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Here's a response I wrote to the assumption that FMA influenced Western boxing.
Short version: no evidence of it.
Outside of MAYBE the bolo punch, which is a non-standard punch.
and did the bolo punch originally Filipino? I heard it was named after a indigenous name of a sword originally found in the philippines
A filipino invented the bolo punch by imitating the bolo sword on sugar cane. is one example