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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img alt="Eddie Abasolo in action. Handout/ONE Championship" class="fr-fic fr-dib" src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/Niclas-Larsen-Eddie-Abasolo-ONE-Fight-Night-8-16.jpg" style="width:960px"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Eddie Abasolo in action. <em>Handout/ONE Championship</em></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MANILA -- Though he has yet to step foot in the Philippines, Eddie Abasolo feels like he grew up there -- thanks to his </span><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><em>lola</em></span><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Born in Vallejo, California, Abasolo&#x27;s family made sure that he stayed in touch with his Filipino roots thanks to his grandmother&#x27;s home cooking. </span></div><div><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">&quot;My dad is from Baguio, but he&#x27;s not born there. My lola is. They came here and lived in Oakland, moved to Vallejo. I grew up with all my lola&#x27;s home cooking, dinuguan,&quot; said Abasolo.</span></div><div><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">&quot;I love those things, also the breakfasts. I have Filipino roots. I&#x27;m half, so I&#x27;m very close to my Filipino family as well,&quot; he added.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abasolo – who returns to action this Saturday against Luke &quot;The Chef&quot; Lessei at ONE Fight Night 19: Haggerty vs. Lobo – also shared how growing up in California made it easier to keep in touch with his roots. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">&quot;It&#x27;s awesome. I feel like there&#x27;s a lot of Filipinos where I grew up in California and the Bay Area,&quot; he recalled. &quot;I&#x27;m married to a Pinay, and it&#x27;s just awesome because in the neighborhood that I grew up in, the street is nothing but Filipinos, and my uncle owns the complex that I stay at.&quot;</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">&quot;The family that would come straight from the Philippines, that&#x27;s where they moved to,&quot; he added. &quot;In the alley, in our city, they actually call it Little Manila. And every night, especially in the summer, they would set up a fire in the driveway, all my aunties would cook sisig while they hang out. I&#x27;d be playing with my cousins. It was the best.&quot;</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abasolo has also felt plenty of support from Filipino-Americans, saying: &quot;That&#x27;s a huge honor because when Filipinos find out you&#x27;re Filipino, it&#x27;s a wrap, 100 percent full support.&quot;</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">&quot;Growing up as well, at places where I worked at, whenever the Filipinos find out I&#x27;m Filipino, I&#x27;ll be part of the potluck. Everyday, they&#x27;ll bring food for lunch. I love how tight knit everyone is in the Filipino culture,&quot; he added.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">With that in mind, Abasolo plans to repay all the love that he&#x27;s getting from the Filipino-American community and his fans in Southeast Asia by representing the Philippines to the best of his abilities. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">&quot;I&#x27;m proud to be a representative of the Philippines when it comes to Muay Thai,&quot; he said. &quot;I wear the colors with pride. I&#x27;m just so blessed and I hope to make my people proud.&quot;</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="fr-video fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><video class="fr-draggable" controls="" src="blob:https://news-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com/3222c519-227a-4a74-814a-8da119265189" style="width:600px">Your browser does not support HTML5 video.</video></span></span></div>

<p>Though he has yet to step foot in the Philippines, Eddie Abasolo feels like he grew up there -- thanks to his lola.</p>

Though he has yet to step foot in the Philippines, Eddie Abasolo feels like he grew up there -- thanks to his lola.

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Published Feb 14, 2024 06:21 PM PHT

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