Joshua Franco

Joshua Franco (born October 27, 1995) is an American former professional boxer who held the World Boxing Association (WBA) super flyweight title between 2020 and 2023.

Franco made his professional debut on August 6, 2015, scoring a four-round split decision (SD) victory over Temoatzin Landeros at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles, California.

The rematch was scheduled for April 25, 2019, as the co-main event of a junior welterweight bout between Yves Ulysse Jr. and Steve Claggett, and was broadcast by DAZN.

[10] After compiling a record of 16–1–2 (8 KOs) he challenged WBA (Regular) super flyweight champion, Andrew Moloney, on June 23, 2020, at the MGM Grand in Paradise, Nevada.

After a competitive back-and-forth fight in which Franco scored a knockdown in the eleventh round, he defeated Moloney via twelve-round unanimous decision (UD) to capture the WBA (Regular) title.

[11] The pair agreed to fight an immediate rematch on November 14, 2020, at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Paradise, Nevada, on the undercard of the Terence Crawford and Kell Brook welterweight title bout.

[13] Due to the controversial nature of their second meeting, a trilogy bout was scheduled for August 14, 2021, which took place at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

[24] On October 11, 2022, it was revealed that Franco has entered into negotiations for a title unification fight with the reigning WBO super flyweight champion Kazuto Ioka.

[26][27] On November 4, the WBO furthermore ordered the winner of the fight to face the sanctioning body's former flyweight champion Junto Nakatani in a mandatory title defense no later than 180 days afterwards.