Fernando Daniel Martínez (born 18 July 1991) is an

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who has held the

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(WBA)

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title since July 2024. He also previously held the

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(IBF) super flyweight title from 2022 to 2024.

Amateur career

He competed in the men's flyweight event at the

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Professional career

Early career

Martínez made his professional debut against Juan Ignacio Haran on 25 August 2017. He won the fight by a fourth-round stoppage. Martínez amassed a 10–0 record during the next two years, with six victories coming by way of stoppage. Martínez had his first step-up fight on 16 December 2019, as he was scheduled to challenge the reigning WBC Silver

champion Athenkosi Dumezweni. The bout took place in

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in South Africa, and was Martínez's first outside of Argentina. He won the fight by an upset eleventh-round technical knockout, stopping Dumezweni with a flurry of punches at the 0:23 minute mark. Martínez next faced Angel Nicolas Aquino on 11 December 2020, at the

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. He won the closely contested bout by split decision, with scores of 95–94, 97–92 and 94–95. Martínez faced Gonzalo Garcia Duran in a stay-busy fight on 13 August 2021, at the Hotel Atlantis The Palm in

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. He won the fight by a fourth-round technical knockout, stopping Duran with eight seconds left in the round.

IBF super flyweight champion

Martínez vs Ancajas

Martínez was booked to challenge the reigning IBF

champion

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on 26 February 2022, in what was Ancajas' tenth title defense. The title fight was scheduled for the undercard of the

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and Hector Garcia WBA super featherweight bout, which took place at the Cosmopolitan in

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. Despite entering the fight as the underdog, Martínez captured the title by an upset unanimous decision. One judge scored the fight 117–111 in his favor, while the remaining two judges awarded him a 118–110 scorecard. Martínez landed 427 out of 1046 total punches thrown, while Ancajas landed 192 out of 816 total punches. On 22 July 2022, it was revealed that Ancajas had invoked his rematch clause. As such, Martínez was booked to face

in an immediate rematch in his first championship defense, which took place on 8 October 2022, at the Home Depot Center in

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. The bout was scheduled for the undercard of the

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and

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interim WBC middleweight title bout. He retained the title by unanimous decision, with two scorecards of 118–110 and one scorecard of 119–109.

Martínez vs Bornea

On 16 December 2022, the IBF formally ordered Martínez to make a mandatory title defense against

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. As the pair failed to reach terms, a purse bid was called for 17 January 2023, which was postponed to allow for further negotiations, but eventually rescheduled for 14 February and won by TGB Promotions with a bid of $25,000. The championship bout took place on 24 June 2023, at the

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. Martínez won the fight by an eleventh-round technical knockout.

Martínez vs Ioka

It was revealed by various outlets on 4 April 2024, that Martínez would face the WBA flyweight champion

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in a title unification bout. Event organizers, "Lifetime Boxing Fights", officially announced the bout during a press conference held in Tokyo, Japan on 22 April. The bout would take place at the

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in Tokyo on 7 July 2024 and would be broadcast worldwide by

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. Martínez beat the WBA flyweight champion Kazuto Ioka, with scores of 116—112, 117—111, and 120—108.

Professional boxing record

References

External links

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