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WBA Asia Boxing Championship to take place in Vietnam for first time

Three continental-level matches of the WBA Asia Boxing Championship (LEAD: BORN TO LEAD) will take place at the Saigon Sports Club in Ho Chi Minh City on March 25, the Ho Chi Minh City Boxing Federation (HBF) announced on February 22.
WBA Asia Boxing Championship to take place in Vietnam for first time ảnh 1The poster of the championship. (Photo: VNA)

HCM City(VNA) – Three continental-levelmatches of the WBA Asia Boxing Championship (LEAD: BORN TO LEAD) will takeplace at the Saigon Sports Club in Ho Chi Minh City on March 25, the Ho ChiMinh City Boxing Federation (HBF) announced on February 22.

LEAD's fanpage also announced a posterfeaturing the top two Vietnamese boxers who hold the WBA Asia championshipbelts, Truong Dinh Hoang and the world's No. 8 Le Huu Toan. They will defendtheir titles against rivals from the Republic of Korea and the Philippines intwo thrilling matches.

Toan will take on World Boxing Council (WBC) No. 8 Garen Diagan from the Philippines for the World Boxing Association (WBA) Asia minimumweight (48kg) strap.

Meanwhile, Hoang will go up against the RoK's No.1 and WBA Asia No. 11 Baek Dae Hyun for the super middleweight (76kg) WBA Asia belt.

This will be Toan's second title defence after he beat Filipino Jake Amparo on points after 12 rounds in Bangkok, Thailand. The victory pushed him to the WBA's No. 8 place in the world rankings.

Diagan is a top athlete in his home country and No. 6 in the WBC rankings. The 26-year-old is No. 15 in the world, eight places higher than the Vietnamese representative. Diagan has recorded nine wins (5KOs) and three losses (1KO). He won a local professional championship in 2019 before challenging for the WBC Asia belt last July but came up short.
The March 25 match against Toan is his third continental title bout.

In the later fight, 'The King' Hoang will face Baek, the RoK's leading pro boxer. The 25-year-old Korean is No. 102 of 1,371 boxers in his weight class in the world. He is 303 places higher than Hoang.

If successful, this will be the first timethat Hoang and Toan have defended their WBA Asia championship belts on the home turf, saidthe HBF.

Promising boxer Nguyen Ngoc Hai will also befighting in this tournament, with the hope of bringing another WBA Asiachampionship belt to Vietnam.

LEAD: BORN TO LEAD isthe second tournament in the LEAD professional boxing series organised by the HDFin collaboration with Shadow Entertainment Company. The aim is to build LEAD asa platform for Vietnamese boxers to compete at the same level as internationaltournaments, and to become a solid launching pad for Vietnamese boxers to reachthe world stage./. 

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