WBC Super Flyweight World Championship<\/p>\n
November 9, 2024 \/ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania \/ Wells Fargo Center<\/p>\n
MATCHROOM BOXING + TEIKEN PROMOTION PRESENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n 26 world champions have been recognized by the WBC, eight of whom have regained the title: Rafael Orono (Venezuela), Gilberto Roman (Mexico), Masamori Tokuyama (Japan), Vic Darchinyan (Australia), Tomas Rojas (Mexico), Srisaket Sor Rungvisai (Thailand), Juan Francisco Estrada (Mexico), Jesse Rodriguez (USA).<\/span><\/p>\n 122 super flyweight world title fights have been held in WBC history.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n June 29, 2024\u00a0\u00a0Jesse Rodriguez KO7 Juan Francisco Estrada \u2013 Phoenix, Arizona<\/span><\/p>\n Dec. 3 2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Juan Francisco Estrada W12 Roman Gonzalez \u2013 Glendale, Arizona<\/span><\/p>\n Sep. 17, 2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Jesse Rodriguez W12 Israel Gonzalez \u2013 Las Vegas, Nevada<\/span><\/p>\n June 25, 2022\u00a0\u00a0Jesse Rodriguez TKO8 Srisaket Sor Rungvisai \u2013 San Antonio, Texas<\/span><\/p>\n Feb. 5, 2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Jesse Rodriguez W12 Carlos Cuadras \u2013 Phoenix, Arizona<\/span><\/p>\n Mar. 13, 2021\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Juan Francisco Estrada W12 Roman Gonzalez \u2013 Dallas, Texas<\/span><\/p>\n Oct. 23, 2020\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Juan Francisco Estrada TKO11 Carlos Cuadras \u2013 Mexico City, Mexico<\/span><\/p>\n Apr. 26, 2019\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Juan Francisco Estrada W12 Srisaket Sor Rungvisai \u2013 Inglewood, California<\/span><\/p>\n Feb. 24, 2018\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Srisaket Sor Rungvisai W12 Juan Francisco Estrada \u2013 Inglewood, California<\/span><\/p>\n Sep. 9, 2017\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Srisaket Sor Rungvisai KO4 Roman Gonzalez \u2013 Carson, California<\/span><\/p>\n Mar. 18, 2017\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Srisaket Sor Rungvisai W12 Roman Gonzalez \u2013 New York, New York<\/span><\/p>\n Sep. 10, 2016\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Roman Gonzalez W12 Carlos Cuadras \u2013 Inglewood, California<\/span><\/p>\n May 31, 2014\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Carlos Cuadras TW8 Srisaket Sor Rungvisai \u2013 Iztacalco, Mexico<\/span><\/p>\n Nov. 15, 2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Srisaket Sor Rungvisai TKO9 Hirofumi Mukai \u2013 Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand<\/span><\/p>\n Feb. 7, 2009\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Vic Darchinyan TKO11 Jorge Arce \u2013 Anaheim, California<\/span><\/p>\n Aug. 30, 2008\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Cristian Mijares TKO3 Chatchai Sasakul \u2013 Monterrey, Mexico<\/span><\/p>\n Feb. 27, 2006\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Masamori Tokuyama W12 Jose Navarro \u2013 Osaka, Japan<\/span><\/p>\n June 28, 2004\u00a0\u00a0Katsushige Kawashima TKO1 Masamori Tokuyama \u2013 Yokohama, Japan<\/span><\/p>\n Jan. 2, 2000\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In-Joo Cho W12 Gerry Pe\u00f1alosa \u2013 Seoul, South Korea<\/span><\/p>\n Nov. 23, 1997\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Gerry Pe\u00f1alosa KO10 Young-Joo Cho \u2013 Seongnam City, South Korea<\/span><\/p>\n Jan. 18, 1995\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hiroshi Kawashima W12 Jose Luis Bueno \u2013 Yokohama, Japan<\/span><\/p>\n Nov. 13, 1993\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Jose Luis Bueno W12 Sungkil Moon \u2013 Pohang City, South Korea<\/span><\/p>\n June 9, 1990\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sungkil Moon TKO8 Gilberto Roman \u2013 Seoul, South Korea<\/span><\/p>\n Jan. 20, 1009\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sungkil Moon TW9 Nana Konadu \u2013 Seoul, South Korea<\/span><\/p>\n Nov. 7, 1989\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Nana Konadu W12 Gilberto Roman \u2013 Mexico City, Mexico<\/span><\/p>\n Apr. 8, 1988\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Gilberto Roman W12 Sugar Baby Rojas \u2013 Miami Beach, Florida<\/span><\/p>\n May 16, 1987\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Santos Laciar TKO11 Gilberto Roman \u2013 Reims, France<\/span><\/p>\n Mar. 30, 1986\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Gilberto Roman W12 Jiro Watanabe \u2013 Hyogo, Japan<\/span><\/p>\n Jul. 5, 1984\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Jiro Watanabe W12 Payao Poontarat \u2013 Osaska, Japan<\/span><\/p>\n Nov. 27, 1983\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Payao Poontarat W12 Rafael Orono \u2013 Pattaya, Thailand<\/span><\/p>\n May 9, 1983\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Rafael Orono W12 Raul Valdez \u2013 Caracas, Venezuela<\/span><\/p>\n Apr. 22, 1981\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Chulho Kim W15 Jiro Watanabe \u2013 Seoul, South Korea<\/span><\/p>\n Feb. 2, 1980\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Rafael Orono W15 Seung-Hoon Lee \u2013 Caracas, Venezuela<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n By James Blears<\/p>\n Age isn\u2019t a number and it\u2019s certainly not a guessing game in Boxing, at which you don\u2019t play, ploy, toy or even joust! That would be the mistake of a freelancer.<\/p>\n This is a factor to mull over and carefully consider, viz the intriguing fight between WBC super-flyweight champion Jessie \u2018\u2019Bam Rodriguez who is fighting a mandatory defence against Pedro \u2018\u2019Pedrin\u2019\u2019 Guevara on November 9th<\/sup> at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n Southpaw Jessie is still a youthful 24, bursting with energy, Joi de vie, vim and vitality. His record is 20-0, 13 KO\u2019s, and so far, he\u2019s been in a tearing hurry to win the WBC flyweight and super-flyweight titles. His KO percentage is sixty-five percent. Bam can slam! So far, he\u2019s fought one hundred and ten rounds.<\/p>\n Pedro is thirty- five. His record is 42-4-1, 22 KO\u2019s. His KO percentage is 52.38 percent. He\u2019s fought three hundred and twenty- nine rounds. The \u2018\u2019Old Un\u2019\u2019 is still a \u2018\u2019Good Un.\u2019\u2019 He learned valuable lessons from his early IBF challenge to John Riel Casimero in his home town of Mazatlan. Down in the first from a left hook, he got up to lose a SD. But that was just the end of the beginning.<\/p>\n Some boxers are at their finest when they\u2019re youthful, but then fade quickly as they age. They flare up like a match, burn bright and then crinkle, burning their fingers and clenched fists, as the flame tapers down. While others improve with age like a fine wine, cognac or single malt whisky. Part of it is to do with how they train, take care of their bodies and refrain from the heady temptations delivered on an enticing silver platter as the fruit slithers of success. Some are boxers, rather than fighters and don\u2019t absorb as much wear and tear castigation along the long hard road to the beanstalk.<\/p>\n During the 1984 US Presidential Election, seventy-three-year old Ronald Regan adroitly and deftly parried the expected age question, which he knew was inevitably coming, even making his fifty-six year old rival Walter Mondale wince and laugh, by saying; \u2018\u2019I will NOT make age an issue of this campaign. I\u2019m not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent\u2019s youth and inexperience!\u2019\u2019 He went on to win by a landside.<\/p>\n Of course, that was politics and as GGG points out: \u2018\u2019This is Boxing.\u2019\u2019 As Vitali Klitschko once wryly remarked: \u2018\u2019At least in boxing, most of the punches are frontally delivered\u2026 face to face!\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n Muhammad Ali quizzically suggested: \u2018\u2019Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n While \u2018\u2019Big\u2019\u2019 George Foreman insisted: \u2018\u2019The question isn\u2019t at what age I want to retire. It\u2019s at what income.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n Beguiling and suggestively appealing, but no one, even all-time Greats are privy to the evergree- apple of Eternal Youth. One Boxing maxim is that a good Big Un usually beats a good Little Un. There isn\u2019t so much informed opinion available, about a Golden Oldie against a Young Whipper-Snapper.<\/p>\n It\u2019s been ten years since Pedro won the WBC light-flyweight Green and Gold Belt, left vacant by a growing, filling out Naoya Inoue. In his first foray outside Mexico, Pedro went to Japan to defeat Akira Yaegashi with a crunching left hook to the body in round seven.<\/p>\n Two successful defences followed. He polished off overmatched Richard Claveras in round one and then a UD victory over mandatory challenger and compatriot Ganigan Lopez. But then, he lost his crown to Yu Kimura via a SD. He bounced back to win the next four, but then lost a MD to Kenshiro Teraji for the WBC light flyweight title.<\/p>\n Opportunity finally came knocking again and it was at last year\u2019s WBC Convention when he and fellow Sinaloan Carlos \u2018\u2019El Principe\u2019\u2019 Cuadras fought for the World Boxing Council Interim super flyweight title. Pedro who had come down with a fever and a rising temperature which hampered him, was knocked down in rounds two and six, but fought back valiantly to lose a SD.