News - Chris John

Recent world title challenger Marcos ’El Chino’ Maidana and hot prospect Víctor Ortiz will meet on June 27 for the WBA interim super lightweight title on the undercard of the rematch between the WBA featherweight champion Chris John and Rocky Juarez at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Maidana lost on February 7 against Andreas Kotelnik in Germany for Kotelnik’s WBA regular title. The 25-year-old Maidana has a record of 25-1, 24 KOs, while the 22-year-old Ortiz is 24-1-1, 19 KOs) read more ...

In his tenth defense of his WBA featherweight title and first fight in the USA, unbeaten world featherweight champion Chris John (42-0-2, 22 KOs) and Rocky Juarez (28-4-1, 20 KOs) battled to a hard-fought twelve round draw. John mostly outworked a determined Juarez, although Rocky landed the harder punches. John cut Juarez over the left eye in round five and threw more than 100 punches in most rounds, while Juarez closed strong read more ...

Juan Manuel Marquez: I’m going to prepare myself very well for this fight and I’m going to come prepared. I’m going to fight this fight for all the Mexican fans. I feel good and I feel very young. I hope that everybody comes out to watch a great fight read more ...

WBA featherweight champion Chris John has successfully retained his title via tenth round TKO against Tommy Browne on Sunday in Penrith, Australia. Browne failed to come out for round ten. John dominated the bout and was up by seven, seven and five points at the time of the stoppage read more ...

WBA featherweight champion Chris John says that his Australian challenger Tommy Browne is a dangerous and a very tough opponent. "In-Ji Chi failed to knock him out, it alerts that Browne is a serious opponent for me," said John. As usual, John refused to predict how he will win against his opponent, besides asking supports and prayers to win in the Sunday (8/7) fight in Australia. "The most important thing, I feel very fit, and read more ...

Despite scoring a first round knockdown, Derrick Gainer's attempt to once again win a world featherweight title failed v Chris John at the Britama Arena Sport Hall in Jakarta, Indonesia Friday night. Gainer - best known for being Roy Jones Junior's pal - lost a lopsided 118-109, 118-111, and 118-110 decision to the WBA 126lbs champ... read more ...