WBO Champ John Riel Casimero excited for pay-per-view debut

Jonjo Tuesday, September 01, 2020

After months of training for a unification match that didn’t happen, WBO Bantamweight Champion John Riel Casimero is eager to defend his crown in his pay-per-view debut on Sept. 26 in Connecticut.

John Riel Casimero still wants Naoya Inoue, but won’t look past Duke Micah on Sept. 26 #CasimeroMicah #CharloDerevyanchenko #CharloRosario

More: https://t.co/H8mYg5u22H pic.twitter.com/Ulj3uxw54p
— Bad Left Hook (@badlefthook) August 31, 2020

5 world title bouts. 2 cards. 1 night. 1 PPV price.

🏆 Charlo 🆚 Derevyanchenko
🏆 Charlo 🆚 Rosario - 154lb unification
🏆 Figueroa 🆚 Vasquez
🏆 Casimero 🆚 Micah
🏆 Nery 🆚 Alameda pic.twitter.com/FVX0ifiD0d
— SHOWTIME Boxing (@ShowtimeBoxing) August 26, 2020

John Riel Casimero (born February 13, 1990 in Ormoc, Leyte, Philippines), more commonly known as Johnriel Casimero, is a Filipino professional boxer. He is a three-weight world champion, having held the WBO bantamweight title since November 2019 and previously, the IBF junior-flyweight title from 2012 to 2013 and the IBF flyweight title in 2016, as well as the WBO interim junior-flyweight title from 2009 to 2010 and WBO interim bantamweight title in 2019. Quadro Alas is Tagalog for four of a kind when translated, his moniker means Four Aces. Casimero currently resides in barangay Guizo in Mandaue City, Cebu, where he trains and lives in the city's IPI Gym.^[1]