CEBU CITY, Philippines—Prime Stags Sports recently revealed that they are working on a fight for former world champion and now Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF) silver featherweight
Prime Stags Sports vice president Pocholo Padilla revealed that they arePadilla said that they are targeting May or August for Melindo’s fight in Japan.
The 34-year-old Melindo, a former International Boxing Federation and International Boxing Organization world light flyweight champion, recently clinched the OPBF title. Padilla said if negotiations for the Japan fight won’t push through, their other option is to let Melindo fight here in Cebu in June.He won his first world title in Japan after knocking out Akira Yaegashi in the first round for the IBF world light flyweight title in 2017.
Melindo lost the IBF world light flyweight title to WBA super world light flyweight king Ryoichi Taguchi in the same year in a unification bout via unanimous decision.
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