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Featherweight World Champion Martin "The Situ-Asian" Nguyen is coming back, and he's ready to defend his title in the main event of ONE: ROOTS OF HONOR on April 12 at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila, Philippines.
how they measure up JOSH WARRINGTON IBF
featherweight champion AGE: 28 BORN: Leeds LIVES: Leeds FIGHTS: 27 WINS: 27 STOPPAGES: 6 LOSSES: 0 ROUNDS BOXED: 205 KO RATE: 22 per cent STANCE: orthodox WEIGHT: 8st 13lbs 9oz HEIGHT: 5ft 7ins REACH: 64ins CARL FRAMPTON Ex-IBF super bantamweight, ex-WBA super-bantamweight and ex-WBA Super
featherweight champion AGE: 31 BORN: Belfast LIVES: Lisburn FIGHTS: 27 WINS: 26 STOPPAGES: 15 LOSSES: 1 ROUNDS BOXED: 183 KO RATE: 56 per cent STANCE: orthodox WEIGHT: 8st 13lbs 14oz HEIGHT: 5ft 5ins REACH: 62ins
'Being that he is the former
featherweight world champion, this bout is very significant.
"But I believe I'm the best
featherweight they have.
"Two years ago I could hardly make the
featherweight limit and I only stayed there because I was world champion.
With back-to-back defeats on his card to Junior Jones in 1996 and 1997, Barrera came back reign at super-bantam and
featherweight.
"I'd love to fight Hamed and I could get down to
featherweight, no problem," said the 29-year-old.
Filipino
featherweight Edward Kelly knows his win over Christian Lee four months ago has an asterisk beside it.
A couple of months removed from his duel with ONE bantamweight king Bibibano Fernandes, dual-champ Martin Nguyen will return to the cage to defend his
featherweight gold in the co-main event of ONE: Unstoppable Dream, May 18, at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, in Singapore.
said yesterday he's considering putting up a training camp in Cebu to prepare for his April 21 must-win duel with former IBF superbantamweight and WBA
featherweight champion Carl (The Jackal) Frampton at the SSE Arena in Belfast, adding that Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Tokyo are other options.
The former British
featherweight champion came in at 9st 3lbs 8oz with Buckland weighing 9st 2lb 8oz.
The former British, Commonwealth, European Boxing Union and WBO super
featherweight champion is looking to rebuild his own career and his big opinions have been missed around these parts.
Truscott, 24, famously seized the Commonwealth
featherweight title in his 11th fight at Eston in 2008 before losing the belt to John Simpson on a cut in his first defence and was beaten in a rematch by stoppage in his bid to reclaim it.
Buckland, who has lost just two of his 20 pro contests, joins the likes of Mongolia's WBU
featherweight champion Choi Tseveenpurev and Irishman Kevin O'Hara in the chase for the pounds 32,000 top prize.
