Daigo Higa

Daigo Higa Knocks Out Yuki Strong Kobayashi Inside Of Five Rounds

Daigo Higa is ready to wreak havoc on the bantamweight division. The former flyweight titlist picked up his second win at the new weight, scoring a violent 5th round knockout of Yuki Strong Kobayashi. A right uppercut put Kobayashi down and out at 0:...

Kazuto Ioka, Kosei Tanaka Make Weight For Final Title Fight Of 2020

The last remaining major title fight of 2020 is official one sleep away. Kazuto Ioka and Kosei Tanaka made weight for their highly anticipated junior bantamweight title fight, which headlines a New Year's Eve boxing event live from Ota-City General G...

Daigo Higa Aiming To Conquer a World Title in a Second Weight Class

Hard-hitting former WBC flyweight world champion Daigo Higa is totally back in boxing, wanting a world title in a second weight class, and he is sweating hard to get back in great shape.

Daigo Higa Returns, Stops Buenaobra in Sixth Round

Former world flyweight titleholder Daigo Higa returned to the ring Thursday night, stopping Jason Buenaobra in round 6 at the famed Korakuen Hall in his hometown of Tokyo, Japan. With the victory, Higa improves to 16-1, 16 knockouts.

Photos: Cristofer Rosales Shocks Daigo Higo, TKO For WBC Belt

Rosales, Higa Fight Photos Gallery - Cristofer Rosales of Nicaragua on Sunday secured the WBC flyweight belt by beating Japan's Daigo Higa, who the previous day had given up his title for failing to make the weight.

Murata Drops, Stops Blandamura in 8th Round, Retains WBA Title

Ryota Murata’s pressure was too much for Emanuele Blandamura. Japan’s Murata stalked Italy’s Blandamura throughout their bout until stopping him in the eighth round of their WBA middleweight title fight Sunday in Yokohama, Japan.

Photos: Ryota Murata, Blandamura - Ready For War in Yokohama

Murata, Blandamura Weigh-In Photos Gallery - Japan's Daigo Higa was stripped of his World Boxing Council flyweight belt Saturday after failing to make weight on the eve of his title defense against Cristofer Rosales of Nicaragua. Higa, who is 15-0, w...

Daigo Higa, Ken Shiro Title Bouts Added To Murata-Blandamura

Japanese world champions Ryota Murata, Daigo Higa and Ken Shiro, will defend their world titles against challengers Emanuele Blandamura of Italy, Cristofer Rosales of Nicaragua and Ganigan Lopez of Mexico, in a card that will be organized on April 15...

Fuentes Asks WBC To Review Knockout Loss To Daigo Higa

Former world champion Moises Fuentes arrived at THE WBC "Tuesday Coffee Conference" in a stirred up mood, as he requested a thorough review of his first round loss to WBC flyweight champion, Daigo Higa. Higa successfully defended his title by knockin...

Daigo Higa's One Round Destruction of Fuentes Ties Record

Daigo Higa scored a first round knockout of Mexico’s Moises Fuentes to win the second defense of his WBC flyweight title on Sunday. The 22-year-old Higa, improved to 15-0 in his pro career with every win coming by knockout. Fuentes, the ninth-ranked...

Photos: Daigo Higa, Moises Fuentes - Ready For Battle in Japan

This Saturday, in the city of Naha, the capital of the province of Okinawa that is more than 1,500 kilometers southwest of Tokyo, there was the official weigh-in for the world title showdown between the unbeaten flyweight world champion of the World...

Photos: Daigo Higa, Moises Fuentes - Face To Face at Final Presser

Higa vs. Fuentes Final Press Conference Photos Gallery - World Boxing Council flyweight champion, Daigo Higa of Japan (14-0, 14KOs), is staking his title against Mexican former champion, Moises Fuentes (25-4-1 / 14KOs), in the second defense of his...

Daigo Higa: The Other Knockout Artist This Weekend

By Cliff Rold - The first weekend in February will be a busy weekend on the boxing calendar. The biggest fight of the weekend, Saturday’s cruiserweight unification match between Murat Gassiev and Yunier Dorticos, features a pair of legitimate power p...

Juan Hernandez Targets World Title at Super Flyweight

After suffering a crushing loss to Japanese star Daigo Higa last May, Mexican boxer Juan "Churritos" Hernández has a new goal for 2018 - and that is to become a world champion in the super flyweight division. Having left behind the Japanese setback i...

Fuentes: Beating Daigo Higa Will Be Tough - But Not Impossible!

Former world champion, Moises Fuentes is already designing the strategy together with his coach Alejandro Galindo, for his important clash on February 4 in Japan, where he will face world champion Daigo Higa, for the World Boxing Council championship...