Boxing: Ioka unable to reclaim WBA super flyweight belt from Martinez

Boxing: Ioka unable to reclaim WBA super flyweight belt from Martinez

Argentine boxer Fernando Martinez retained the WBA super flyweight belt Sunday in a 12-round war with Japanese former champion Kazuto Ioka.

Fernando Martínez, Nina Meinke and Mayelli Rosquero Victorious in Title Fights

Today, boxing world title fights take place around the globe and are more accessible to watch than ever before. Sometimes, championship bouts do not receive as much attention and go underreported. Big Fight Weekend commits to writing about boxing news, previews and recaps. As such, the site now has a recurring segment on championship bouts from around the world from the past week. The focus of these pieces will be on clashes ranging from atomwei…

(Champion Pasta - ADNSUR) - In a definition as sharp as it is sincere, Sergio “Maravilla” Martínez distinguished training talent and set as an example the former World Champion, Jorge “Roña” Castro, an icon of Argentine boxing. During a talk broadcast on his social networks, former World Champion Maravilla Martínez was consulted about which boxers came far by talent alone, without relying so much on training. His response was forceful and surpri…

Fernando “Puma” Martínez Silences Tokyo, Retains WBA Title in War with Ioka

Argentine boxing has another reason to celebrate. Fernando “Puma” Martínez stormed into enemy territory and left with his crown intact, outlasting Japan’s Kazuto Ioka in a grueling battle at the Ota-City General Gymnasium in Tokyo. With the unanimous decision victory, Martínez successfully defended his WBA super flyweight world title and further cemented his status as … Continue reading "Fernando “Puma” Martínez Silences Tokyo, Retains WBA Title…

Yesterday at the Ota-City General Gymnasium in Tokyo (Japan) the rematch was held between the Argentine Fernando «Pumita» Martínez (18-0, 9 KO) and the Japanese Kazuto Ioka (31-4-1, 16 KO), in which Martinez again beat by points, this time more adjusted the unanimous score, 117-110, the most successful, 115-112, 114-113, so he retained his title of World Champion WBA of the supermock weight. The Argentine came out from the beginning much more ag…

Fernando Martínez, the only Argentine fighter champion of the world today, roared again in Japan, where he suffered a fall, but he was able to recompose and beat the Japanese by unanimous decision in the rematch against veteran Kazuto Ioka and successfully defended his World Super Fly title of the AMB. The match was much closer than the first, which had been in July 2024. Both of them raised a fight between the average and the short distance. Th…