Background
The youngest of three brothers who excelled in Olympic boxing, and one of four boxing brothers, Reynaldo was born December 26, 1957 in the Philippines.
The youngest of three brothers who excelled in Olympic boxing, and one of four boxing brothers, Reynaldo was born December 26, 1957 in the Philippines.
"They were the phenomenal "boxing brothers" of the country, using boxing as their ticket to a good education and consequently, a better life." He "at age 16 captured the flyweight title in the National Youth Amateur Boxing bouts in Bacolod City," in the Philippines. As an 18-year-old bantamweight in the 1976 Filipino Olympic team, he reached the quarterfinals of the Montreal He was 119 lbs (54 kg), and 5"5" (164 cm). They have three children.
They reside in Surrey, British Columbia,
Fortaleza moved to in 1990 where he first worked at a silkscreening job for minimum wage and then trained and worked as a hospital janitor and maintenance person.
He owned and ran a boxing gym briefly before entering newspaper publishing. He is publisher of the Philippine Asian News Today and of Living Today magazine through the Reyfort Media Group.
He also holds a franchise in the Philippines-based ABS-Christian Broadcasting Network television Patrol World, a news program which is available through a local Vancouver cable channel. Through his newspaper or media group he has fostered and supported five years of the Metro Vancouver-area singing contest, the PNT Singing Idol competition.
On 18 February 2010 Fortaleza was honoured by Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson for his 1976 Olympic and current Canadian contributions.
He then went on to win "six golds, one silver and two bronzes in 11 international boxing competitions." He was previously honoured by the Multicultural Sports Development Society for his role in "outstanding sports achievements and contributions to Philippine Sports." He has been recognized for his role in bringing Filipino entertainment and sports figures to entertain Vancouver Filipino audiences and was named by an international Filipino association, Binibining Pilipinas of the World, as one of the "ten most outstanding Filipino Canadians.".
