Lester Martinez Wins WBC Interim World Super Middleweight Championship with Unanimous Decision over Immanuwel Aleem
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(March 21, 2026) – Guatemalan slugger Lester Martinez won a historic 12-round unanimous decision over fellow contender Immanuwel Aleem to win the WBC Interim Super Middleweight Championship and become his home country’s first super middleweight world champion.
Fighting in the 12-round main event of ProBoxTV’s broadcast from the NOS Event Center in San Bernardino, Martinez (20-0-1, 16 KOs) of Guatemala City, Guatemala, used effective and powerful uppercuts and a superior work rate to keep the upper hand over Aleem (22-4-3, 14 KOs) throughout while absorbing return fire with his typical toughness.
To his credit, Aleem came on strong in the later rounds, especially the eleventh and never gave up trying to win. The wave of history, however, was too strong to withstand.
The scores were 120-108, 118-110 and 119-109, all for new champion Martinez.
“I feel good,” said a happy Martinez, post-fight. “I want to thank my parents and family. I want to thank my team: Bomac, Saul, all my team and my promoter Garry Jonas. I want to thank all of you, Guatemala. We now have a world champion! I love Guatemala and all of my fans. I love y’all. Viva Guatemala!
“All respect to Aleem,” the new champion continued. “He’s a warrior and we knew how good he was and his experience, but we were ready for that and more. We went in cautious because we knew what we had in front of us. But to hear the Guatemalan fans cheering gave us the will to go on.”
“He had more consistency in the little things and I didn’t capitalize, so shout out to Lester Martinez,” said a disappointed but sportsmanlike Aleem. “It wasn’t the performance I was looking for, but I’m going back to the drawing board to continue my hunt for a world title.”
In a strange turn of events, undefeated Joshua Kevin Anton (13-0, 12 KOs) of Palmdale, California, picked up the WBC Continental Americas Super Welterweight Championship with a surprise stoppage of former top contender Kudratillo “The Punisher” Abdukakhorov (22-6, 14 KOs) of Andijan, Uzbekistan.
Although a warrior in spirit with plenty of pitched battles in his history, Abdukakhorov began clutching his head in pain at the conclusion of an uncompetitive round one and indicated he was injured and unable to fight. Referee David Solivan accepted Abdukakhorov’s requested retirement officially at 3:00 of round one, per California rules.
Undefeated local fan favorite Albert “Chop Chop” Gonzalez (17-0, 10 KOs) of Riverside, California, had little problem knocking out Owings Mill, Maryland’s Brandon “The Hitter” Chambers (12-5-1, 5 KOs) at 1:47 of the opening round. The 23-year-old featherweight prospect Gonzalez moved in quickly and landed a powerful right hand behind the ear that left Chambers on the mat for an extended period.
LA’s undefeated Sam Contreras (5-0, 2 KOs) knocked out overmatched Texan Cesar “El Matrix” Cantu (3-5-2, 1 KO) of Weslaco, Texas. Contreras wisely used his advantages in height and reach and varied his attack to the head and body. The normally durable Cantu had no answers to the educated attack. Referee David Solivan decided the determined but outgunned Cantu didn’t belong in the ring with a prospect at Contreras’ level at 1:09 of round two.
19-year-old Robert Garcia Academy bantamweight prospect Luis Coria (5-0, 5 KOs) of Moreno Valley, California, scored an impressive TKO stoppage of 41-fight veteran Lito Naruto Dante (21-16-4, 12 KOs) of Sierra Bullones, Bohol, Philippines. Normally a durable road warrior, Dante grew tired of absorbing the hammering fists of the young puncher Coria and informed his corner he had had enough at the conclusion of round two.
Super Welterweight Kevin “The Badass” Ventura (12-1, 8 KOs) of Omaha fought his way to a six-round unanimous decision over Riverside, California’s Aaron Watson (2-2-2, 1 KO). Watson started out well throwing powerful right hands, but Ventura came on with every passing round. The in-ring action was closer than the scores of 60-54 by all three judges.
To open the night’s action, former three-time national amateur champion Jocelyn Camarillo (6-0, 1 KO) of Coachella California, made quick work of Isis Sio (1-3) of North Dakota, knocking her out at 1:18 of the opening round. The 21-year-old Camarillo trapped Sio against the ropes and unloaded an extended salvo that left her light flyweight opponent Sio out cold for several tense minutes. Sio was taken from the ring on a stretcher.
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