In much of the Western world the big fights are on Saturday nights, in Asia however things are a bit different and this weekend the big day was certainly Sunday thanks to several major cards.
The most notable of the cards was the Teiken Deluxe show which was shown on WOWOW and held at the massive Kokugikan. The main fight here saw WBC Bantamweight champion Shinsuke Yamanaka (20-0-2, 15) successfully retaining his world crown courtesy of a 9th round KO over tough Mexican Alberto Guevara (18-2, 6). Things started well for Guevara who used his footwork brilliantly to remain elusive from the hard hitting Yamanaka. Unfortunately for the challenger his work wasn't really recognised by the judges who had him behind after 4 rounds. It was after the fourth however that the class of the two men was shown to be totally different with Yamanaka beginning to really find his range. When Yamanaka starts to connect on a fighter it's fair to say that anyone would be in trouble and this was the for Guevara who was dropped twice in round 8 before being stopped in round 9. The disappointment of seeing a Lightweight world title fight fall by the way-side for Jorge Linares (35-3, 23) appeared to be little more than motivation for the Venezuelan who took his frustration out on the over matched Francisco Contreras (21-6, 16). Contreras, who had almost seen out the first round, was caught by a lights out shot as Linares made very light work of his opponent at the end of round 1. Linares wasn't the only former world champion scoring an opening round victory as Japan's very own Takahiro Ao (25-3-1, 12) also stopped his opponent at the end of the opening round. Ao, facing Edgar Alejandro Lomeli (14-4-2, 8), had almost heard the bell for the end of the round when he stopped Lomeli. We very nearly had a trio of opening round stoppages as Nicaraguan Roman Gonzalez (37-0, 31) dropped Mexican Oscar Blanquet (32-7-1, 23) in the opening round. Although Blanquet finished off the round he was soon finished himself suffering a 2nd round defeat at the hands of "Chocolatito". Whilst Gonzalez was expected to win few would have expected him to take out Blanquet so early considering the fact he went 12 with Akira Yaegashi earlier this year. The rest of this card featured 4 much smaller bouts. These saw Daisuke Sudo (1-1) defeating Takashi Shinmyozu (0-3) via unanimous deicison, Yamato Sasaki (1-0) out pointing fellow debutant Hiroki Imamura (0-1), Hisashi Owada (4-8) narrowly over-coming Yutaka Motoyoshi (3-7, 3) and Masaki Mori (1-1-1) stopping Kazuhiro Baba (0-1-1). Of course it wasn't just in Tokyo that we had action with the Teiken card but we also had action in Aichi thanks to Hatanaka. The Hatanaka card was headlined by Yushi Tanaka (11-0-3, 7) defending his WBC Youth World Bantamweight title with an opening round victory over Thailand's Norasing Patanakan Gym (1-2, 1). Although the WBC Youth Bantamweight title was the only title fight on the show it's fair to say that it actually took a back seat to the debut of Kosei Tanaka (1-0) the former amateur stand out. Kosei made his debut again Indonesian Oscar Raknafa (12-4, 5), who entered the bout as the WBO #6 ranked challenger. In the third most important contest on this show Shota Hayashi (21-5-1, 13) stopped Ryosei Arai (12-4-1, 3) in the fifth of a scheduled 8 rounder. As with the Korakuen Hall show there was a number of undercard bouts all of which went to decision. The closest of the decision contests saw a split decision as Yusuke Nakagawa (5-3-1, 3) narrowly over-came Hajime Kawase (4-7-2) over 6 rounds. The ret of the show, fought over 4 rounds, saw Kazuyuki Tomita (2-0) defeat Shintaro Tsutsumi (1-2, 1), Hideaki Kamiyasu (1-0) overcome fellow debutant Yosuke Kato (0-1), Abeno Seimei (1-0) take a debut victory over Naoki Masukawa (1-1) and Taichi Sugimori (2-1) score an upset victory over Tomoya Yamaguchi (4-2, 1). In the east notable Japanese card of the day Fujita Promotions put on a six fight show. This was headlined by Accel Sumiyoshi (4-2, 1) taking a very narrow and highly debated split decision over Filipino visitor Nelson Gulpe (8-1, 3). Thankfully despite the controversy in the main event there was much less controversy in the chief support bout as Koichi Ito (8-1-2, 8) stopped Katsuhiko Kanno (8-7-7, 3). This show's sole 6 round bout saw Burning Ishii (4-1-1, 1) scoring a draw with Genki Horiuchi (5-0-2, 3). In a trio of 4 round bouts Fine Arai (1-0) scored a debut victory over Det Sithsaithong (0-1), Fever Maki (3-1, 2) took his first decision over-coming Ryo Hirai (1-2-1) and Jump Ikeo (1-1-1) took his first victory with a decision over Hiromichi Kurokawa 2-2-1). Outside of Japan we also had action as Yemeni's world record holding Ali Raymi (20-0, 20), took the record for most "opening round knockouts to start a career" outright as he took out Akram Jafwi (5-1, 1) in 87 seconds. Raymi had previously tied the record of 19 straight opening round KO's with Tyrone Brunson. On the same show we saw the KO run of Cruiserweight Faisal Fittini (5-0, 4) come to run due to a majority decision over the previously unbeaten Abdu Achille (2-0, 1). There was was also a stoppage victory for Prince Maz (5-0, 4) who defeated Moxamad Abdu (4-5, 2) and a decision for Othman Qasim (6-1, 2) who overcame Alwan Hawshabi (3-7, 1).
