Former WBC and IBF world champion Cristian Mijares is expected to return March 17 in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico and hopes to fight for a regional title in search of a lofty spot in the super bantamweight world ratings. “I want a career at junior featherweight,” said Mijares read more ...

WBC super bantamweight champion Toshiaki Nishioka (39-4-3, 24 KOs) impressively pounded out a hard fought twelve round unanimous decision over former two-division champion and fan favorite Rafael Marquez(40-7, 36 KOs) on Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Nishioka broke open a competitive fight with a strong finish to win by scores read more ...

It has been revealed that former two-division world champion Rafael Marquez (39-6, 34 KOs) will face his compatriot Eduardo Becerril (12-7-2, 4 KOs) to replace the Nicaraguan Eusebio Osejo (19-9-2, 7 KOs) in their fight on Saturday in the Plaza de Toros in Cancun at an event organized by Zanfer Promotions read more ...

Hard-hitting Mexican Jhonny Gonzalez (48-7, 42 KOs), 124,75, captured the WBC feather belt as he stunned the audience with a one-punch stoppage of defending champ Hozumi Hasegawa (29-4, 12 KOs), 125.75, at 0:58 of the fourth session on Friday in Kobe, Japan read more ...

WBC 122-pound champ Toshiaki Nishioka (37-4-3, 23 KOs), 121, kept his belt in his fifth defense as he displayed all he had and pounded out a hard-fought but eventually lopsided decision (all 119-109) over official challenger Rendall Munroe (21-2, 9 KOs), 120.25, over a furious twelve rounds on Sunday in Tokyo, Japan read more ...

WBC super-bantam champ Toshiaki Nishioka (36-4-3, 23 KOs), 122, impressively kept his belt as he scored his fourth defense, all by KO, by halting previously unbeaten Filipino challenger Balweg Bangoyan (15-1, 6 KOs), 122, at 1:14 of the fifth round on Friday in Tokyo, Japan read more ...

European super bantamweight champion Rendall Munroe (21-1, 9 KOs) accomplished a successful move onto the world scene with a spirited come-from-behind kayo of Mexican guest Victor Terrazas (now 25-2-1, 13 KOs) in an official WBC final eliminator on Friday night at the Skydome in Coventry, England. Munroe (ranked WBC #1, WBA #3 and IBF #7) felt himself uncomfortable from the beginning of the fight read more ...

Unbeaten but unheralded Mexican Juan Carlos Salgado (22-0-1, 16 KOs), 130, greatly shocked the boxing world when he scored an unexpected TKO over previously unbeaten WBA super-feather champ Jorge Linares (27-1, 18 KOs), 129.75, a prohibitive favorite, at 1:13 of the opening session to capture the belt on Saturday in Tokyo, Japan read more ...

From the Arena Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico: Defending his WBC super bantamweight belt, Japan’s Toshiaki Nishioka (34-4-3, 21 KOs) hushed more than 12,000 screaming Mexican fans by knocking out former champ Jhonny Gonzalez (40-7, 34 KOs) in the third round. read more ...

Nicaraguan KO artist Roman Gonzalez (21-0, 19 KOs), 104.5, captured the WBA 105-pound belt as he kept stalking defending champ Yutaka Niiida (23-2-3, 9 KOs), 104.25, Japan, from the outset and closed his right optic so completely that the referee had it examined by a ringside physician and wisely declared a halt at 1:59 of the fourth round on Monday in Yokohama, Japan read more ...