John Kevien Jimenez: Philippine Minimumweight Career
John Kevien Jimenez is a Filipino minimumweight boxer associated with Cebu’s Chao Sy Boxing Stable. His career includes a Philippine youth championship and a WBF Asia-Pacific title. After an unbeaten start, he suffered defeats in international and domestic competition, so his early prospect record no longer describes his later career.
Career and championship record
Jimenez won the Games and Amusements Board Youth Philippine minimumweight championship against Jayson Brillo on February 9, 2024. The contest headlined a Blow-by-Blow show at the City of Passi Arena in Iloilo. All three judges scored the ten-round fight 96–94 for Jimenez, giving him a unanimous-decision victory and the vacant youth belt.
That result was part of his early development in Philippine boxing. The youth designation matters: it identifies the particular championship he won. His victory over Brillo was a national youth title success, while the later belt he won against Faisol Akbar was an Asia-Pacific regional championship at minimumweight.
On April 9, 2025, Jimenez defeated Indonesian opponent Faisol Akbar in Bogo City, Cebu. A body punch ended the contest in the second round, with referee Tony Pesons counting Akbar out. The victory brought Jimenez the World Boxing Foundation Asia-Pacific minimumweight title and left him with nine wins and two losses in the contemporary report.
The Akbar fight followed a second-round knockout defeat to Joseph Sumabong in Naga City the previous December. Jimenez’s first professional loss had come earlier in 2024, when Takeshi Ishii beat him by unanimous decision in Japan. These results ended the unbeaten phase of his career.
An October 2026 report listed Jimenez at 10–5 with five knockout wins. It identified his most recent defeat as a fifth-round knockout by Edmond Khudoyan in Russia on June 7, 2026. The same report announced a November 14 contest against Carlo Diaz VII at Fuente Osmeña Circle in Cebu City for the GAB Philippines minimumweight belt. As of October 28, 2026, that announced contest remained a future event.
Sources
Additional sources: https://www.philstar.com/sports/2024/02/10/2332356/jimenez-outpoints-brillo-blow-blow-iloilo-show; https://mytv.ph/article/cebuano-pug-kos-indon-foe-to-capture-wbf-belt; https://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/jimenez-slugs-out-with-diaz-in-historic-osme%C3%B1a-circle
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