Filipino boxing champion Pedro Taduran regains the IBF minimumweight belt.

Taduran dethroned Ginjiro Shigeoka of Japan on Sunday, July 28, via a technical knock-out in the ninth-round in front of the latter's home-crowd in Otsu City.

With ten seconds left in the round, the Filipino boxer released a flurry of punches at a bent-over Shigeoka, and prompted the referee to put an end to the match.

The Philippines now has two reigining world boxing champions: Taduran, and WBC world minimumweight champion Melvin Jerusalem.