Joe Cantada (Jose Maria Javier Cantada), often referred to as Smokin’ Joe Cantada, was once a sportscaster, TV host, and singer. He was once born in Manila on 15 March 1942. He died on 22 March 1992. He was once the son of Ambrosio Cantada and Angelina Javier. He was once married to Ma. Bella Macam, with whom he had a son. He earned a bachelor of arts stage from Ateneo de Manila College in 1962.

Cantada started his broadcasting occupation in 1962 on DZHP (now DZXL) the place he hosted the musical program The Joe Cantada Display. Within the 30 years he was once in broadcasting, he hosted different systems each on radio and tv, together with information systems, the night leisure communicate display Past due Past due Display on IBC Channel 13 within the past due Sixties, and the general public provider communicate display Damayan within the past due Nineteen Seventies, which he co-hosted with Rosa Rosal. He penned newspaper columns, together with a weekly leisure evaluation column for the Graphic within the Sixties, and recorded a musical album. He’s easiest remembered, on the other hand, as a sportscaster. As a former boxer and track-and-field athlete, Cantada discovered his transition from information to sports activities easy, whilst he persevered to host different systems.

He first become well-known for his action-packed and colourful radio accounts of the summer time biking Excursion of Luzon starting within the Sixties. Listeners adopted the race carefully, keen to determine the most recent effects and listen to the struggles of cyclists to conquer the treacherous roads and distances. He gave audiences blow-by-blow accounts of the silver-medal end of Filipino boxer Anthony Villanueva who misplaced to Russian Stanislav Stepahskin within the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the Flash Elorde–Yoshiaki Numata boxing bout in Tokyo in 1966, and the Asian Video games from the Sixties to the Eighties. Within the Nineteen Seventies, he anchored the TV boxing displays Fistorama and In This Nook.

Cantada’s occupation won global stature when he was once the hoop announcer for the Muhammad Ali–Joe Frazier struggle dubbed Thrilla in Manila on the Araneta Coliseum. His stirring and buoyant introductions of the mythical boxers set the level as it should be for the overall showdown of the 2 heavyweight champions.

In 1982, Cantada become senior anchorman of the Antique Sports activities protection of the Philippine Basketball Affiliation (PBA) video games. At the side of fellow senior announcer Pinggoy Pengson, he labored with analysts Andy Jao, Joaqui Trillo, Quinito Henson, and others to position in combination a extra incisive TV presentation of the preferred basketball league. The emphasis was once on sport insights and research, and Cantada was once perceived via budding sportscasters and sports activities analysts as a beneficiant anchorman, permitting them to shine within the protection.

For 9 years, till he fell in poor health in 1991, the PBA’s opening and annual awards ceremonies had been Cantada’s staple performances, marked via his baritone voice, witty remarks, vigorous interplay with gamers and league personalities, his command of language and colourful descriptions of the video games whilst deftly weaving references to literature and pop culture into his sports activities accounts.