WBO Convention Awards at Gala Dinner in Tokyo, Japan

In a festive atmosphere, the WBO 32^nd Annual Convention celebrated their Awards in a very crowded Gala Dinner at the Tokyo Dome Hotel.

WBO Fighter of The Year:

Unified WBO Lightweight Champion Vasiliy Lomachenko (right)

WBO Female Fighter of the Year:

WBO Featherweight World Champion Amanda Serrano

WBO Most Consistent and Durable Champion:

WBO Welterweight World Champion Terence Crawford

Special WBO Diamond Ring for more than five title defenses:

WBO Flyweight World Champion Kosei Tanaka

WBO Manager of the Year:

Egis Klimas

WBO Trainer of the Year

Anatoly Lomachenko

WBO Promoter of the Year

Bob Arum (Top Rank)

WBO 2019 Fight of Year

Anthony Joshua vs. Andy Ruiz I

WBO Outstanding Achievement as a Boxer

Unified Bantamweight World Champion Naoya Inoue

Personal Overcoming Achievement

WBO Mini-Flyweight World Champion Wilfredo ‘Bimbito’ Méndez

Special Recognitions to:

Promoter Akihiko Honda, Kazuto Ioka, Jorge Linares, Iván Calderón, Istvan ‘koko’ Kovacs, Acelino ‘Popo’ Freitas, Donnie Nietes (center), and Matchroom Boxing.

Next year’s WBO Convention will take place in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Photos by WBO