JADE “HURRICANE” BORNEA knocked out Italian-Moroccan fighter Mohammed Obaddi in the the third round in their International Boxing Federation (IBF) title eliminator on Saturday in Monterrey, Mexico.
Up next for Bornea, who became the No. 1 challenger in the super flyweight class, is no less that fellow Filipino and IBF world champion Jerwin “The Pretty Boy” Ancajas.
But Bornea said he’ll avoid that 115-pound fight with Ancajas.
“I don’t want to fight Jerwin [Ancajas], I don’t like to fight a fellow Filipino,” the unbeaten 26-year-old fighter from San Francisco, Agusan del Sur, told BusinessMirror through an internet call from Los Angeles, California, on Sunday. “But it’s up to our promoter on what’s next. But for me, I am willing to wait long enough to fight for a world title as long as it’s not against a fellow Filipino.”
MP Promotions President Sean Gibbons said that Ancajas will be fighting Argentina’s Daniel Fernando Martinez next month before taking on World Boxing Organization champion Kazuto Ioka of Japan in a unification bout.
“We already have a contract, so the fight will happen anytime this year,” Gibbons said of the Ancajas-Ioka fight which was originally set last December 31 in Tokyo but was postponed by the Japanese government because of the surge in Covdi-19 O micron variant infections.
Bornea—who has two kids, Messegi and Joaquin, with wife Marvie Mae—improved his win-loss record to 17-0 with 11 knockouts.
The only way for Bornea to avoid a fight with Ancajas is for the reigning champion to give up his IBF belt—which he won in September 2016 in Taguig City against Puerto Rican McJoe Arroyo—and campaign in a higher weight division.