The stage is now set for the rematch to set the record straight. Japan's former WBO super flyweight world champion Kazuto Ioka will face the current WBA champion Joshua Franco of the United States in a rematch of their recent world title unification...
The next two contenders in line are ready to fill the void left behind by Kazuto Ioka. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that Junto Nakatani and Andrew Moloney have been instructed to enter talks for an ordered vacant WBO junior bantamweight title. Th...
A rare attractive mandatory title fight is now destined for a purse bid hearing. Whether or not the bout comes to fruition is another story. BoxingScene.com has learned that talks have stalled in the WBO-ordered junior bantamweight title fight...
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Joshua Franco still has the same target in mind for his next fight even with one less belt at stake. A title unification with lineal/WBC junior bantamweight champion Juan Francisco Estrada is still the priority for San Antonio’s Franco. The goal has...
Japanese star Kazuto Ioka was disappointed with his performance on Saturday night, when he fought to a twelve round majority draw with Joshua Franco in their super flyweight unification clash at Tokyo' General Gymnasium.
Although this highly anticipated super flyweight unification fight between WBO titlist Kazuto Ioka and WBA counterpart Joshua Franco lived up to the occasion, the majority draw outcome, while fair, was unsatisfying as both men ended up keeping their...
Joshua Franco and Kazuto Ioka will begin 2023 the same way as this year ended—with their respective title reigns intact. The final title fight of 2022 failed to produce a winner as the pair of junior bantamweight titlists fought to a twelve-round, ma...
A win on Saturday for Kazuto Ioka will once again see his name etched in the record books. It’s far from his end game, however. Japan’s lone-ever male four-division titlist is set for his WBO/WBA junior bantamweight unification bout versus visiting J...
Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez has emerged as a breakout star over the course of the past year. The only thing left for the San Antonio native to do in 2022 is to watch his older brother join him in the winner’s circle. Joshua Franco—Rodriguez’s older brother...
Kazuto Ioka couldn’t be more thrilled with the circumstances under which he continues his annual boxing tradition. The four-division and reigning WBO junior bantamweight champion headlines a New Year’s Eve boxing event for the eleventh time in his st...
The final title fight of 2022 is officially set. Kazuto Ioka needed two tries and had to strip down to his birthday suit to hit the 115-pound mark for his New Year’s Eve showdown with Joshua Franco. There was no such issue for the visiting Franco, wh...
For all the talent in his weight division, Joshua Franco always banked on landing a significant opponent for his next fight. There was a point where he thought it would be a title consolidation clash with Juan Francisco Estrada, who instead opted to...
