Yoshikawa comes up short, Kakutani stops over-matched foe and Jaro picks up first win in Japan!4/30/2015 There wasn't much action this past Wednesday despite there being 3 Japanese shows. Osaka, Japan For fans in Osaka they were treat to two shows in the same venue, the Sangyo Shingo Center. The first of those cards was a low profile affair though did feature a notable fighter in the main event. The notable fighter was former WBC Light Flyweight title challenger Atsushi Kakutani (16-4-1, 9) who made light work of Indonesian visitor Hengky Baransano (11-6, 4) who was stopped in the 2nd round of the bout. Kakutani, who is best known for dropping Adrian Hernandez, has won his last 3 by stoppage and is now looking for a more notable bout, possible for an OPBF title. In the chief support bout fans saw Filipino fighter Ronelle Ferreras (14-8-3, 6) return to Japan and get widely out pointed over 8 rounds by Ryuya Yamanaka (9-2, 2).. This was Ferreras's first bout in Japan since he was beaten by Kosei Tanaka in March 2014 and unfortunately th e Filipino is now 1-3-1 in his last 5. For Yamanaka however this is the best win of his career so far and he is now 2-0 since being beaten by the upset minded Roque Lauro last August. A third 8 rounder saw Yuichi Arai (10-8-1, 3) score a 7th round TKO against the limited Takashi Nishimura (8-14-1, 1), who suffered his 9th stoppage defeat. This was a 4th straight loss for Nishimura who has won just 1 of his last 11 bouts! On paper Arai appears to be on a career resurgence with 4 straight wins. In the sole 6 rounder Ryota Shimizu (4-5-2, 1) took a competitive decision over Takaaki Kitagawa (5-4, 2) in a minor upset. Both of the scheduled 4 rounders finished earlier. One of these saw Yuki Iriguchi (2-0, 1) score his first stoppage courtesy of a 2nd round TKO against debutant Rakimu Ichikawa (0-1) whilst the other saw Shu Takeuchi (1-0, 1) take a 3rd round TKO in an all debutant bout against Satoru Hyodo (0-1). Osaka, Japan The second Osaka show came in the same venue as the previous card and featured a former world champion and a current world champion. Sadly for Japanese fans neither of the local fighters managed to over-come their visiting opponents. The main event was one sided as Anabel Ortiz (17-3, 3) easily retained her WBA female Minimumweight title with a wide decision victory against previously unbeaten Japanese fighter Nana Yoshikawa (4-1, 2). Yoshikawa, challenging in her first world title bout, was out fought from essentially the first round and was a wide loser on the cards with the only thing going in her favour being a point deduction from Ortiz in round 9 for low blows. The chief support bout saw former WBC Flyweight champion Sonny Boy Jaro (40-1-5, 28) take a majority decision over Shota Kawaguchi (18-6-1, 8) in a very competitive 8 round bout. This win for Jaro sees him scoring his first win in Japan after a trio of successive defeats in the country whilst Kawaguchi has now lost 2 of his last 3 bouts. The most competitive bout on this card ended in a draw as Takeshi Sone (5-3-3, 1) failed to over-come Il Che (7-8-5, 1) in a really close 6 rounder. The bout, scored a split draw, saw all 3 cards coming back close and there was little real complain about the result. In the opening bout of the show Ryuji Hayasho (2-4) claimed a rare win as he easily defeated Michio Mizuno (1-3-1). Kagoshima, Japan Outside of Osaka the only action came from Kagoshima in a very low profile and low quality card with no one of real note on the show. Despite the “low” quality it dd give us some competitive action, The main event was a sole 6 rounder that saw Naoya Haruguchi (7-5, 2) take a clear decision over Takayuki Teraji (5-8-1, 3). This was Haruguchi's second straight win after being beaten in last year's Rookie of the Year whilst Teraji has gone 1-5 in his last 6. The rest of the card was 4 rounders with 7 bouts scheduled for the short distance. Of the 7 contests only 3 went the schedule with all 3 of them being really competitive bouts. One saw Tsunehiko Aitoku (2-3-1) score a surprise win over Shinichi Nomoto (4-6-3, 2) with really close scorecards turned in by all 3 judges. Another of the competitive bout saw the unbeaten Genyu Nakano (0-0-2) score his second career draw as he was held to split decision draw by Ryusuke Ushihara (0-0-1). A second draw saw Kana Fukuda (3-1-1, 1) fight to a split draw with Yuki Henzan (1-4-2, 1) in the shows only female bout. On paper a well matched bout doesn't always end up being the most competitive and that was seen when Koichi Uryu (4-2-1, 3) blew away Daichi Ono (3-2, 2) at the very end of the opening round, with an official time of 3:08. A even shorter bout saw Mitsuyoshi Fujita (4-2, 2) defeat Ryo Ota (2-1, 1) in just 55 seconds. Another even looking bout saw Kensuke Minato (2-0, 1) defeat Tsuyoshi Matsuda (1-1) in the middle of round 3 whilst the remaining bout saw the debuting Takashi Matsugano (1-0, 1) score a 2nd round TKO against the win-less Ryuta Kozasa (0-4). (Image courtesy of boxingnews.jp)
