Pictured: WBA super bantamweight champion Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Earlier today, in Japan and in Australia, three boxers currently included in TTR's divisional rankings, were in action. Two, Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym and Anthony Mundine, won while the other, Juan Carlos Salgado, tasted defeat for the first time as a professional.



Tokyo, Japan- TTR #3 ranked super bantamweight Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym retained the WBA title with a hard-fought, well deserved 12-round, majority decision over TTR unranked Satoshi "Bazooka" Hosono. Judges Tom Miller and Michael Lee scored the bout for the defending champion, 115-113 and 117-113 respectively. Judge Raul Caiz, Sr. scored it even, 114-114. TTR had it 117-111 for Kratingdaenggym who improved to 40-1 with 28 KOs. Hosono, who had vacated the OPBF featherweight title and moved down to 122 pounds for this fight, is now 16-1 with 12 KOs.



Tokyo, Japan- TTR unranked Takashi Uchiyama stopped TTR #5 ranked super featherweight Juan Carlos Salgado at 2:48 of the 12th and final round to win the WBA championship. Salgado, making his first defense of the title he had ripped from Jorge Linares in October, was trailing on all three scorecards at the time of the stoppage. The undefeated Uchiyama, who had voluntarily relinquished the OPBF super featherweight title so that he could challenge Salgado, upped his record to 14-0 with 11 KOs. Salgado fell to 21-1-1 with 15 KOs.



Sydney, New South Wales, Australia- TTR #4 ranked middleweight Anthony Mundine won the vacant WBA International title with a 12-round, unanimous decision over TTR unranked Robert Medley. The scores were 117-115, 117-112, and 117-113. This is the second time Mundine has won the WBA's International title. He captured it the first time by outpointing Shannan Taylor in his bout prior to winning the IBO middleweight title from Daniel Geale. The victory over Geale was not without controversy and the IBO issued an edict mandating Mundine give Geale a rematch. Rather than comply, Mundine chose to fight for the IBO's vacant title at 154 pounds, thus relinquishing the IBO's title at 160. He was originally scheduled to fight Medley for the IBO version of the world junior middleweight title but a disagreement with the IBO over the assigned officials (and, most likely, an inability to make the junior middleweight limit) caused Mundine to pass up his opportunity to capture a second IBO belt. Instead, with the WBA sanctioning the bout, Mundine and Medley met as middleweights; Mundine weighing in at 159, Medley at 158. The win raised Mundine's record to 38-3 with 23 KOs. The loss leaves Medley, who holds the IBO Inter-Continental and IBF Interim Australasian junior middleweight titles, at 27-3 with 17 KOs.