Fighter profile<\/p>\n
Record27 wins, 4 lossesTitlesWBO bantamweight championDivisionBantamweight (118 lb)NationalityMexicanBorn2000NicknameChispaHeight \/ reach165 cm (5ft 5in) \/ 170 cm (67in)Last fightBeat Adrian Curiel, February 2026The story so far<\/p>\n
Christian “Chispa” Medina lost three decisions early in his career and a fourth, to Ryosuke Nishida in an IBF eliminator in 2023. He has never been stopped.<\/p>\n
In September 2025 he went to Nagoya as the challenger, dropped unbeaten WBO champion Yoshiki Takei in the first round and stopped him in the fourth with pressure and right uppercuts.<\/p>\n
In February 2026 he made his first defence, beating Adrian Curiel on a unanimous decision over 12 competitive rounds.<\/p>\n
Key fights2023: lost to Ryosuke Nishida on a unanimous decision, IBF eliminator2025: stopped Yoshiki Takei in round 4 to win the WBO bantamweight title, Nagoya2026: beat Adrian Curiel on a unanimous decision, first defenceWhat’s next<\/p>\n
No fight is confirmed. A unification with WBA champion Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez<\/a> has been discussed for the end of the year. The other bantamweight champions are Takuma Inoue<\/a> (WBC) and Jose Salas Reyes<\/a> (IBF).<\/p>\n Record and fight details from boxing-data.com, Matchroom, the WBO and Fightnews. Published knockout totals differ (17 or 19), so we have left them out. Checked 3 November 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fighter profile Record27 wins, 4 lossesTitlesWBO bantamweight championDivisionBantamweight (118 lb)NationalityMexicanBorn2000NicknameChispaHeight \/ reach165 cm (5ft 5in) \/ 170 cm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-951593","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\/951593","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=951593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}