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Liborio Solis beats Kohei Kono for WBA super flyweight title

Liborio Solis (right) defeated Kohei Kono to win the WBA super flyweight title in Tokyo.

Liborio Solis (right) defeated Kohei Kono to win the WBA super flyweight title in Tokyo.

TOKYO (AP) -- Liborio Solis of Venezuela defeated Japan's Kohei Kono by a majority decision on Monday to win the WBA super flyweight title.

Two judges scored the bout 115-111 and 114-112 in favor of the Venezuelan. A third judge scored it 113-113.

Kono floored Solis with a right in round two, but the Venezuelan recovered to drop the Japanese with a solid left hook in round eight.

Solis improved to 15-3-1 with 7 knockouts while Kono dropped to 28-8 with 11 KOs.

Also, Japan's Takashi Uchiyama successfully defended his WBA super featherweight title for a seventh time when he knocked out ninth-ranked challenger Jaider Parra of Venezuela in the fifth round.