Strangely one of the busiest days in Asian boxing has been October 6th, a day which has been particularly notable in recent years with a number of high profile bouts falling on this day. We've had to come up with a short list from the all the bouts and other notable events to fall on this day and hope that we've picked some that will be interesting to all fans. On this day in 1973 the world welcomed Katsushige Kawashima who was born in Chiba. Kawashima would later become the Japanese and WBC Super Flyweight champion with his stand out win being a very notable win over Masamori Tokuyama, stopping Toluyama inside a round back in 2006. Notably Kawashima was the first world champion from the now thriving Ohashi Gym stable, a stable that currently manages Naoya Inoue and Akira Yaegashi. In 1983 Japan's Jiro Watanabe successfully defended the WBA Flyweight title against South Korean challenger Soon-Chun Kwon. The bout, which saw Watanabe winning an 11th round technical decision to record the 5th defence of his world title. Watanabe would continue to hold the title until 1986 when he was eventually dethroned by Gilberto Roman. Interestingly Kwon would win the inaugural IBS Flyweight title just 2 months later as he stopped Rene Busayong and he would retain that title until 1985 when he lost his 3rd meeting with Jong Kwan Chung. Exactly 6 years after Watanabe's win over Kwon we saw Thailand's excellent Muangchai Kittikasem successfully defend his IBF Light Flyweight title with a 7th round stoppage over former champion Tacy Macalos. This was the second meeting between the two with the previous meeting coming 5 months earlier when the Thai won the title with a split decision over Macalos, in this second meeting there was doubt about the winner, despite Macalos being in the lead prior to the stoppage . In 2007 Filipino sensation Manny Pacquiao secured his second win over future hall of famer Marco Antonio Barrera. Pacquiao was defending the WBC International Super Featherweight title going in to this fight and took a clear decision, unfortunately he was unable to stop Barrera like he had in their first meeting less than 2 years earlier. Continuing with rematches we had the first of 2 bouts between Daiki Kameda and Denkaosan Kaovichit come on this day in 2009. In that bout Kaovichit narrowly retained the WBA Flyweight title with a majority decision win. A rematch 4 months later saw Kameda winning and becoming a world champion for the first time in his career. In 2012 we saw the second bout between Kompayak Porpramook and Adrian Hernandez. Porpramook had won their first meeting, a thriller the previous year, though was unable to repeat the performance over in Mexico as Hernandez reclaimed the WBC Light Flyweight, a title he recently lost to Naoya Inoue via a 6th round TKO. (Image, of Kawashima, courtesy of boxrec.com)
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