Boxing: Higa defends title

Boxing: Higa defends title

NAHA, Japan, Feb. 4 Kyodo - Japan's Daigo Higa (R) celebrates after defending his WBC flyweight title with a first-round knockout of Mexico's Moises Fuentes in Naha, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 4, 2018.

Boxing: Inoue fights in exhibition match

Boxing: Inoue fights in exhibition match

WBA and IBF bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue (L) and former WBC flyweight champion Daigo Higa fight in a boxing exhibition match at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo on Feb. 11, 2021.

Boxing: Inoue fights in exhibition match

Boxing: Inoue fights in exhibition match

WBA and IBF bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue (L) and former WBC flyweight champion Daigo Higa fight in a boxing exhibition match at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo on Feb. 11, 2021.

Boxing: Inoue fights in exhibition match

Boxing: Inoue fights in exhibition match

WBA and IBF bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue (R) and former WBC flyweight champion Daigo Higa praise each other after their boxing exhibition match at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo on Feb. 11, 2021.

Boxing: Higa fails to make weight, stripped of WBC flyweight belt

Boxing: Higa fails to make weight, stripped of WBC flyweight belt

WBC flyweight champion Daigo Higa of Japan is weighed in Tokyo on April 14, 2018, the eve of his title defense against Cristofer Rosales of Nicaragua. The Japanese was stripped of his title belt later in the day after he failed to make weight. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Boxing: Higa fails to make weight, stripped of WBC flyweight belt

Boxing: Higa fails to make weight, stripped of WBC flyweight belt

Former WBA light flyweight champ Yoko Gushiken apologizes in Tokyo on April 14, 2018, after his fighter Daigo Higa was stripped of his WBC flyweight belt earlier in the day after failing to make weight on the eve of his title defense against Cristofer Rosales of Nicaragua. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Boxing: WBC flyweight champion Daigo Higa

Boxing: WBC flyweight champion Daigo Higa

WBC flyweight champion Daigo Higa (L) of Japan poses with the head of his boxing gym, Yoko Gushiken, in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Feb. 5, 2018, a day after successfully defending his world title for a second time. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Boxing: Higa defends title

Boxing: Higa defends title

Japan's Daigo Higa (L) lands a punch on Mexico's Moises Fuentes in the first round of a WBC flyweight title match in Naha, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 4, 2018. Higa defended his title. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Boxing: Higa defends title

Boxing: Higa defends title

Japan's Daigo Higa (R) lands a punch on Mexico's Moises Fuentes in the first round of a WBC flyweight title match in Naha, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 4, 2018. Higa defended his title. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Boxing: Higa defends title

Boxing: Higa defends title

Japan's Daigo Higa celebrates after defending his WBC flyweight title with a first-round knockout of Mexico's Moises Fuentes in Naha, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 4, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Boxing: Higa to hold world title fight on home island Okinawa in Feb.

Boxing: Higa to hold world title fight on home island Okinawa in Feb.

WBC flyweight champion Daigo Higa of Japan speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2017. Higa will face Mexican challenger Moises Fuentes on his home island of Okinawa on Feb. 4, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Boxing: Higa to make 1st title defense in Oct.

Boxing: Higa to make 1st title defense in Oct.

WBC flyweight champion Daigo Higa (L) of Japan poses with the head of his boxing gym Yoko Gushiken in Tokyo on Aug. 23, 2017. Higa said he will make his first title defense on Oct. 22 against Thomas Masson of France at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo