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SOSA RETAINS WBC INTERNATIONAL FLYWEIGHT TITLE

By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Mon, 22 Nov 2010

Former WBC light flyweight champion Edgar Sosa who lost his title to the Philippines Rodel Mayol by a somewhat controversial 2nd round TKO on November 21, 2009 has successfully defended his flyweight international crown with a unanimous twelve round decision over Japan?s Masafumi Okubo in Monterrey, Mexico.

Sosa wrested the WBC International title from Ryan Bito of the Philippines with a 10th round TKO on September 11 after dropping Bito twice in the round.

With the win Sosa the 31 year old Sosa improved to 41-6 with 24 knockouts while the loss dropped the 30 year old Okubo, the former Oriental and Pacific champion to 18-4-1 with 6 knockouts.

All three judges had Sosa a comfortable winner by scores of 120-108, 118-110 and 119-109.

Okubo lost his OPBF title by a majority decision to hard-hitting Filipino Rocky Fuentes in Japan last March 9.


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