Wilfredo Méndez (born 10 November 1996) is a Puerto Rican professional boxer who held the WBO mini flyweight title between August 2019 to December 2021.
[3] Méndez was scheduled to fight Leyman Benavides on March 17, 2018, for the vacant WBA Fedelatin mini flyweight title.
[7] Following a sixth-round knockout of Armando Vazquez in a non-title bout on March 8, 2019, Méndez was scheduled to defend his WBO-NABO title against Janiel Rivera on May 24, 2019.
Throughout the bout, Méndez utilized outfighting tactics to keep distance from the pressuring Saludar, who scored the only knockdown of the fight in round 3.
[21] On October 7, 2021, the WBO ordered Méndez to make his third mini-flyweight title defense against the mandatory challenger Masataka Taniguchi.
Méndez would face Taniguchi on December 14, 2021, on the undercard of the Naoya Inoue and Aran Dipaen bantamweight title bout.
[25] Méndez was booked to face Kenny Cano in an eight-round mini-flyweight bout on April 8, 2022, at the Pabellon de Esgrima in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
[26] Prior to this fight, Méndez switched camps and began training with the former three-time WBO junior lightweight world champion Román Martínez.
The fight was scheduled for the undercard of the Alexis Rocha and Anthony Young welterweight bout, which took place at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California.
[33] Méndez is scheduled to face the undefeated Yudai Shigeoka for the interim WBC mini flyweight championship on April 16, 2023, at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.
Méndez stepped in as a short-notice replacement for the champion Panya Pradabsri, who withdrew with a strep throat infection on April 4.