Luis Concepción: WBA Champion in Two Divisions
Luis Miguel Concepción Montiel, known as “El Nica,” is a Panamanian boxer from Panama City who turned professional in 2006. His career includes WBA world titles at flyweight and super flyweight, as well as interim titles at both weights. The WBA profile lists his championship record and recent bouts.
Concepción won the interim WBA flyweight title by stopping Omar Salado in the 12th round in September 2009, then made three successful defenses. He was upgraded to full champion in January 2011 after Daiki Kameda vacated the belt. Hernán Márquez took the title from him by 11th-round TKO on April 2, 2011. The WBA’s career recap records that sequence.
Boxing career and major results
In 2016, Concepción moved up and beat reigning WBA super flyweight champion Kohei Kono by unanimous decision in Tokyo. He lost the belt on the scales before his scheduled December defense against Khalid Yafai; the title was then vacant and Yafai won it in the ring. The WBA report on the Kono fight and its weigh-in report document both outcomes.
Concepción remained active after losing the super flyweight title. He later won the interim WBA flyweight belt by stopping Rober Barrera in 2020, then challenged Artem Dalakian for the full title in 2021 and was stopped in round nine. In 2018, Australia’s Andrew Moloney had also stopped him in the 10th round of a super flyweight bout. The WBA’s Dalakian report confirms the 2021 result.
His most recent bout listed in the reviewed record was in Manila on August 17, 2025. Kenneth Llover stopped Concepción in the eighth round. At that point, Concepción was a former two-division champion still taking fights nearly two decades after his 2006 pro debut. PhilBoxing’s report describes the bout and stoppage.
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