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After Monday's trio of cards there was little shock that we had plenty of action again on Tuesday.
At the start of 2013 no one in boxing ever expected a Yemeni born fighter to find their way in to the record books. This past Tuesday however Ali Raymi (19-0, 19) tied history with an historic opening round victory over Ali Salem (10-1, 2). This stoppage victory for Raymi has seen him tying a record previously held by just Tyrone Brunson*. Whilst Raymi is now world ranked by the WBO (#12) and the WBC (#15) there are plenty of online folk criticising the 39 year old and suggesting his fights are fixed. We won't make any comment on this however with Raymi now 15-0 (15) for the year it's fair to say that he is one of the busiest men in the game right now. As well as Raymi's victory in Yemen there were 3 other bouts on the card. These saw just a sole stoppage as Faisal Fittini (4-0, 4) stopped Khaled Abdusalam (1-1) in the third round. The remaining two contests on the Yemen show saw Prince Maz (4-0, 3) taking a decision over Alwan Hawshabi (3-6, 1), ending his own KO run, and Akram Jafwi (5-0, 1) taking a decision over Moxamad Abdu (4-4, 2). In Japan we had Dangan 87, a show that included a Class A tournament contest. Unfortunately in the A class tournament bout Yuta Nakagawa (11-4-1, 7) made very short work of Yosuke Fujihara (14-2, 4). Nakagawa needed just 66 seconds to stop Fujihara. Although the Nakagawa/Fujihara bout was the main event it was one of the shortest bouts on the show and by far the shortest of a trio of 6 round contests. The other two bouts scheduled for 6 all went in to at least the final round. In a Bantamweight contest scheduled for 6 Ryoichi Tamura (1-1) managed to narrowly defeat Keigo Soma (5-9-1, 2) via a split decision. This was the only one of the three bouts scheduled for 6 that went the complete distance. The remaining one featured Takuya Fujii (6-4, 2) who managed to stop Kazuki Kobayashi (4-6) with little more than half a round left. As well as the trio of 6 rounders that we had there were also five bouts scheduled for 4 rounds. Of those only two actually went the distance with Yutaka Ekawa (2-2-1) out pointing Tateo Saito (2-1) and Yuya Nagayoshi (3-5, 1) taking a decision over Kotaro Sasa (1-3). Amazingly the other trio of 4 rounders went just a combined 4 rounds between them. The shortest of those was a 20 second blast out for the debuting Tadashi Nunoya (1-0, 1) who swiftly despatched fellow debutant Takehiro Kojima (0-1). The Nunoya/Kojima bout wasone of two opening round stoppages alongisde that of Kazuma Ishikura (2-1, 1) who stopped Kazuto Nakane (1-1, 1) in 152 seconds. In the sole bout we've not mentioned Yudai Hata (2-1, 1) stopped Ryota Harukawa (1-2, 1) in the second round. *We have been in touch with Guinness to try and get them to recognise this record. We are awaiting a reply. It's not too often that we have genuine Asian wide action but that's exactly what we had to start the month of Novemember with show's in Japan, South Korea, Thailand and Yemen. All of which had some sort of notable bout that was worth knowing about.
