We here at Asian boxing are slowly growing to love the rather eccentric Yemeni boxing scene and we love our readers from Yemen. We were shocked however when we found out there had been a card in Yemen earlier today that did not feature the cult KO star Ali Raymi (12-0, 12) a fighter who has been slowly making his name heard around the world.
For those who are unaware Raymi will be returning to the ring on August 16th to face unbeaten Indonesian Espinos Sabu (9-0-1, 3) in what looks to be the toughest fight of Raymi's career. Despite their being no Raymi today there was still 6 Yemeni Minimumweights in action in Sanaa. The shortest of the 3 bouts saw Wesam Maqrami (2-0, 1) taking a 7th round stoppage over Sadeg Al Khulani (0-3). This was Khulani's second stoppage loss having also been stopped on his debut by Ali Dridi (Raymi's most recent opponent). Maqrami's stoppage was one of two as Mustafa Humaidi (4-0, 2) also managed to see his opponent off. Humaidi was taken into round 9 though finally got to Hasan Sabra (1-2) who was stopped at the 2:36 mark of the 9th round. The show did have a sole fight that managed to go the distance as Omar Awdan (5-0, 2) claimed a 10 round decision over Ali Al Ahdal (2-2, 1). With all 3 of the winners having unbeaten records there is every chance they will be throwing their hats into the Raymi sweepsteaks if "The Yemeni Valero" can get past Sabu in mid August. As well as the fights in Yemen there was also a show in the Philippines thanks to ALA Promotions. The main fight on the card saw Jimmy Paypa (13-2, 4) scrape past domestic journeyman Cristian Abila (9-12-3, 1) via a hotly debated split decision. Paypa was surprisingly knocked down by the light hitting Abila and we've got to admit this is a worry. Things were much less tricky for the unbeaten prospects on the card with Juren Labordo (10-0, 5) stopping Ricky Sabia (10-10-2, 5) inside 90 seconds counting as the most impressive. Though with victories also coming for Rolando Servania (4-0, 1) earning a decision over over Jonas Sultan (2-1, 1) and Junjessie Ibgos (5-0, 5) forcing a stoppage over Mamark Siano (1-3). The show also featured the long awaited return to the ring of John Rey Melligen (2-0, 1) who ended a break of almost 2 years away from the ring by stopping the debuting Jemart Amlani (0-1). Amlani was one of a number of debutants on the show. For Roniel Parcon (1-0), Alvin Sibugan (1-0) and Raul Yu (1-0, 1) things got off to a good start. Parcon out pointed fellow debutant Albert Campilan (0-1) whilst Sibugan out pointed Steven Recaborda (1-3). Yu was the only debutant to score a KO though it did come against another debutant in the form of Romel Rodondon (0-1).
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In Mexico the hard hitting Filipino Featherweight prospect Jun Doliguez (16-0-2, 12) was unfortunately held to a draw by Ruben Tamayo (22-4-4, 16).
The bout was Doliguez's first since signing with Zanfer Promotions and was possibly a bit too tough considering it was his first fight outside of his native Philippines. We'd imagine that he will be back in action before the end of the year as Zanfer do tend to put on a lot of shows, hopefully when they do next have Doliguez out next he'll take a victory. In South Korea we had a card that some how managed to go under the radar. The 10 bout show at the Yesan Highschool appears to have been quite a solid one and featured one or two recognisable names. The card had 6 bouts scheduled for 4 rounds, of those 2 failed to reach the final bell. The shortest bout saw Jae-Won Jang (2-0, 1) stopping Dae-In Hyun (1-2) mid way through the second round. It only took 15 seconds of round 3 for Sa-Ya Lee (2-2, 1) to follow suit stopping the debuting Hyun-Woo Yang (0-1). In decision victories over the short distance we saw the unbeaten Se-Joon Song (2-0) overcome Jae-Hyuk Lim (1-2) by the narrowest of margins and Joo-Young Lee (1-0) defeat Sun-Ok Choi (0-1) in a battle of debutants. Bizarely the card featured 3 draws in total with 2 of those coming over the 4 round distance. These draws saw Eun-Sung Jang (2-0-1) being held by Tae-Young Go (0-1-3), Moon-Sun Jung (1-1-2) holding Kwang-Hoon Jo (0-0-1) and Jin-Wook Lim (5-3-4, 1) settling for a draw with Ye-Joon Kim (4-1-2, 1) in one of the shows 6 round contests. The other 6 rounder on the show saw the experienced Young-Kyoon Lee (1-12-1) lose a split decision to Jae-Hoon Lee (4-3-1, 2). In the first of the shows 2 titles fights Taek-Min Kim (15-6, 10) claimed the South Korean Light Welterweight title by stopping Jin-Soo Kim (6-3, 3). This loss was the first time Jin-Soo Kim had been stopped and was incidentally the first win for Taek-Min Kim in 4 bouts after suffering a trio of losses. The main event featured, arguably the most famous current Korean boxer as Ji-Hoon Kim (25-9, 19) claimed the WBO Asia Pacific Welterweight title. "Valcano", as Ji-Hoon Kim is often dubbed, scored his first win in 3 bouts and first for the first in his native Korea in over 2 years. Kim easily stoped the over-matched Indonesian Roy Tua Manihuruk (14-8-2, 11) to get back to winning ways though we're unsure if Kim is actually going to make a run at the Welterweight divison. The weekend's boxing action kicked off with a world champion in action as Srisaket Sor Rungvisai (20-3-1, 19), the WBC Super Flyweight champion, stopped the over-matched Filipino Joan Imperial (9-3-5, 4) in 2 rounds. The bout, although televised was not a title bout as Srisaket merely had a stay busy bout, something that is common for Thai's.
