Kenshiro Teraji vacated the light flyweight title earlier this year
ESPN’s Renato Bermudez reports that former champions Carlos Canizales and Panya Pradabsri will meet for the vacant WBC light flyweight title in Thailand this coming November.
Said title formerly belong to Kenshiro Teraji, who battles Cristofer Rosales for flyweight gold in the coming weeks. Canizales (27-2-1, 19 KO) battled Teraji to a hugely entertaining majority decision loss this past January before claiming the silver belt with a narrow victory over Ivan Garcia Balderas. He’s long been among the best in the division, his only other loss coming to Esteban Bermudez on the heels of a two-year layoff while up on all three cards.
Pradabsri (43-2, 27 KO) notably handed Wanheng Menayothin the first defeat of his 55-fight career and went on to defend the minimumweight belt four times before dropping a wide decision to Yudai Shigeoka. He’s 3-0 since over standard-issue Thai Cab Drivers ™.
With this fight filling the WBC vacancy and Shokichi Iwata vs Jairo Noriega doing the same for the WBO, that just leaves the WBA. “Gold” champion Erick Rosa will presumably fight for it at some point after ages of trying and failing to challenge Knockout CP Freshmart for their minimumweight belt.
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