Friday, tenth of May at the Midas Hotel & Casino in Manila. The vacant WBC Asian Continental title will be on the line. This will be the first outing for the Filipino southpaw in the calendar year, following a rollercoaster 2023 where he toppled previously unbeaten Murodjon Akhmadaliev last April by split decision in a minor upset for the IBF & WBA super bantamweight titles only to immediately surrender them in a unification KO loss to Naoya Inoue the day after Christmas. He previously had been WBO champ down at bantam from July of 2016 until April of 2017 (with technically zero defenses as he failed to make weight versus Shohei Omori). His opponent has previously enjoyed all of his success domestically, on his native Thai soil - with Jankaew's best stretch coming over a 14 month period where he beat three of his country's aging former contenders in gymmates Wicha "Pigmy Kokietgym" Phulaikhao, Karoon "Petchbarngborn Kokietgym" Jarupianlerd, and Wittawas "Samartlek Kokietgym" Basapean. Since then, however, Jankaew has gone 3-3 including being stopped twice in a row, with two victories over debutants and the other guy toting a 19-26-2 record.
8 bouts card starts at 5pm local time (5am EST), with Reymart Grande "Assassin" Gaballo vs. Kenbun Jianwen Torres Martínez in the bantamweight 8-rounder co-main event. It ought to stream on the Sanman Boxing socials: https://www.facebook.com/SanmanPromotions
