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Encyclopedia > Super bantamweight

Super Bantamweight is a weight division in professional boxing. It is alternately referred to as "junior featherweight." The maximum weight for this division is 122 pounds. Boxing weight class names are not always consistent, as shown in the following table: Weight classes for boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics: See also Boxing Reigning boxing champions Categories: | ... Professional boxing bout featuring Ricardo Domínguez (left, throwing a left uppercut) versus Rafael Ortíz Boxing, also called pugilism (from Latin), prizefighting (when referring to professional boxing) or the sweet science[1] is a sport and martial art in which two participants of similar weight fight each other with...


There were attempts by promoters in the 1920s to establish this weight class, but no sanctioning organization or state athletic commission would recognize it. The first title fight took place in 1976 when the World Boxing Council recognized Rigoberto Riasco as its champion when he defeated Waruinge Nakayama over eight rounds. The World Boxing Association crowned its first champion in 1977 when Soo Hwan Hong knocked out Hector Carasquilla in three rounds to win the inaugural WBA championship. In 1983 the International Boxing Federation sanctioned the bout between Bobby Berna and Seung-In Suh for its first title. Berna won in the eleventh round. WBC logo mark “WBC” redirects here. ... World Boxing Association (WBA) is a boxing organization that sanctions official matches, and awards the WBA world championship title, at the professional level. ... The International Boxing Federation, or IBF, is one of many organizations which sanction world championship boxing bouts, alongside the WBA, WBC, WBO, and a dozen or so others. ...


Notable fighters to hold championship titles at this weight have been Wilfredo Gómez, Erik Morales, Manny Pacquiao, Marco Antonio Barrera, Lupe Pintor, Jeff Fenech, Fabrice Benichou, Daniel Zaragoza and Kennedy McKinney. Wilfredo Gómez holds the record for longest title reign, at five years and ten months. He also holds the record for most title defenses, at seventeen. Wilfredo Gómez (born October 29, 1956) is a former boxer and three time world champion. ... Erik Isaac Morales Elvira (born September 1, 1976 in Tijuana, Mexico) is a Mexican professional boxer, eight time WBC, IBF, WBO, IBA world champion and future hall-of-famer. ... Manny Pacquiao (born Emmanuel Dapigran Pacquiao on December 17, 1978 in Bukidnon, Mindanao, Philippines), also known as the Pacman, is a Filipino professional boxer . ... Marco Antonio Barrera Tapia (born January 17, 1974 in Mexico City) is a Mexican professional boxer and former world WBC Super Featherweight champion. ... Guadalupe Pintor (born April 13, 1955), better known as Lupe Pintor in the boxing world, is a former boxer from Cuajimalpa, Mexico. ... Jeff Fenech aka The Marrickville Mauler (born May 28, 1964 in Marrickville, Sydney, Australia) is an Australian of Maltese parents is a former boxer, to whom many Australians refer to as the greatest boxing champion to ever come out of the country. ... Fabrice Benichou (born April 5, 1966, in Madrid, Spain) is a French boxer. ... Daniel Zaragoza (born December 11, 1957 in Mexico City, Mexico) was a professional boxer. ... Kennedy McKinney (born January 10, 1966 in Hernando, Mississippi) was a professional boxer. ...


Professional Champions


This is a chronological List of World Super Bantamweight Boxing Champions, as recognized by four of the better-known sanctioning organizations: The World Boxing Association (WBA), founded in 1921 as the National Boxing Association (NBA), The World Boxing Council (WBC), founded in 1963, The International Boxing Federation (IBF), founded in...

Weight divisions in boxing
Professional boxing
Strawweight | Light Flyweight | Flyweight | Super Flyweight | Bantamweight | Super Bantamweight | Featherweight | Super Featherweight | Lightweight | Light Welterweight | Welterweight | Light Middleweight | Middleweight | Super Middleweight | Light Heavyweight | Cruiserweight | Heavyweight
Olympic boxing
Light Flyweight | Flyweight | Bantamweight | Featherweight | Lightweight | Light Welterweight | Welterweight | Middleweight | Light Heavyweight | Heavyweight | Super Heavyweight

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:: Golden Boy Promotions Inc. :: (636 words)
Tall and lanky, with brutal power in both hands, WBC super bantamweight champion Oscar Larios has made it his business to carry on the storied legacy of the legendary fighters who have called Mexico home.
In the meantime, Larios continued to add up the victories, losing only in a 1998 challenge of WBO Intercontinental super bantamweight champ Agapito Sanchez, in which the rough tactics of Sanchez opened a cut over Larios' eye, bringing a halt to the bout in the fifth round.
With the win, Larios was named the interim WBC super bantamweight champion, with a rematch against Jorrin promised for later that year.
Joan Guzman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (701 words)
The WBO's world Super Bantamweight champion, Agapito Sanchez, had travelled to Cardiff, Wales, to defend his title against Guzman, but he was diagnosed with a detached retina during a required medical check-up days before the fight.
Guzman was crowned as the WBO's world Super Bantamweight champion with a third round knockout win over Oliva, at the Cardiff Castle.
He failed to make the Super Bantamweight division's weight limit, however, and wound up beating Joe Morales by a ten round decision instead.
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