We'll start with the Thai show, the highest profile of the 4 shows. This show, which was televised by Thai Channel 7, was headlined by a PABA Bantamweight title fight as Thailand's very own Tabtimdaeng Na Rachawat (50-2, 33) retained his title with a sixth round stoppage of Filipino challenger Edison Berwela (12-27-6, 3). On the Thai undercard there were four other contests. These included Pankorn Mor Poowana (1-0, 1) scoring a debut stoppaged over fellow debutant Rakangthong Sithkrusaeng (0-1) in a bout that lasted just 3 rounds. The remaining trio of contests all went the scheduled 6 rounds as Thong Sithluangphophun (5-0, 2) out pointed the debuting Saksri Twinsgym debut (0-1), Yodsingdaeng Jor Chaijinda (2-0) defeated Cheroenchai Sithsaithong (4-5, 3) and Phalangchai Sithsaithong (1-1) overcame debutant Veerachai Manopkarnchang (0-1). The PABA Bantamweight title wasn't the only title bout of the day as the Interbulgo Hotel in Wonju played host to a Korean national title fight. On a 6 fight show in Korea Bong-Joon Suk (7-1-2, 2) managed to retain his Korean Featherweight title thanks to an 8th round KO over the over-matched Chul-Hyun Lim (5-12-2, 3). Unfortunately for Lim this was his fifth failed national title challenge and we think think it will likely be his last. As well as the Korean national title fight we also got one of the upsets of the day in Korea as the previously unbeaten Joo-Hyun Kim (4-1-2, 1) was out pointed by Sung-Baek Noh (3-6-2) over 8 rounds. This was the co-feature and a notable loss for Kim. It was also a good day for Chinese visitor Ma Yi Ming (10-5, 6) who scored his most notable victory to date. Mind, fighting for just the second time in Korea stopped Jin-Man Jeon (13-5-1, 3) at the start of the third round. Whilst this was the third successive loss for Jeon it's by far the worst with the other two both coming to men who went on to fight for world titles. The remaining 3 contests on this card all went to decision. These saw Seung-Yong Lee (7-0, 1) taking a split decision over Ji Tao (7-4, 2) to maintain his unbeaten record, Jae-Hwan In (3-2) taking a 6 round unanimous decision over the more experienced Ryota Yamami (4-9-2, 2) of Japan and Bum-Hyun Kim (2-1) taking a decision over the debuting Sun-Yoo Lee (0-1). In Japan we had "Dangan 86", part of an A Class tournament. This show, whilst far from a title show was a major one in Japan and featured 9 contests. This show began with three bouts scheduled for 4 rounds. These saw an unexpected victory for Kosuke Miura (1-5-1) who managed to out point the debuting Mitsukazu Oshita (0-1), an opening round stoppage for Kimihiro Nakagawa (1-0, 1) over fellow denutat Akihiro Shimogaki (0-1) and a draw between unbeaten pair Ippei Azuma (2-0-1, 1) and Ken Kodama (1-0-1, 1). Following the early bouts there was then 6 bouts as part of the tournament. These featured bouts from Flyweight to Super Featherweight. In the Flyweight contest Musashi Suzuki (10-1, 4) defeated the previously unbeaten and highly regarded Yuta Matsuo (5-1, 3). This was a step up for Matsuo and one that he failed to pass. At Super Flyweight there was two bouts. These saw Hayato Kimura (20-5, 15) forcing the retirement of Junichiro Sugita (16-9, 7) and Kohei Kubo (16-4-1, 11) stopping Shohei Kikuzato (9-2, 4). Both of these bouts went into the fourth round rather interestingly but Sugita was stopped at the very end of the round as opposed to the middle of it like Kikuzato. In the sole Bantamweight bout of the tournament Hiroaki Teshigawara (8-1-1, 4) over came Kota Sato (9-5-1, 4) taking a clear 6 round decision in what looked like a competitive bout on paper. It wasn't just the Super Flyweight division that had double action but also the Super Featherweight division. In the bouts at 130 we saw Takaomi Abe (15-2-2, 1) over coming the very experienced Akihiko Nago (31-8-2, 15) and the very hard hitting Kazuya Nakano (6-2, 6) stopping Ribo Takahata (9-4-1, 2). We expect this to be Nago's final bout seeing off a long career that dates all the way back to 1995. In Yemen we had a further six contests, though of course it was just one man who stole the headlines. Ali Raymi (18-0, 18) did it again scoring his 18th straight opening round stoppage against an unbeaten fighter. This time matched against Mustafa Humaidi (6-1, 2) it took Raymi just 47 seconds to continue his rampage through the Yemeni scene. As well as Raymi's victory there was also three over stoppages. These saw Prince Maz (3-0, 3) stopping Luway Jaber (2-5, 2) in the second round, Faisal Fittini (3-0, 3) stopping Hamoody Jubran 1-2) and Ali Salem (10-0, 2) stopping the debuting Ahmed Matari (0-1). From these results we wouldn't be shocked to see Raymi meeting Salem next time out as Raymi looks to tie a world record for most successive opening round stoppages. In the two remaining contests on this show we went to decision as Akram Jafwi (4-0, 1) overcame Esayas Dagim (2-3, 1) and Khaled Abdusalam (1-0) defeated Saif Khedher (0-1) in an all debutant contest, In international action Syrian Youssef Al Hamidi (12-61-3, 1) suffered his tenth loss of the year as he was out pointed by Atif Shafiq (6-0). Action today returned to the 22 May Sports Stadium in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa as Yemen's boxing's cult Hero Ali Raymi (17-0, 17) returned to the ring once again.
