Last fight · 3 Apr 2026
Win vs Masataka Taniguchi
UD · 12 · WBA and WBO world titles · Light flyweight
- Judge 1
- 117-110
- Judge 2
- 116-111
- Judge 3
- 114-113
Judges' scorecards (WBA record)
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Puerto Rico · Light flyweight
Rene Santiago
“Chulo”
- 34 years old
- 5′3″
- WBO Champion
- Wins
- 16
- Losses
- 4
- Draws
- 0
- KOs
- 9
56% of wins inside the distance
Form
Fights
Before that
- WinKyosuke Takami17 Dec 2025 · WBA and WBO world titles · Light flyweightSD · 12
- WinShokichi Iwata13 Mar 2025 · WBO world title · Light flyweightUD · 12
- WinRicardo Astuvilca30 Oct 2024 · WBO International Light FlyweightUD · 10
- LossJonathan Gonzalez2 Mar 2024 · WBO world title · Light flyweightUD · 12
Show the next 5 fights
- WinKevin Vivas27 Oct 2023 · WBO interim world title · Light flyweightKO · 12
- WinCarlos Ortega14 Apr 2023 · WBO Latino Light FlyweightTKO · 9 (10)
- WinGerardo Zapata16 Dec 2022 · WBO Latino Light FlyweightDQ · 2 (10)
- LossEduardo Yudel Reyes Torres8 Apr 2022 · WBO NABO MinimumweightUD · 10
- WinJose Calderon7 Nov 2021TKO · 2 (10)
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Rankings
Best: champion
- WBO
C
Champion
tracked since Aug 2026
Not ranked by the WBC, WBA, IBF or IBO.
World titles
3 championship reigns · 2 sanctioning bodies · 1 weight class
Light flyweight
- WBAsince 2026
- WBA2025 – 2026
- WBOsince 2025
From 2025 to 2026.
Reigning
Every date, reign by reign
Past reigns
- WBALight flyweight17 Dec 2025 – 28 Jul 2026 · 7 months↗
Current titles: the sanctioning bodies' official rankings. History and dates: Wikipedia's lists of world champions (CC BY-SA 4.0), re-read every week.
Movement
Places gained or lost with each sanctioning body. Green is up, red is down, “New” marks an entry into the rankings, and a dot a period with no published archive.
| Body | The boxer's place in the sanctioning body's official ranking. “C”: world champion, above No. 1. An interim champion is marked as such (“Interim”, “Int.”): not the reigning champion. No. 1 is the leading contender for the title. | 1M | 3M | 6M | 1Y |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WBO | C | — | · | · | · |
Trajectory, body by body
WBO
Championtracked since Aug 2026
IBF
No longer ranked · best No. 12 (May 2023)tracked since Jan 2023
See the changes in detail
| Aug 2026 | Champion |
| Jan 2023 | No. 15 |
| Feb 2023 | No. 14 |
| Apr 2023 | No. 13 |
| May 2023 | No. 12 |
| Jul 2023 | No. 13 |
| Sep 2023 | No. 14 |
| Oct 2023 | No. 15 |
| Nov 2023 | dropped out of the ranking |