Srisaket was in control of the bout and although he was forced to eat one eye catching a shot the champion never really broke sweat here with a dominant victory. We expect to see Srisaket out again in coming months as he looks to defend the world title he took from Yota Sato earlier this year. Do not be shocked if this destructive Thai wipes out many future opponents very quickly with his and style Following Srisaket's victory, his stable mate Nawaphon Por Chokchai (16-0, 11) was in action. Nawaphon, defending his WBC Asian Boxing Council Flyweight title for the 5th time, thoroughly beat brave Filipino Roque Lauro (9-15-4, 2) who took a real shellacking from the talented Nawaphon but refused to fold as he took the bout to a decision. The former world champion Suriyan Sor Rungvisai (28-5-1, 11) had the easiest outing of the day as he took out debuting Chandech Sor Ratidech (0-1) inside 2 minutes. On the same card Yodchanchai Nakornloung Promotion (22-3, 17) claimed a 6 round decision over Den Sithsaithong (1-6, 1) and Kongfah Nakornluang (5-0, 2) took out Petchthongchai Sithsaithong (0-1) in a round. In the Korakuen Hall fans were treat to a 9 fight show thanks to "reason" promotions. The 3 highlight bouts all saw unbeaten fighters continue their development. The promising Masayuki Ito (11-0-1, 3) had arguably the toughest test as he took on the hard hitting Taiki Minamoto (7-3, 6). With Minimoto's power it was fair to say that Ito was always going to have to keep his concentration out and that's exactly what he did as he took a decision in a competitive bout to record his second successive 8 round contest. On paper there was also a pretty tough contest for Tatsuya Yanagi (9-0, 3) as he took on Keisuke Arima (8-8-1). Although Arima's record doesn't show it he's a tricky opponent who rarely gets clearly beaten though that's exactly what Yanagi did hardly dropping a round against an opponent we thought could push him. It was only Katsunori Nagamine (9-0, 6) who actually had an easy day as he stopped the hard hitting Akira Tsurumi (10-5, 10) in the second of a scheduled 8. This was a great win considering that not only is Tsurumi a big hitter but had only been stopped once himself. The remaining 6 contests on the show were all 4 rounders and part of the "Rookie of the Year" competition. These bouts sawstoppages for Ryosuke Takami (2-0, 2) stopping Kenji Ishii (3-2, 3) in just 66 seconds, Yudai Tamagawa (5-3, 2) stopping Yuichi Katayama (2-1, 2) in 101 seconds, Takuya Matsusaka (4-1, 4) taking out Katsuya Abe (1-3) in 2 rounds and Akio Tomiyama (5-3, 4) taking out Kazuyuki Wakamatsu (3-1, 3) in 4. As well as the 4 stoppages two fights went to decision as Hiroto Kurosawa (5-1, 3) claimed a clear decision over Shunya Maruyama (3-1-1, 1) and Yuto Sasamori (5-3, 3) took a narrow one over Yoshifumi Tamaki (4-1, 2)). In Australia the Sudanese born Australian Korobo Etto (1-0) made a successful start to his professional career by out pointing Jake Gathercole (0-2-1) over 4 rounds. Kazahkstan's promising Zhanat Zhakiyanov (21-1, 13) maintained his winning run of 16 successive victories as he stopped Ukrainian Yuriy Voronin (27-21-2, 18) in the 7th round of a scheduled 8.