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This past Monday was nothing short of a blockbuster day on the Japanese domestic scene with two notable cards and a host of interesting bouts. Tokyo, Japan The bigger of two cards was Dangan 113 which came from the Korakuen Hall and had a big of everything from a highly entertaining main event to a dreadful debut from a touted prospect, from a notable upset to a highly impressive debut. The main event saw Japanese Super Featherweight champion Rikki Naito (11-0, 5) retain his title with a clear decision over Shingo Eto (14-3-1, 9). The scores, which ready 98-93, twice, and 98-92 suggest it was a one-sided contest but certainly wasn't and Naito had to work incredibly hard to win the rounds and fight on despite a nose that was bloodied very early in the contest. The chief support was a genuine upset as the under-rated Hideo Sakamoto (15-1-2, 5) managed to stop the world ranked, WBC #12, Hiroki Shiino (11-4, 10). Shiino a former OPBF Bantamweight champion, was widely favoured to over-come Sakamoto though was made to look distinctly second rate by the more talented under-dog who will likely use this win to move towards a title shot, either nationally or regionally. Unfortunately for Shiino this was a second stoppage loss in 3 bouts following a loss late last year to Ryosulke Iwasa. Whilst Shiino's loss was an upset he did put up a good effort, not something that can be said of former amateur star Takaaki Kamikawa (0-1) who was frankly terrible against Shoma Fukumoto (5-1, 5). Kamikawa had turned professional with notable fanfare but this performance made it look like he was a rank amateur. Fukumoto isn't a terrible fighter but we expect much, much more from Kamikawa. Another minor upset saw Tatsuya Otsubo (5-6-1, 3) force a 3rd round TKO against Ryosuke Suzuki (4-2). Interestingly Otsubo was fighting for the first time in almost 3 years making the upset even more impressive. Another of the results that we had received from this card was that of Koji Benjamin Watanabe (0-1-1), a friend of the site. Sadly Watanabe was stopped in just 37 seconds by Daijiro Umemoto (1-0, 1) who appeared to be a very good prospect in the Light Welterweight division. When we first published this we were missing a number results. Of those bouts only went the distance as Yoshito Ikari (3-1-2, 3) fought to a 4 round majority draw with Naoya Sato (2-0-1). Between the other 3 bouts there was just 7 rounds of action. The longest of the bouts we've not yet mentioned went into round 3 as the previously winless Hironobu Suzuki (1-2, 1) got off the mark with a third round TKO over Takuya Gocho (0-3). The other bouts only went into round 2 and these saw Daisuke Fukuyama (3-2-1, 3) stop the debuting Kanehiro Nakagawa (0-1) and Takeshi Ishiwatari (1-0, 1) begin his campaign with a win over Yutaro Ogane (0-1). Osaka, Japan In Osaka fans got a smaller show that was headlined by a very promising female fighter, Nana Yoshikawa (4-0, 2). Yoshikawa made extremely quick work of former world title challenger Kledpetch KKP (6-4, 1) with a second round KO via a devastating body shot that saw Kledpetch down for the count. This was supposedly a world title prelude, or tune up, for Yoshikawa who we assume will have put the Light Flyweight on alert considering nobody had taken care of Kledpetch like this, even Shindo Go took 8 rounds to see off the Thai. As with the other card we were missing results when this was first published, sadly in this case it was for much of the show. Those results can now all be found below. Yoshikawa's bout was one of a trio of 8 round bouts. Another saw Eita Kikuchi (15-4-4, 7) score an 8th round TKO against the heavy handed but limited Toshiya Yokogawa (6-7-1, 5) whilst the other featured Shota Kawaguchi (18-5-1, 7) who scored an 8th round KO against Kosuke Isono (7-3-1, 1) with a beautiful right uppercut that left Isono out cold for quite a while. The sole 6 rounder on the show also ended early as Junki Oura (6-5, 2) took out Thai visitor Decha Janthasri (0-1) in the second round. It was also in the 2nd round of the scheduled 4 rounder than fans saw Takuya Uehara (2-0, 1) stop Kento Osumi (1-1, 1). The other undercard bouts all went the distance with many of them being very competitive outs. The most "one-sided" of these bouts saw Hiroya Kojima (3-2-1, 2) take a clear cut decision win over Ryusei Kitamua (2-1, 1) and Kosei Toyoda (3-1-1, 1) take a clear win over Masahiko Jikan (2-3). The closer contests saw Yu Konomura (3-2-1) take a split decision over Takuya Fujioka (3-4-1, 1), the previously win-less Tsuyoshi Hashimoto (1-2-1) take a majority decision win over the debuting Kenji Miyata (0-1) and Daisuke Takeichi (2-3, 1) take a majority decision win over Ryuji Hayashi (1-4). (Image courtesy of boxingnews.jp) |
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