CRISTIAN MIJARES
Record: 34-3-2 (14 KOs)
Age: 26
Born:  October 2, 1981 in Gomez Palacio, Durango, Mexico
Hometown: Gomez Palacio, Durango, Mexico
Height: 5’ 6”     Weight: 115 Lbs.
WBC Super Flyweight Champion
Rated No. 2 by The Ring Magazine  

WBA super flyweight champion Cristian Mijares is on the verge of cracking various top 10 pound-for-pound lists. A pure, consummate boxer with tremendous defensive skills, Mijares has been boxing professionally since he was 16, largely in his native Mexico.

Mijares made his pro debut August 20, 1997, winning a four-round decision against Pedro Hernandez. Cristian struggled through his first 22 pro fights, losing three times and fighting to one draw. His first 12-round fight was in 2004, when Mijares won a 12-round decision against Tomas Rojas (20-5) in his hometown, Gomez Palacio in Durango, for the Mexican super flyweight title.

In his next five fights, Mijares won each time, successfully defended his Mexican title belt on three occasions. In 2005, Cristian won the vacant WBA Fedelaton super flyweight crown via a third-round TKO of Alimi Goitia (16-3). Two fights later, Mijares fought Luis Maldonado (33-0) to a 12-round majority draw (118-115, 115-115, 114-114) in their 2006 WBC super flyweight title eliminator.

Mijares followed with a successful Mexican super flyweight title defense against Adalberto Davila by sixth-round knockout. On September 18, 2006 in his first pro fight outside of Mexico, Cristian won a 12-round split decision (114-113, 114-113, 113-114) in Japan versus Katsushige Kawashima (30-4) in their WBC Interim super flyweight championship bout.

Two months later, Mijares won another WBC Interim super flyweight bout with a unanimous 12-round decision against Reynaldo Lopez (28-3-2) in Mexico. Back in Japan to fight for the outright WBC super flyweight championship on January 3, 2007, Cristian defeated Kawashima (30-5) in a rematch by 10^th round TKO.

Mijares’ first WBC title defense was the fight that defined his career, at least to this point, when he completely dominated popular Jorge Arce (46-3-1) in the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. The stylish southpaw Mijares bloodied Arce en route to a unanimous 12-round decision (119-109, 118-110, 117-111) that a large audience watched on pay-per-view television.

His first title defense was a one-sided fight against Teppei Kikui (21-5), who was stopped by Cristian in the 10^th round of their July 13, 2007 bout in Mexico. Mijares followed that with a first-round TKO of Franck Gorjux (16-7) in his second title defense.

In his last bout, Mijares kept his belt with a 12-round strangely scored split decision (117-111, 115-113, 108-120) versus Jose Navarro (26-3) in Las Vegas.