Rocky Fuentes Beats Msafuni Okubo, Wins OPBF Title

By Ronnie Nathanielsz

The Philippines Rocky Fuentes of the famed ALA Gym of respected boxing patron Tony Aldeguer has just won the Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation title with a majority decision over Japan’s Masafumi Okubo at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.

Japanese judge Kazunobu Asoj scored the fight 116-114 for Fuentes, Ben Necessario had the Filipino the winner 115-113 while Australian judge Brad Vocale scored it even at 114-114.

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Saturday | Jan 31, 2026

With the win Fuentes improves to 25-6-2 with 15 knockouts while Okubo drops to 16-3-1 with 5 knockouts.

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