GABRIEL Santisima from Cebu has entered the world boxing rankings after winning a regional title in Japan.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old boxer is now ranked No. 10 by the World Boxing Organization (WBO) and No. 14 by the International Boxing Federation (IBF) in the super-bantamweight division.<\/p>\n
The division is currently ruled by Japanese boxing star Naoya Inoue, who holds all four major world championship belts.<\/p>\n
Santisima earned his place in the rankings after defeating highly rated Japanese fighter Subaru Murata on Feb. 7, 2026, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.<\/p>\n
Entering the fight as a big underdog, Santisima surprised many fans by winning through a unanimous decision. He also captured the WBO Asia-Pacific super-bantamweight title in the process.<\/p>\n
Before that victory, Santisima had bounced back from a loss to Chinese boxer Zhong Liu last year. He won two fights in a row against Ramel Antaran and Jason Mopon.<\/p>\n
Those wins helped him earn a chance to face Murata, who was rising in the super-bantamweight division. Before their match, Murata was ranked No. 7 by the World Boxing Council (WBC).<\/p>\n
During their fight, Santisima showed strong skills and even knocked Murata down once on his way to a big upset victory.<\/p>\n
Santisima trains under coach Michael Domingo at the Zip-Sanman Wellness Center in Cebu City. He is also the younger brother of former ALA Boy and world title challenger Jeo Santisima. \/ EKA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GABRIEL Santisima from Cebu has entered the world boxing rankings after winning a regional title in Japan. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-528942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}