WBO champion Rafael Espinoza leads the pack at 126-pounds, but who else is climbing the rankings among elite contenders and other divisional beltholders?

Carrington, of Brooklyn, New York, has been particularly critical of England’s Ball, who is scheduled to defend his title against Australia’s Sam Goodman on Aug. 16 at ANB Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on DAZN.

“El Chinito” Leo came into the fight after scoring a massive upset knockout win against Luis Alberto Lopez in August to notch the 126-pound title he now carries.

Angelo Leo defeated Tomoki Kameda by majority decision to retain his IBF featherweight title at Yamato Arena in Kameda’s hometown of Osaka, Japan.

The stage is set for Angelo Leo to make the first defense of his IBF featherweight title against former beltholder Tomoki Kameda in Osaka, Japan on May 24th. (Photos by Wendell Alinea)

This weekend, Angelo Leo's maiden IBF featherweight world title defence in Osaka kickstarts a busy boxing month across Japan featuring seven world title fights across six weight divisions.

Former bantamweight titlist Tomoki Kameda will be hoping to make the most of his second shot at a featherweight title. Kameda, who came up short against then WBC champion Rey Vargas (UD 12) in July 2019, will face IBF ruler Angelo Leo at the Intex Osaka, Osaka, Japan, on Saturday.

Kameda is No. 1 on his radar. He doesn’t have the highest profile, but Leo is set to travel to Japan to defend his IBF featherweight title against him on May 24.

IBF featherweight world champion Angelo Leo (25-1, 12 KOs) will make the first defense of his world title against Tomoki Kameda (42-4, 23 KOs) on May 24 at the Intex Osaka in Osaka, Japan.

Angelo Leo has a new fight date but the same opponent and destination. The Ring has confirmed that Leo’s IBF featherweight title defense against mandatory challenger Tomoki Kameda will now take place on May 24 at Yamato Arena in Osaka, Japan. The fight was previously targeted for late March as part of Kameda Promotions’ ‘Lush BOMU Vol. 4’ event, but has now moved to the later date.