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Jhonny González is a Mexican

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

professional boxer and is the current WBC

World Boxing Council

The World Boxing Council was initially established by 11 countries: the United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Philippines, Panama, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Brazil plus Puerto Rico, met in Mexico City on February 14, 1963, upon invitation of the then President of Mexico, Adolfo...

featherweight champion. He is also a former WBO

World Boxing Organization

The World Boxing Organization is a sanctioning organization currently recognizing professional boxing world champions. The organization is recognized as one of the four major world championship groups by the IBHOF alongside the International Boxing Federation, the World Boxing Council and the...

bantamweight champion, and a former IBO

International Boxing Organization

The International Boxing Organization is a for-profit organization that sanctions professional boxing matches and awards world and subordinate championships.- Origins :...

featherweight champion.

Bantamweight

On October 29, 2005, González defeated Ratanachai Sor Vorapin

Ratanachai Sor Vorapin

Ratanachai Sor Vorapin is a professional boxer and a former WBO bantamweight champion. He is the younger brother of Ratanapol Sor Vorapin, a former IBF strawweight champion.-Professional career:...

by a technical knockout in the seventh round, for the WBO

World Boxing Organization

bantamweight championship. On May 27, 2006, he defended it successfully against Fernando Montiel

Fernando Montiel

Fernando Montiel Martínez is a Mexican professional boxer in the Bantamweight division. Fernando is a former WBO Flyweight, WBO Super Flyweight and WBO and WBC Bantamweight champion.-Early life:...

with a 2-1 split decision.

Super Bantamweight

While still holding the title he won from Sor Vorapin, Gonzalez went up in weight and attempted to capture the WBC

World Boxing Council

super-bantamweight title on September 16, 2006. However, he lost to Israel Vázquez

Israel Vázquez

Israel Vázquez Castañeda is a Mexican professional boxer. He is a former Super Bantamweight world champion, having held titles at this weight from 2004 to 2008...

by a knockout and chose to return to bantamweight.

His second defense of his WBO bantamweight title was also successful when González beat former IBF

IBF

IBF may refer to:*International Boxing Federation is one of several boxing organisations* International Bandy Federation former name of Federation of International Bandy , an international governing body for bandy...

flyweight champ Irene Pacheco

Irene Pacheco

Irene Pacheco also known as Mambaco is a Colombian boxer former world champion in the IBF Flyweight category....

on March 30, 2007. On his third defense however, González was dethroned by 35 year old Gerry Penalosa

Gerry Peñalosa

Geronimo Peñalosa , more commonly known as Gerry Peñalosa, is a retired Filipino professional boxer....

, who knocked him out in the 7th round on August 11, 2007.

On May 23, 2009, González challenged Toshiaki Nishioka

Toshiaki Nishioka

is a Japanese professional boxer who is the current WBC super bantamweight champion. Nishioka is currently ranked as the #1 super bantamweight in the world by The Ring and ESPN. Unlike most other Japan's world champions, Nishioka has been willing to fight outside of his own country.- 1976 to 1990s...

for the WBC

World Boxing Council

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....

Title in Monterrey

Monterrey

Monterrey , is the capital city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León in the country of Mexico. The city is anchor to the third-largest metropolitan area in Mexico and is ranked as the ninth-largest city in the nation. Monterrey serves as a commercial center in the north of the country and is the...

, Mexico

Mexico

. González downed Nishioka in Round 1 but eventually lost by KO in Round 3, failing in his attempt to capture the Title.

After the fight against Nishioka, Gonzalez decide to change his team, he had always been trained by his father "Miguel Angel "Raton" Gonzalez", but now he is under the lessons of Ignacio Beristain

Ignacio Beristáin

Ignacio Beristáin is a Mexican trainer in the sport of boxing. Beristain is a member of the Boxing Hall of Fame and is considered one of the greatest trainers in the history of boxing.-Training career:...

Featherweight

Gonzales then decided to abandon the super bantamweight category and start visualizing himself like a featherweight word champion.

Gonzalez won the WBC

World Boxing Council

International Featherweight title on December 16, 2009, against Marlon Aguilar. The fight took place at the Auditorio Plaza Condesa in Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

. Gonzales won the bout by TKO in round 4 and following these events, he looked for a new attempt to become a Mexican world champion. On March 20, 2010, Gonzales took on Antonio Davis at the City Discothèque in Cancun

Cancún

Cancún is a city of international tourism development certified by the UNWTO . Located on the northeast coast of Quintana Roo in southern Mexico, more than 1,700 km from Mexico City, the Project began operations in 1974 as Integrally Planned Center, a pioneer of FONATUR Cancún is a city of...

, Quintana Roo

Quintana Roo

Quintana Roo officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Quintana Roo is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 10 municipalities and its capital city is Chetumal....

