OK Fine Oh Yes! (ABS-CBN 2)
- OK Fine Ito Ang Gusto Niyo (ABS-CBN 2)
- Magpakailanman (GMA 7)
- Kamao: Matira't Matibay (ABS-CBN 2) - co host
- Extra Challenge (GMA 7)
- Sabi Ni Nanay (SOLAR TV)
- Kemis: Kay Misis Umasa (SOLAR TV)
- Maynila (GMA 7)
- Baywalk (QTV 11)
- Talentadong Pinoy (TV5) - judge
- Everybodi Hapi (TV5)
- Pinoy Records Presents: Pinoy Extreme Talent (GMA 7) - judge
- Show Me Da Manny (GMA 7)
- Magic Palayok (GMA 7)
- Manny Many Prizes (GMA 7)
References
Asian Games Boxing Champions in Men's Light Flyweight 1966 – 2006: up to 48 kg 1966: Prapan Duang Cha Oom (THA) • 1970: Kim Chung-Bae (KOR) • 1974: Park Chan-Hui (KOR) • 1978: Suranya Siri (THA) • 1982: Huh Yong-Mo (KOR) • 1986: Oh Kwang-Soo (KOR) • 1990: Yang Suk-Jin (KOR) • 1994: Mansueto Velasco (PHI) • 1998: Suban Pannon (THA) • 2002: Kim Ki-Suk (KOR) • 2006: Zou Shiming (CHN)
Categories:- 1972 births
- Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Filipino actors
- Filipino boxers
- Living people
- Olympic boxers of the Philippines
- Olympic silver medalists for the Philippines
- People from Negros Occidental
- Twin people
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Asian Games medalists in boxing
- Asian boxing biography stubs
- Filipino sportspeople stubs
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