Luisito Espinosa wins World Boxing Council featherweight title

Boxing

Luisito Espinosa of the Philippines beat the Mexican holder Manuel Medina to win the World Council featherweight title in Tokyo on a unanimous decision.

Drew Docherty, the British bantamweight champion who was the other fighter involved when James Murray died in a bout in Glasgow in October, is to challenge Puerto Rico's Daniel Jimenez for the World Organisation super-bantamweight title on 20 January at a venue to be decided.