, in a WBC Featherweight Title Eliminator; the former WBO champion won by technical knockout in the second round, when the referee stopped the fight after Davis failed to respond following four consecutive knockdowns.

In his next bout, González fought Colombian Aristides Perez for the WBC FECARBOX

Fecarbox

Fecarbox refers to Federacion Centroamericana de Boxeo Profesional--a Central American sanctioning body within José Sulaimán's World Boxing Council. Some consider this an alphabet soup sanctioning body.-Other world organizations:...

featherweight title. González indicated that he had been training hard for the upcoming bout, seeking for a world title shot. The Mexican was originally scheduled to fight Ira Terry, but the latter was replaced by Perez just a few days before the contest. The event was held in Campeche, Mexico, on July 24, 2010. The Pachuca native won the match by TKO in the second round, after knocking Perez down a few moments before.

González challenged Jackson Asiku on September 15, 2010, at the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas, with the IBO Featherweight title on the line. The Mexican pugilist defeated his opponent by TKO in the 6th round, to win the IBO Featherweight title.

WBC Featherweight Championship

González visited Japan in an unstable situation after the Sendai earthquake

2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, also known as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, or the Great East Japan Earthquake, was a magnitude 9.0 undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST on Friday, 11 March 2011, with the epicenter approximately east...

to win the WBC

World Boxing Council

Featherweight

Featherweight is a weight class division in the sport of boxing. There are similarly named divisions under several Mixed Martial Arts organizations and in Greco-Roman wrestling.-Professional boxing:...

Championship via a fourth round technical knockout over Hozumi Hasegawa

Hozumi Hasegawa

is a professional boxer and a former WBC world bantamweight champion and former WBC world Featherweight champion. He received consecutive MVP awards from the Japanese Boxing Commission in 2005 and 2006 for his title defenses, and is the only Japanese boxer to have defended a world bantamweight...

as a mandatory challenger at the World Memorial Hall

World Memorial Hall

World Hall or World Memorial Hall is a multi-purpose arena, located in the Chūō-ku Ward of Kobe, Japan. It has a maximum capacity of 8,000 people and is optimized for large-scale meetings, sport events, trade shows and concerts...

in Kobe

Kobe

, pronounced , is the fifth-largest city in Japan and is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture on the southern side of the main island of Honshū, approximately west of Osaka...

on April 8, 2011.

Professional record

Rogers Mtagwa

Rogers Mtagwa is a Tanzanian professional boxer who currently competes in the featherweight and super bantamweight divisions. Mtagwa is most notable for having fought for a version of the world title at both featherweight and super bantamweight...

Tomas Villa

Tomas Villa is a Mexican boxer in the Lightweight division and is the former IBA Featherweight Champion.-IBA Featherweight Championship:...

Hozumi Hasegawa

Toshiaki Nishioka

Mauricio Pastrana

Mauricio Antonio Pastrana Tapi, more commonly known as Mauricio Pastrana, is a Colombian professional boxer who fights in the super bantamweight division.-Professional career:...

Gerry Penalosa

Gerry Peñalosa

Geronimo Peñalosa , more commonly known as Gerry Peñalosa, is a retired Filipino professional boxer....

Irene Pacheco

Irene Pacheco also known as Mambaco is a Colombian boxer former world champion in the IBF Flyweight category....

Israel Vázquez

Israel Vázquez Castañeda is a Mexican professional boxer. He is a former Super Bantamweight world champion, having held titles at this weight from 2004 to 2008...

Fernando Montiel

Fernando Montiel Martínez is a Mexican professional boxer in the Bantamweight division. Fernando is a former WBO Flyweight, WBO Super Flyweight and WBO and WBC Bantamweight champion.-Early life:...

Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson (boxer)

Marcellus Joseph Johnson, better known as Mark Johnson is a boxer in the Super Flyweight division. Johnson a fast and skilled southpaw from Washington, D.C., won titles at flyweight and junior bantamweight twice. He also was a pound-for-pound ranked stalwart during the prime of his career, which...

Ratanachai Sor Vorapin

Ratanachai Sor Vorapin is a professional boxer and a former WBO bantamweight champion. He is the younger brother of Ratanapol Sor Vorapin, a former IBF strawweight champion.-Professional career:...

Adonis Rivas

Adonis Antonio Rivas Ordóñez is a professional boxer in the super flyweight division.- Boxing career :Rivas turned professional in 1995 and captured the WBO super flyweight title with a decision win over Diego Morales in 1999. He defended the belt twice before losing it to Pedro Alcázar in 2001...

Alejandro Felix Montiel

Alejandro Félix Montiel is a Mexican professional boxer and is the former IBA Flyweight Champion. Alejandro is the cousin of former three-time World Champion, Fernando Montiel.-Professional career:...

Titles

WBO Bantamweight World Champion
IBO Featherweight World Champion
WBC Featherweight World Champion

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