Raymi, on the verge of setting a new record for most opening round victories to start a career, swiftly saw off the previously unbeaten Omar Awdan (8-1, 4). This bout, which lasted just 78 seconds, was Raymi's 13th victory of the year and it's be an absolute shock if he didn't move to 20-0 (20) by the end of the year. As well as Raymi's victory over Awdan the fans also got the chance to see a quintet of other bouts. These included a 4 round decision for Ali Salem (9-0, 1) who over came Wesam Maqrami (5-2, 3) and may have entered himself into the Raymi sweepstakes. Alongside Raymi's stoppage victory there were also early stoppages for Faisal Fittini (2-0, 2), who stopped Sam Iwuji (1-1) in the second round, and Prince Maz (2-0, 2), who took out Khaled Sulaym (1-3, 1) in the opening round. The remaining two contests on the show both went to decision as Akram Jafwi (3-0, 1) out pointed Alwan Hawshabi (3-5, 1) and Felix Arno (4-0) extended his unbeaten run over coming Esayas Dagim (2-2, 1) by decision. As well as the action in Yemen there was also a contest in Indonesia as the promising Defry Palulu (5-0, 5) took out compatriot Boido Simanjuntak (16-21-1, 5) in the second round. Although it's early to say we think it may be worth keeping a close eye on Palulu who could well prove to be one of Indonesia's rare talents. Aged 22 and dubbed "The Beast" he certainly appears to have power and plenty of promise. A busy Friday in the Asian boxing world left us with a number of headlines as action took place on a regular basis.
The key headline of the day was from Yemen as KO sensation Ali Raymi (16-0, 16) took out Husam Shargabi (3-1, 1) in just 58 seconds. This was, of course, the 16th straight opening round stoppage from Raymi who now appears on the verge of breaking in to the world rankings. As well as the Raymi bout the card featured a further 9 contests. These included 3rd round stoppage victory for Omar Awdan (8-0, 4) who took out Bahr Slyman (2-3, 1). We'd not be shocked if Awdan, himself a Minimumweight, was to get a match with Raymi in the near future. Staying in the lower weights we had a draw at Flyweight as Muhana Hajaji (2-0-1) fought to a draw with fellow unbeaten novice Hani Ansi (1-0-1) over 4 rounds, Ali Salem (8-0, 1) extended his unbeaten run over coming Ali Al Ahdal (4-4, 3) and Prince Maz (1-0, 1) took a stoppage victory over Sufyan Saadi (0-1) on his debut. Moving up the weights slightly the unbeaten Felix Arno (3-0) out pointed Luway Jaber (2-4, 2) and Akram Jafwi (2-0, 1) over came Ahmet Sinan (0-1). At the much higher weights Abdu Achille (2-0) out pointed Hamoody Jubran (1-1), Sam Iwuji (1-0) shut out Ibrahim Qadhi (0-1) and Faisal Fittini (1-0, 1) stopped Hasan Jarmuzi (0-1). Over in Japan the action continued. The headline action here saw former world champion Tomonobu Shimizu in an exhibition contest with current Japanese Super Bantamweight champion Hidenori Otake. Aside from the Shimizu/Otake exhibition the show wasn't filled with much of note, though did feature 9 "proper" bouts. The Japanese card bouts saw 6 bouts scheduled for the 4 round distance. These included the 103 second debutant of Riki Hamada (1-0, 1) who swiftly took out fellow debutant Makoto Iijima (0-1). This wasone of two all debutant bouts with the other seeing Kazuhide Imakura (1-0, 1) scoring a 3rd round KO over Yukihiro Kaneko (0-1). Hamada and Imakura weren't the only successful debutants on the show with Wataru Yokoyama (1-0, 1) also kicking off his career with a stoppage, taking out Akihiro Yashiro (1-1-1) in the 3rd round. The remaining 4 round contests saw Masayoshi Abe (2-1) taking a split decision over Suguru Akimoto (0-2); Kazutaro Ueno (1-1, 1) claiming is first victory via a second round stoppage of Sosuke Sakata (1-1) and a decision victory for Tsuyoshi Nishimura (4-5-1, 1) who defeated Hidetoshi Ueki (3-9-1). In the 6 round contests we saw decisions victories for both Takahiro Fujii (5-2-1, 1) and Junpei Sakagami (4-2-2, 3). Fujii defeated Takuma Nishida (5-5, 2) who suffered his second successive loss whilst Sakagami overcame Keisuke Ota (7-7, 1) who suffered his third loss in a row. Whilst the cards in Asia were interesting, at least for one reason or another, the real story of the night was in Mexico as Filipino Marvin Mabait (19-1-2, 13) claimed the WBO Inter-Continental Bantamweight title. Mabait, fighting outside of the Philippines for the first time, took just 36 seconds to stop former world title challenger Johnny Garcia (18-5-1, 9). Of all the stories it's this one that seems the most telling as Mabait has surely planted himself in to the world rankings as a result his victory. The international action continued north of the Mexican border as Russian Ilshat Khusnulgatin (11-0, 6) scored his fourth victory of the year as he forced the retirement of Arsenio Terrazas (9-6, 8) at the end of the 4th round. Action returned, once again, to Yemen earlier this week as local boxing star Ali Raymi (15-0, 15) fought for the 11th time this year.
The 39 year KO phenom continued his streak of opening round KO's with a stoppage over Yasin Abdulkhalik (7-1, 3). The bout, which lasted 125 seconds, was one one the longest of Raymi's career. With the first round KO streak record now on the horizon, a record of 19 set by Tyrone Brunson, it's almost certain that Raymi will make history before the year is out. On the same card there was a further 4 bouts. These saw Omar Awdan (7-0, 3) stopping Halim Dolbhante (1-2, 1) in the only other bout that saw an early ending. In the other 3 contests Felix Arno (2-0) defeated Alwan Hawshabi (3-4, 1); Muhana Hajaji (2-0) out pointed Muhamad Fikri (1-1) and Ali Salem (7-0, 1) defeated Mansur Raymi (0-1). Looking at the undercard it really wouldn't be a shock to see Ali Raymi facing Omar Awdan next time out. This past Monday saw two cards of note in Asia. One of those was in Yemen whilst the other, a much more interesting one, was in Japan.
We'll start by looking at the Japanese show, a show dubbed "Fil Japan Boxing Festival Vol. III". The Headline fight in Japan saw Masayuki Ito (12-0-1, 4) stopping Filipino rival Jeffrey Arienza (9-2-1, 4) in the 10th and final round to claim the WBC Youth Lightweight title. The fight, which appeared to be heading to a clear decision in favour of Ito, who was 88-82 up, going into the final round though the 2012 All Japan Rookie of the year managed to close the show and claim his first title. In the chief support bout Japanese model-turn-boxer Tomomi Takano (3-0, 2) scored her third victory courtesy of a stoppage over a debuting Filipino opponent. This was one of two female bouts on the card with the other seeing Japanese based Filipino Honey Mae Bermoy (5-2, 5), AKA Honey Katsumata, stopping Japan's previously unbeaten Saki Yamada (6-1-1, 2). The most notable result came in the second highest profile male bout on the show as former Japanese Light Flyweight challenger Yuki Chinen (14-1, 7) stopped Filipino Ryan Bito (22-12-3, 8) in just 88 seconds. Chinen was expected to win though no one would have expected him to stop Bito in such an impressive fashion. In an all Filipino bout Jovylito Aligarbes (9-2, 3), AKA Jovy Katsumata, took a narrow decision over the more experienced Monico Laurente (23-9, 5). On the other card, in Yemen, the fast rising Ali Raymi (14-0, 14) recorded his 14th straight opening round victory as he stopped Asam Dolbhante (4-1, 1) in just 94 seconds. This was one of two bouts on the show with the other seeing Muhana Hajaji (1-0) out pointing Sultan Haydi (0-1) over 4 rounds. Rookie of the East Semi Final 2; Roman Zhailauov adds to title collection; Ali Raymi's return9/28/2013 It's not often that a day in boxing is busy in as many countries as Friday was, though of course it's hard to complain when there is action is Japan, Yemen and Kazakhstan.