The Ricky Hatton trained Zhakiyanov seems likely to face Stephane Jamoye in his next fight or two in a battle for the European Bantamweight title. The same card also saw a victory for Agali Alyshev (19-5-2, 13) of Azerbaijan. Alyshev out pointed Georgian Anzor Gamgebeli (10-4-3, 4) over 6 rounds. 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. To kick off today's action we began in the Philippines thanks to the most recent edition of ALA's excellent "Pinoy Pride" cards. This, the 21st "Pinoy Pride", showed us why ALA are regarded as the best promotional company in the Philippines.
The televised card kicked off with with a split draw featuring Brian Lobitana (5-0-2, 4). We're not certain on who his opponent was at the moment but the 6 round contest was thoroughly enjoyable from the off with both men landing bombs from the opening round. We believe (though will correct this if we're wrong), that Lobitana was facing William Amora (5-1-1, 2), a late replacement for Gilbert Donasales. The second bout on the show saw a very impressive debut for Vic Saludar (1-0, 1) who stopped Juanito Hundante (1-2) in just 52 seconds. Unfortunately with such a quick blow out it was difficult to see just how good Saludar looked but with his amateur background we have big hopes for Vic. Saludar's quick blow out was followed up by a tough split decision victory for Diover Mangaya-ay (1-2-1) over Elmo Traya (1-1, 1). The bout was tough action from both men though in all honesty we felt Traya deserved the decision though can understand it being close. In a very impressive performance Jessel Mark Magsayo (2-0, 2) lived up to his moniker of "Magnificent" and stopped Jamjam Ungon (1-4) in 115 seconds. The ending came courtesy of a tremendous body shot by Magsayao that left Ungon unable to continue, and later being given oxygen in his corner (though he appeared to be fine, just in pain). The highly touted 19 year Albert Pagara (17-0, 12) put on a highly mature performance as he took apart Thai Khunkhiri Wor Wisaruth (9-5-1, 5) 2 rounds. Pagara spent the opening round using his jab and movement then really started to open up in the second round dropping Wisaruth twice with the referee waving the bout off after the second knockdown. From the looks of this Pagara may be one of the best prospects in world boxing. Former 2-time world title challenger AJ Banal (29-2-1, 21) returned to winning ways as he fought for the first time since October 2012. Banal faced Mexican Abraham Gomez (18-8-1, 9) and the bout was more of a street fight than a boxing contest as both men were cut from a headclash in the opening round and then Gomez attempted a ground and pound in the second round. Having tried several dirty tricks and being deducted 2 points Gomez refused to come out for round 3. In the first title fight of the day Arthur Villanueva (23-0, 13) stopped Arturo Badillo (21-5, 19) and claimed the WBO Asia Pacific Super Flyweight title. The bout was a war from the off as both men unloaded shot after shot on the other though Villlanueva managed to get the upperhand and hurt Badillo in round 4. Once he had Badillo hurt Villanueva refused to back off and forced a very good stoppage from the referee. The main event of the show saw Merlito Sabillo (23-0, 12) successfully defending his WBO Minimumweight title for the first time. Sabillo, taking on the tricky Colombian Jorle Estrada (17-7, 6), was in charge from the opening bell. Although Estrada had talked the talk coming in to the bout he did very little in the actual fight and forced Sabillo to chase him. Sabillo appeared to have problems landing much clean early on though started to have success when he began to target the body and it was ultimately a body shot that saw off the Colombian challenger dropping him for the full count in round 9. A full write up of this fight can be found here. Filipino cheers were also heard in Australia as Allan Tanada (12-2-3, 5) scored his second win in 5 bouts as he overcame Australian based Filipino Michael Correa (3-6-3, 1) via a 6 round decision. Unfortunately in Germany Japanese Super Middleweight Yuzo Kiyota (23-4-1, 21) came up short against the Russian born German Robert Stieglitz (45-3, 25). The bout, for the WBO Super Middleweight title, was a messy bout from the off with a lot of wrestling early on and very little clean. Unfortunately for Kiyota what clean action there was seemed to come from Stieglitz who was simply too quick for the challenger. The bout came to an unfortunate end in round 10 when the ringside doctor ruled Kiyota unable to continue due to a cut suffered from a clash of heads. This took us to the scorecards which widely in favour of the home fighter. Our full write up of this bout can be found here. On the same card as Kiyota's loss we also saw the Kazakhstan born German Christina Hammer (15-0, 7) successfully defend her female WBO and WBF Middleweight ttiles with a wide decision victory over Mikaela Lauren (19-3, 7). In Monaco things were much better for the WBA Light Welterweight champion Khabib Allakhverdiev (19-0, 9) who scored a stunning stoppage victory over former champion Souleymane M'baye (40-5-1, 22). This was the first defense for Allakhverdiev and whilst M'baye may be well beyond his best no one had beaten the Frenchman quite like this. For more information about this fight you can read our full write up here. Of course we also had Asian's in action on the American continent. For former WBC Super Featherweight champion Takahiro Ao (24-3-1, 11) his US debut was memorable. Ao, moving up in weight to Lightweight for the first time in his career, just dismantled Chilean journeyman Hardy Paredes (16-12, 10) in 2 rounds. Sadly for the hard hitting Riyo Togo (10-5-1, 9) history didn't repeat it's self with the Japanese fighter losing in Mexico to Mariana Juarez (37-7-3, 16) via a decision. The result was totally different to their first bout which saw Togo taking out Juarez inside a round though this was admittedly much more like the Juarez that fans know. With so much Asian action taking place around the world today we know we'll have to update this on a pretty reguar basis. For now however we only have a sole result.
