On April 23, 2014, Kiko Martínez (30-4, 22 KOs), the super-bantamweight IBF champion, defends his title against former world champion Hozumi Hasegawa (33-4, 15 KOs).
Kiko Martínez is coming in to the fight on a 3-fight win streak with a 64% KO rate; his last fight was a 9th round KO victory over Jeffrey Mathebula, 4 months and 2 days ago. Hozumi Hasegawa is on a 4-fight win streak with a 40% KO rate, with his last fight being a 1st round TKO win over Genaro Camargo, 8 months and 11 days ago.
The winning odds are at 93.6-6.4 in favor of Kiko Martínez. It is going to be very difficult for Hozumi Hasegawa to win this fight.
Kiko Martínez stopped Hozumi Hasegawa via TKO in the 7th round of the 12-round world-title fight, and successfully defended his IBF super-bantamweight title. Martínez improves his record to 31-4 (23 KOs), while Hasegawa adds a loss to his record at 33-5.