Jimrex Jaca
Jemuel Buena Divino, more known as Jimrex Jaca is a Filipino professional boxer who held the Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation super bantamweight title. He also challenged for the WBO interim featherweight title once.
Professional career
Early career
Jaca vs. Pacquiao
On 10 August 2001, Jaca, aged 17 fought Manny Pacquiao's infamous brother Bobby Pacquiao in Cebu City, Jaca managed to knock Pacquiao out in 1 round.GAB Filipino bantamweight champion
On 21 October 2001, Jaca fought 10–3–1 Alfren Bulala for the vacant GAB Filipino bantamweight title, Jaca won the title via unanimous decision. Jaca would vacate the title immediately and move back up to the super bantamweight division to fight journeyman Andy Alagenio on 8 February 2002 and prevail via second-round TKO.GAB Filipino super bantamweight champion
On 26 July 2002, Jaca challenged the reigning snd defending GAB Filipino super bantamweight champion Dino Olivetti in Cebu City, Jaca dethroned Olivetti via second-round KO.Jaca defended his Filipino crown against former PABA bantamweight champion Joel Junio on 15 November 2002 in Surigao City and won via UD, afterward he defended his title once more against Pederito Laurente on 15 March 2003, in which, he won via UD again.
OPBF super bantamweight champion
Jaca vs. Laurente II
On 30 January 2004, Jaca rematched his former for Pederito Laurente who suddenly won the OPBF super bantamweight championship, their match took place at the Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino in Cebu City, Jaca was able to defeat Laurente again via UD with the wide-margin scores of 117–110, 119–109 and 116–111, he also scored a knockdown in the fourth round.Jaca vs. Kunimi
On 30 May 2004, Jaca was set to make his first OPBF title defense against Yasuo Kunimi, however he would be stripped the day before due to missing weight, weighing 3 and a half pounds over the super bantamweight limit, thus, the title was only at stake for Kunimi. Kunimi would beat him via a seventh-round KO.Super featherweight
Jaca vs. Hernandez
After beating season veteran compatriot Samuel Duran to win the GAB super featherweight title on 25 Nov 2005, on 21 January 2006, Jaca faced Mexican journeyman Geronimo Hernandez on the Erik Morales vs. Manny Pacquiao II undercard in Las Vegas, Nevada, this marked Jaca's debut in the United States. Jaca scored an impressive first-round stoppage.OPBF ratings issue and OPBF super featherweight title challenge vs. Honmo
In March 2006, Jaca, who was previously unranked by the OPBF in the super featherweight division, was suddenly elevated to no. 1 in the ratings, despite his bouts in the super featherweight division being not that credible enough yet, with some even arguing that his wins over Samuel Duran and Geronimo Hernandez were not that great, stating that Duran was a "washed" 100-bouts veteran and Hernandez' can be considered as a "bum." Furthermore, Jaca's compatriot Czar Amonsot who was no. 3 last December 2005 ratings was suddenly dropped from the rankings, marking questions in the OPBF super featherweight ratings.Due to Jaca being the no. 1 contender now, he was mandated to fight for the vacant OPBF super featherweight strap against Nobuhito Honmo on 20 May 2006 in Tokyo. Jaca would however lose to the Japanese boxer via unanimous decision.
Mano-A-Mano
After his loss against Honmo, Jaca would be scheduled to face against Mexican Hector Javier Marquez in the historic Mano-A-Mano event between Manny Pacquiao and Óscar Larios on 25 August 2007 at the Araneta Coliseum. Jaca would win via seventh-round unanimous technical decision after Jaca's cut, which he received in the third round worsened and Jaca was unfit to continue.Featherweight
Jaca vs. Márquez
In late 2006, it was announced that Jaca was scheduled against former world champion and reigning WBO interim featherweight champion Juan Manuel Márquez for the title scheduled for 26 October 2006 under the Golden Boy Promotions. However it would be "cancelled" due to Jaca's visa issues, upon learning that news, Jaca's long-time manager and stable leader Rex "Wakee" Salud reached out to Top Rank to include Jaca in the Manny Pacquiao vs. Erik Morales III undercard, in which, the promotion would remove one scheduled bout just to accommodate for Jaca's match. Unfortunately for Salud, he got a call that the Jaca-Márquez bout would be pushed through 25 November 2006 schedule under the Golden Boys Promotions, to Salud's dismay as he was informed that the bout was cancelled not postponed, Salud had already committed the match under the Pacquiao-Morales III card on November 18. Salud would inform Jimrex Jaca and his trainer on November 2 to inform them about the commotions and to prepare to head on November 4 to train at the Wild Card Gym, Jaca would ask to go home to Sibulan. Unbeknownst to Salud, Jaca would suddenly flown towards the U.S. on November 2, to add things up, Oscar De La Hoya would receive information that Jaca is indeed training already in the Golden Boy Gym, against Salud's plans. Furthermore, Salud's manager contract with Jaca was supposed to last until 2009, however, Jaca went against his permissions, Salud who has been always at Jaca's side since he turned pro at 17 years old admitted that he felt cheated and insisted that Jaca's action was an act of treason.Setting his problems aside, Jaca would be scheduled to a WBO interim championship against Márquez as initially planned, now on 25 November 2025 at the Dodge Arena in Hidalgo, Texas. Márquez' trainer-manager Ignacio "Nacho" Beristáin would admit that Márquez may be fighting a "first-class" opponent after observing Jaca's previous bouts, including the Mano-A-Mano match, Beristáin would state that the younger, taller and perhaps faster Jaca may be a formidable one and ultimately gained his respect. In the fight, Jaca would give a respectable and credible performance against the much more experienced and better foe, the two fighters of opposing stance gave an enjoyable back-and-forth match with Márquez nealry being dropped by Jaca from a counrr in the second round and receiving a cut that streamed blood down in Márquez' right side of his face. Ultimately, Márquez would be performing better and getting the best of exchanges en route to an incredible ninth-round knockout. In January 2007, it was reported that infamous referee Laurence Cole, who is notoriously known for his rather questionable refereeing in high-class level bouts was fined and temporarily suspended after he was reported telling the bloodied Márquez that he was winning on the scorecards and he insisted that Márquez should avoid retiring in the corner. Previously in the eighth round, Cole brought Márquez to the ringside medics in which the medics said that he was still fit. Conclusively, Cole was fined $500 and suspended from January 1 to July 1, in which he gave reasons to why he did that and apologized.