Francisco Arce Armenta
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Francisco Arce Armenta is a Mexican
Mexican people
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 professional boxer
Boxing
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 in the Super Bantamweight
Super Bantamweight
Super bantamweight is a weight division in professional boxing. The maximum weight for this division is 122 pounds, or roughly 55.34 kilograms....

 division. He's a former IBF Latino
International Boxing Federation
The International Boxing Federation or IBF is one of four major organizations recognized by IBHOF which sanction world championship boxing bouts, alongside the WBA, WBC and WBO.- History :...

 Super Flyweight
Super Flyweight
Super flyweight is a weight division in professional boxing. It is alternatively referred to as junior bantamweight and light bantamweight...

 champion and is the current NABF
North American Boxing Federation
The North American Boxing Federation is a not-for-profit regional sanctioning body that awards regional boxing titles. It is a boxing federation within the World Boxing Council .-History:...

 Super Bantamweight
Super Bantamweight
Super bantamweight is a weight division in professional boxing. The maximum weight for this division is 122 pounds, or roughly 55.34 kilograms....

 Champion. Francisco is also the younger brother of former two-division World boxing Champion Jorge Arce
Jorge Arce
Jorge Armando Arce Armenta is a Mexican professional boxer. Arce is the former WBO World Light Flyweight, WBC World Light Flyweight, Interim WBC World Flyweight, Interim WBA World Super Flyweight, WBO World Super Flyweight, WBO World Super Bantamweight, and is the current WBO World Bantamweight...

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Professional career

Early in his career he lost to future world champion Mexican
Mexican people
Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....

 Giovanni Segura
Giovanni Segura
Giovani Segura is a Mexican professional boxer in the light flyweight division. He is The Ring light flyweight champion and former WBA and WBO champion. Ring Magazine currently rates Segura as the number nine pound-for-pound boxer in the world.-Professional career:Segura made his professional...

 in Maywood, California
Maywood, California
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In November 2008, Francisco won the IBF Latino
International Boxing Federation
The International Boxing Federation or IBF is one of four major organizations recognized by IBHOF which sanction world championship boxing bouts, alongside the WBA, WBC and WBO.- History :...

 Super Flyweight
Super Flyweight
Super flyweight is a weight division in professional boxing. It is alternatively referred to as junior bantamweight and light bantamweight...

 champion by beating William De Sousa of Panama
Panama
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NABF Super Bantamweight Championship

On October 9, 2010 Arce beat former WBO
World Boxing Organization
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 Champion Isidro García
Isidro García
Isidro Ayala García is a former Mexican boxer in the Featherweight division. He is the former WBO Flyweight Champion.-Professional career:...

, to win the NABF
North American Boxing Federation
The North American Boxing Federation is a not-for-profit regional sanctioning body that awards regional boxing titles. It is a boxing federation within the World Boxing Council .-History:...

 Super Bantamweight
Super Bantamweight
Super bantamweight is a weight division in professional boxing. The maximum weight for this division is 122 pounds, or roughly 55.34 kilograms....

 Championship.

WBA Bantamweight Championship

In his next fight Francisco will face WBA World
World Boxing Association
The World Boxing Association is a boxing organization that sanctions official matches, and awards the WBA world championship title at the professional level. It was previously known as the National Boxing Association before changing its name in 1962...

 Bantamweight Champion, Hugo Ruiz
Hugo Ruiz
Hugo Ruiz Dominguez is a Mexican professional boxer in the bantamweight division and is the current interim World Boxing Association bantamweight champion.-Professional career:...

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