Pocket dynamo Xiong headlines five-star show in Wenshan ring

A title wave hit Wenshan, Yunnan province, on Sunday night as five of China's flash-iest fighters won World Boxing Council regional or international championships.

The hit parade - televised nationwide on CCTV - was led by miniscule ex-miner Xiong Chaozhong (25-6-1, 14 KOs) of Kunming, who gutted out a 10-round decision over Japan's Hiroya Yamamoto (8-3) for the WBC's vacant International minimumweight (105 pounds) crown.

The star of the show, how-ever, was savage-punching bantamweight Qiu Xiaojun (15-2) of Suzhou, Jiangsu province, who survived a brutal first-round knockdown to KO former International flyweight champ Sylvester Lopez of the Philippines (23-10) in six rounds to claim the WBC's vacant Silver title.