<\/p>\n Carlos was then scheduled to fight for the vacant Interim title but suffered a ruptured achilles tendon in training and fate and accompanying destiny provided Pedro an opportunity to go to Perth in Australia and to defeat Andrew Maloney via SD, slowing down and neutralizing the speedster with some clouting body shots.<\/p>\n Pedro cheerfully says he knows he\u2019s the Underdog for this upcoming fight against Bam, which motivates and fires him up no end. So, to bridge the age gap he\u2019s been undergoing a spartan training regime perched in the chilly altitude climes of Jilotepec. Estado de Mexico, for the best part of three months. He was going to fight on October 11th<\/sup> and had already spent three weeks there. But then the Bam fight was successfully negotiated and he\u2019s therefore added the extra time stint on.<\/p>\n Pedro sees this as his second coming and is determined to exploit what he\u2019s convinced is the good fortune of this Autumnal and God given chance.<\/p>\n He now confronts Bam who most recently blasted out Juan Francisco \u2018\u2019Gallo\u2019\u2019 Estrado who at thirty- four is not a Spring Chicken ether. In June after an almost two-years hiatus, Gallo who had lost his edge due to ring rustiness, lost his WBC super-flyweight Title to Bam, not being able to recover from a monumental left hook rib-bender to the body in round seven. Prior to this been decked in round four and defiantly returned the favour in round six as Bam became momentarily careless. It didn\u2019t check Bam\u2019s relentless progress. Gallo has since decided to campaign at bantam.<\/p>\n Bam has been getting better and better, inflicting a series of grand slams. Fighting CC on only days of notice and moving up from fly to super-fly, he adjusted brilliantly and dropped Carlos in round three on the way to a convincing UD victory for the vacant WBC title.<\/p>\n Then, former champion and fellow southpaw Sri Saket Sor Rungvisai, who he decked with a numbing left hook in the seventh and polished off in the following round with a TKO. A successful defence via a UD win over durable Israel Gonzalez.<\/p>\n Back to fly to take on Cristian Gonzalez for the WBO title, vacated by Junto Nakatani and a painful jolt, which proved a test of character as well as fortitude, because he suffered a broken jaw in the sixth but soldiered on to win a UD, then needing surgery.<\/p>\n In defeating Sunny Edwards he added the IBF title. Sunny suffered a fracture of the left medinal orbital bone in the second from a searing right southpaw lead and was thereafter seeing double. Sunny was dropped by a straight left in the eighth and his corner wisely pulled him out at the end of the ninth. He\u2019d also collected a gash over and under his left eye and a nick on the bridge of his nose. Then it was Gallo Estrada\u2019s turn to be overwhelmed.<\/p>\n Gallo decided to try and fight fire with fire and the toe- to toe action forced him back on the ropes. He abandoned his boxing repertoire and it cost him dear.<\/p>\n Pedro says he\u2019s determined not to follow a similar going to war course. He says he\u2019s going to be fast, aiming to be slick, using his jab and trying his utmost to give the youngster a tempered pot shotting comprehensive boxing lesson, while avoiding mistakes and focusing, by drawing upon availing himself of all the guile his accumulated experience gained from the school of hard knocks over the years. He\u2019s carefully studied Jessie James Bam Rodriguez and says he won\u2019t get involved in a \u2018\u2019Gun slinging\u2019\u2019 OK Coral firepower brawl. Pedro is durable and resourceful. He\u2019s never been stopped during his long career, which started way back in 2008.<\/p>\n He says he\u2019s going to wrap up warm for the early onset of winter on the US Eastern seaboard and he will be focused on what\u2019s surely coming his way. Bam is not infallible, but at his age he appears to be in fatigable.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Guevara_Bam_WBC-1024x576.jpg\")
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WBC SUPER FLYWEIGHT WORLD CHAMPIONS<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE SUPER FLYWEIGHT DIVISION IN WBC HISTORY<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n
WBC SUPER FLYWEIGHT TOP 10 CHAMPIONS<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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MEMORABLE WBC SUPER FLYWEIGHT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHTS<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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