We'll start with the Japanese card which was the second day of the “Rookie of the East” Semi Finals giving us the second finalists in the prestigious tournament and possible future “Rookie of the Year”. As is the norm with these “Rookie” shows we started with a bout at Minimumweight as Yoshinori Wakahara (5-3, 2) booked his place in the final courtesy of a 2nd round stoppage victory over Naoki Akagi (2-3-2, 1). The Light Flyweight division saw Ryuto Maekawa (6-0, 4) taking a decision over draw specialist Rei Ochiai (1-2-3), interestingly this was the most clear cut bout of Ochiai's career to date. This Light Flyweight bout was quickly followed by a Flyweight contest that saw the unbeaten Ryuto Oho (4-0, 2) over come Katsunori Shimooki (3-3-1) via a decision. The decision's came quick and fast with Seiya Fujikita (5-0, 1) out pointing Hiroto Kurosawa (5-2, 3) in the Super Flyweight bout, Gaku Aikawa (3-0-1) out pointing Tatsuya Mukai (5-2-2, 1) in the Super Bantamweight contest, Shingo Kusano (6-2-1, 3) upsetting the previously unbeaten Naoto Moriya (4-1, 1) and Ryosuke Takami (3-0, 2) defeating Akio Tomiyama (5-4, 4). For those who like the stoppages however there was several stoppages on the show with Bantamweight Yukichi Hara (5-2, 2) stopping Yuto Sasamori (5-4, 3), Super Featherweight Yoshimichi Matsumoto (4-0, 3) stopping Ryosuke Suzuki (4-1) and Light Welterweight Takuya Matsusaka (5-1, 5) taking out Yuki Nagano (2-2, 2) inside a round. In Kazahkstan, Ulan Boxing put on their second show of the year with an impressive 4 titles bouts. With 4 titles it's fair to say that one of those was the headline, and with out having seen the show, we're going to hazard a guess that it was the triple-title contest featuring Roman Zhailauov (10-0, 7). Zhailauov, battling compatriot Kanat Kartenbayev (10-6-2, 4), not only defended his WBC Asian Boxing Council Welterweight title but also added the PABA “interim” and the Kazakhstani Welterweight titles to his collection. Aged just 19 the youngster is tipped to be a star and getting 12 rounds under his belt at this early stage of his career will certainly not do any harm to his development. In the other title fights on the “Ulan Boxing” card Maxim Maslov (12-1-1, 8) claimed the the WBC Asian Boxing Council Cruiserweight title courtesy of a decision over the hard hitting Elyor Gulomov (8-2-1, 7), Behzod Nabiev (22-5-1, 16) claimed the WBC Asia Council Continental Light Welterweight title by way of 4th round stoppage over Meirbek Sabirov (2-5, 1) and Zhandos Zhetpisbayev (7-6, 2) claimed the Kazakhstani Super Bantamweight title via a 10 round decision over compatriot Farhad Ospanov (4-3, 2). The only other result from the card that we currently have was a 4 decision win for Anvar Murabayev (1-0) who over-came fellow debutant Kanat Abdrakhmanov (0-1). In Yemen we had a 13 fight card that, of course, was headlined by the enigmatic Ali Raymi (13-0, 13). Fighting his 13h straight unbeaten opponent, Raymi needed just 25 seconds to defeat Luke Hassan (4-1, 1) using an all out body attack that has become his trademark. Raymi and Hassan were 2 of just 7 fighters on the card with any professional experience, though surprisingly it didn't really show as Alwan Hawshabi (3-3, 1) was out pointed by Ali Mahakri (1-0), Moxamad Abdu (4-3, 2) was beaten by Felix Arno (1-0) and Taha Kawkabani (1-1) was defeated by Muhamad Fikri (1-0). Other than Raymi it was only Abdu Rafik (3-0), who overcame Sammy Halimi (0-1), and Husam Shargabi (3-0, 1), who defeated Saeed Hashidi (0-1), who managed to show that experience is vital in this sport. The rest of the bouts on the Yemen show were all debutant bouts and these saw several decisions rendered as Sadam Raymi (1-0) defeated Ahmad Munasar (0-1), Hamoody Jubran (1-0) was victorious over the wonderfully named Ali Shoota (0-1), Abdu Achille (1-0) take a victory over Salem Lawzi (0-1), Zid Givri (1-0) beat Murad Salafi (0-1) and Mohamad Dahan (1-0) also start off with a win overcoming Ibrahim Salami (0-1). As well as the decision in the the all debutant bouts mentioned above, there was also stoppages in bouts between Hamza Rafik (1-0, 1) and Omar Maktari (0-1) and Ali Rafik (1-0, 1) against Bashar Nahari (0-1), both bouts finishing in the 3rd round. Outside of Asia there was unfortunately losses for the tough Arnel Tinampay (21-6-1, 7) and the always busy Aswin Cabuy (14-43-3, 7). Indonesian Cabuy was stopped in the opening round by the promising Renold Quinlan (5-0, 3) whilst Tinampay was out pointed by the big hitting Sam Ah See (8-0-1, 6). Interestingly Cabuy is 0-1-1 against Sam Ah See. A few days ago we receieved a number of comments regarding Yemen's KO sensation Ali Raymi (12-0, 12). The comments, which we believe originate from Yemen, spoke about Raymi taking on the then unbeaten Somalian Ali Dridi (8-1, 3).
