Berry vs Barros WBA Title Bout Will Land in Argentina

By Jhonny Gonzalez

It's now official that Panama's Irving Berry (18-1, 9KOs) and Argentina's Jonathan Barros (30-1, 17KOs) are going to fight for the vacant WBA featherweight title in the country of Argentina. The promoters, Osvaldo Rivero (Barros) and Rogelio Espino (Berry) were negotiating the details over the last few weeks.

They were trying to stage the fight on December 4 in Panama, but there were difficulties that both sides were unable to overcome with local officials, so the fight will now indeed head over to Argentina.

As previously noted on BoxingScene.com, the "regular" featherweight title became vacant after the WBA appointed Yuriorkis Gamboa as the "super champion upon winning his unification encounter with IBF champion Orlando Salido. But there was already a reigning "super champion" at featherweight, Chris John of Indonesia, but the sanctioning body made John the "champion in recess" because he's been inactive due to injury.