Hoàng to defend WBA belt in hometown next month

BoxingHÀ NỘI — Vietnamese World Boxing Association (WBA) Asia Super Middleweight champion Trương Đình Hoàng will defend his belt next month in Đắk Lắk Province. Trương Đình Hoàng announced the bout on his Facebook page on February 26, though the challenger has yet to be named. I will have my first pro match in my home town, the land that fed me and saw my growing up," he wrote. He became Việt Nam's first WBA Asia East Super Middleweight champion after defeating Korean rival Lee Gyu-hyun in 2019. On February 2, 2020, he knocked out Yuttana Wongda of Thailand to lift the WBA Asia belt.