That very fight occured earlier today in what could described as a bit of a Yemen domestic superfight. Unfortunately for our friend who left the comments the fight didn't go the way he had expected, instead it went the way every Raymi fight seems to go and the Yemen KO sensation scored his 12th straight opening round T/KO victory. Amazingly the victory for Raymi was his 3rd in July and his 8th since the start of May. The same card featured 2 other bouts as Omar Awdan (4-0, 2) narrowly overcame Ali Al Ahdal (2-1, 1) to win a majority decision and Munir Abdulqadir (1-0) Hasan Sabra (1-1). From these results we'd not be shocked if Raymi took on Awdan next as he looks to extend his KO streak. In Japan the unbeaten Yushi Tanaka (10-0-3, 6) claimed the WBC Youth World Bantamweight title thanks to a very narrow decision over Filipino Vergel Nebran (11-5-1, 7). The same card also saw stoppage victories for Akihiro Matsumoto (12-4-1, 5) and Shota Hayashi (20-5-1, 12) over debuting Thai's Mahahia Bobbygym (0-1) and Farungruang Manopkanchang (0-1). On the same show there were also 3 "Rookie of the Year" bouts which saw victories for Ryuji Ueda (3-0)-who over came Kener Lucas (1-1); Takashi Hisano (1-3)-who defeated Kenta Yokoe (2-5-1, 1) and Toshikatsu Nishio (2-1, 1) who claimed a victory over Satoshi Yamamichi (1-3, 1). All of these bouts were unanimous decisions. Also in Japan were 10 bouts fought at the Incubation Center, Amagasaki. These bouts were, to the best of our knowledge, part of the Rookie of the year competition. The heaviest weight that saw action was the Welterweight division which saw a victory for Hideo Mikan (4-4-1, 1) who scored his 3rd win in 4 bouts by stopping Takayuki Ishimoto (0-3). At Super Featherweight Ken Osato (3-0, 2) maintained his perfect record thanks to an opening round blast out of Ryusuke Hosoki (3-4-1, 1). Aged just 19 we're certainly going to keep a close eye on Osato and his progress through the tournament. The Featherweight division saw a minor upset as Takuya Hashimoto (3-1, 3) bounced back from his sole loss and took out Tatsuma Hirayama (5-2, 1) in just 2 rounds. Super Bantamweight featured two bouts as both Bunta Mitaka (3-0-1) and Shohei Kawashima(4-0, 1) claimed victories. Mitaka overcame the more experienced Riichi Kawase (3-4-2) in a very close contest that saw all 3 judges scoring 39-38 in favour of Mitaka. Kawashima's victory was only a little bit clearer as he defeated Takuya Yamamoto (1-1, 1) in a tough contest that saw both men giving their all. There was also two fights in the Bantamweight division. For the unbeaten Tatsuya Ikemizu (4-0, 2) things were clear with his victory over the previously unbeaten Tomonori Ichiki (3-1, 2) however in the division's other bout Monkey Shuhei (4-2-1, 2) was held to a split decision draw with Takashi Abe (1-0-1). The Shuhei/Abe fight was one of two draws on the card with the other seeing Kenta Sugimoto (5-4-1) held by Keisuke Tabuchi (3-1-2, 3) in one of the 2 Super Flyweight contests. The other fight at the weight saw the Mexican born Johnny Abarca (6-0, 1) scoring his first stoppage taking out Yu Yan (2-2-2, 1). In the sole bout fought at Minimumweight Takeshi Sone (3-1-1, 1) became the first man to defeat Shogo Hayashi (5-1-1, 3) as he claimed a clear decision. It's becoming harder and harder to believe the activity of the Yemeni boxing scene which has 3 shows in just 8 days. Amazingly several fighters have featured on all 3.
