
Jonas Sultan: record, next fight and profile →


Bantamweight Katsuma Akitsugi won a 10-round unanimous decision over former title contender Jonas Sultan on Saturday at the Save Mart Center in Fresno, California.

Katsuma Akitsugi is willing to fight anyone, but his next step will be Saturday's 10-round bout against Jonas Sultan at the Save Mart Center in Fresno, California.

Japanese world champion Takuma Inoue will defend his WBA bantamweight crown against Filipino former world champion Jerwin Ancajas on Wednesday, November 15, at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan.

THE YORK HALL show originally scheduled to go ahead on Friday September 15 is subject to a date change and will now proceed on Friday October 6 at the same venue.

Nearly eight years after he gave up the IBF bantamweight title in an unsuccessful bid to win a world title at a lower weight, Paul Butler claimed the interim WBO bantamweight title with a unanimous points decision over Jonas Sultan, of the Philippines in Liverpool.

Paul Butler wasn’t about to be fooled twice over the same fight—or lack thereof. Advanced measures taken by the promotion allowed the 33-year-old Ellesmere Port boxer to move forward with a planned fight this Friday in Liverpool, even if against a new opponent and with modified stakes. Butler was previously prepared to

Paul Butler (33-2) was scheduled to face WBO bantamweight champion John Riel Casimero Friday night at the Echo Arena in Liverpool in the main event of a Probellum card. Unfortunately for him, those plans were cancelled for the second time when Casimero was pulled again for weight related issues.

Paul Butler breathed a sigh of relief once weight was read aloud. It wasn’t that the former bantamweight titlist was fearful of missing the mark. The exhale was the acknowledgement that he has a fight to look forward to following a week of turmoil which saw his bid versus WBO bantamweight titleholder fall by the wayside for the second time in four months.

Assurances have been made to the WBO that the bantamweight title fight in Liverpool does not include the involvement of longtime boxing adviser and accused crime lord Daniel Kinahan.