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Chinese Xiong takes back WBC title

Xinhua, February 22, 2015 Adjust font size:

Chinese Xiong Chaozhong beat Japanese Hiroya Yamamoto to win the World Boxing Council (WBC) minimumweight championship here on Sunday.

The 32-year-old Xiong, the first professional boxing champion from China as he beat Javier Martinez Resendiz of Mexico in Kunming for the vacant WBC minimumweight title on Nov. 24, 2012, outpointed the Japanese in the 10-round bout.

The Yunnan native lost his title to Mexican Oswaldo Novoa on Feb. 5, 2014 and then lost the International Boxing Organization (IBO) and WBA title fight against South Africa's Hekkie Budler on Oct. 25 the same year. Endi