Of course the rising name in Yemeni boxing, Ali Raymi (11-0, 11) was on the show facing yet another unbeaten fighter. Like in his previous 10 bouts Raymi managed to see off his opponent almost immediately (taking just 17 seconds) as he scored his 11th successive opening round stoppage. This time the victim was Salman Al Umari (2-1, 1) who was returning to the ring after more than 2 years out. As we know Raymi isn't the only fighter in Yemen starting to make a name for himself and Somalian import Ali Dridi (8-0, 3) is also carving out a solid start to his professional career. Dridi scored his 8th victory by over-coming Luway Jaber (1-1, 1) via a 4 round shut out. Alongside the 2 Ali's the card feaured 6 other bouts. They included a 3rd round stoppage for Sharaf Montaser (2-0, 2) who defeated debutant Munther Eisawi (0-1). Eisawi was one of 6 debutants on the card with 4 of the others meeting in the ring. From the 2 all debutant clashes Ali Yarimi (1-0) out pointed Younis Ahmad (0-1) and Luke Hasan (1-0) out pointed Ali Muthaffar (0-1) both victories coming by shut out scores of 40-36. Things weren't any better for Ismael Ashwal (0-1) who was also shut out, though his loss came to the more expereinced Omar Awdan (3-0, 2). The remaining 2 bouts on the show saw Mustafa Humaidi (3-0, 1) score his first victory in over 2 years as he took a decision over Najeeb Haydari (0-2) and Ali Al Ahdal (2-0, 1) also return from more than 2 years out as he defeated Somalia's Mawj Abdulrezak (1-1). In Japan we know theres a strong and thriving boxing world and it was again on show on Sunday with 2 seperate cards. The most notable of those cards was held at Aioi Hall in Kariya whilst the other show as at the Act City, Hamamatsu. The main event at the Aioi Hall saw two of Japan's top Light Flyweights clash though the ending was less than apt as Yuki Sano (17-3-5, 12) and Takashi Omae (10-3-5, 1) suffered a 2nd technical draw. Sano, ranked #5 in Japan was looking to bounce back from a stoppage loss to Noaya Inoue though unfortunately this result with Omae (himself ranked #10) is very unlikely to help him get back on the right track. Things were better however for Japan's #7 ranked Featherweight Shinji Takayama (19-3, 11) who stopped the over matched Hiroki Yoshimura (7-8, 4) in the 4th of 8 scheduled rounds. This was one of only 2 stoppages on the card with the other seeing bebutant Yoshiki Goto (1-0, 1) retiring fellow debutant Kei Iba (0-1). Goto and Iba wre just 2 of 4 debutants on the card. The other two debutants, Kazuyuki Tomita and Ryoya Kishimoto (both 1-0), both claimed decision victories. For Tomito the victory was hard fought but clear as he over came Teruyuki Kobashi (2-8-1, 1) however Kishimoto was pushed all the way by Yoshiaki Inoue (0-2-1) in a bout that genuinely could have gone either way. Kishimoto wasn't the only fighter to take a narrow decision with Shota Suito (8-3-1, 1) also claiming a very narrow one over Hajime Kawase (4-6-2) by scored of 58-57 across the board. The remaining bout on the card saw Yuji Shimizu (14-7-1, 1) effectively shutting out Yoshihiro Kinjo (7-17-2, 2) over 8 rounds. Kinjo claimed a portion of a round on 2 of the scorecards in a relatively clear victory for Shimizu. In Act City the show featured 10 bouts with the headline fight seeing Yuta Horiike (8-1-3, 2) take a split decision over journeyman Yusuke Morishima (22-21-5, 7). This was surprisingly close considering Morishima had been stopped in his last 4 contests and is winless in the last 3 years, though it was Horiike's first bout contested over the 8 round distance. In Middleweight action Hidenori Tajima (14-10-1, 8) over came Norio Takeuchi (4-12-1, 4) pretty decisively on the cards in 1 of the shows trio of 6 round bouts which also saw Tetsuya Muraki (7-10, 1) clearly defeat Yasumasa Eguchi (6-8-2, 3) and Yuki Fujimoto (6-2-1, 1) just out pointing Kengo Maruhashi (4-11-2, 4). The rest of the card was all competed over the 4 round distance between novices. The novice bouts saw Hisao Narita (3-1, 1) narrowly over come Elfelos Vega (1-1, 1) in one of two majority decisions with Shachihoko Dragons Keita (2-1, 1) taking the other over Tetsuya Koide (0-1). Koide was one of 5 debutants on the card with only Misterio Torres (1-0) coming out ontop, albeit against fellow debutat Kenta Ide (0-1). Unfortunately this meant there was losses for Tetsuya Morisada and Junichi Ibato (both 0-1). Ibato's loss will be the easier of the two as he was competitive in losing a 4 round decision to Shogo Yamaguchi (1-0-1) whilst Morisada was a stoppage victim to Kazuaki Okada (2-0, 2). The remaining bout on the card was at Flyweight as Eita Sakurai (2-0) inflicted the another loss on to the record of Hiroki Yajima (0-4). |
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