The first result of the day that we received was from Thailand as veteran Terdsak Kokietgym (50-4-1, 32) successfully defended his PABA Super Featherweight Interim Title. Terdsak, facing Filipino Rodynie Rafol (10-5-2, 4) was pushed all the way by a tricky and awkward opponent and had the bout not been in Thailand we may well have seen a different winner. Aged 32 Terdsak is likely looking for one more world title bout. So far all 4 of his losses have come against world level opponents, however he is on the slide andhis long career does seem to be starting to take it's toll on him now. Rafol on the other hand looks like one of the more dangerous Filipino journeyman and isn't a fighter than many will enjoy facing. In Japan we had two cards. The first of those cards that we'll mention was held at the Central Gym, Kobe where Japanese Bantamweight champion Kohei Oba (34-2-1, 13) retained his belt. Oba stopped the #1 ranked Japanese challenger Satoshi Niwa (15-16-3, 2) who had taken a 5 fight unbeaten run in to the ring with him. Unfortunately for Niwa he lacked the skill needed to cope with the very talented Oba. The card in Kobe had 6 other bouts on it though the most notable was a minor upset as Filipino Marjohn Yap (19-9, 10) defeated Japan's very own Ryotaro Kawabata (8-2, 3) via a majority decision. This was Yap's first bout since losing a hard fought decision to Ryosuke Iwasa os Japanese promoters perhaps need to be aware that Yap is much better than his record indicates. The Yap/Kawabata decision was one of 2 majority decisions over the 8 round distance on the card, with Tokiya Nishioka (6-3-2, 2) also claiming the same result in his bout. Nishioka defeated Yuta Matsuda (9-8-2, 4) via a razor thin margin to record his second victory of the year. The remaining 8 round contest saw Yuma Iwahashi (10-5-1, 1) scoring a clear decision over Atsushi Aburada (7-5, 4). This was one of 2 unanimous decision's on the show with Shun Kosaka (3-0) shutting out Daisuke Uchiyama (2-3-1) in the other. In both of the other bouts the contests were ended early with Ryuya Yamanaka (5-1, 2) stopping Masaki Hirai (3-10-3, 2) in the 4th of a scheduled 6 and Takanari Hamamura (2-1, 2) stopping the debuting Daisuke Takeichi (0-1) Japan's other show took place at the home of Tokyo boxing, the Korakuen Hall. Promoted by Noguchi Promotions this 8 bout show saw Naoko Shibata (10-3, 3) retain her OPBF Female Light Flyweight title by scoring a second career victory over Mika Oda (5-7-1, 1). The bout was moderately competitive though there was only ever one winner on the scorecards. The female title fight was one of 6 unanimous deicisons on the show though it was only Kazutaka Takakuwa (9-6, 2) who really left no questions in his clear victory over Osamu Hashimoto (8-5, 1). In the victories for Hikaru Nishida (8-6-1, 2), Ryuji Yokoyama (9-1, 3), Ryu Kenshiro (5-5-1, 2) and Keisuke Kanazawa (2-2, 1) there was only a single point or two between them. Nishida's victory, which came against the experienced Kazuhiko Hidaka (31-7, 22) was perhaps the most surprising due to the massive experience edge of Hidaka. Despite the unanimous decision in this bout all 3 judges were close in their scores with 76-75 twice and 77-76 on the other card. Yokoyama's victory over Takushige Sato (4-4-1, 1) also saw the winner claiming the narrowest of narrow margins with cards of 58-56 and 58-57 (twice). Those scores were indentical to the scores that saw Kenshiro claim a victory over Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi (6-5-1, 3). For novice Kanazawa the judging was all over the place in his bout with Masahiro Fuse (0-1). The cards ranged from 40-35 to 39-38 so we've got to admit that it's a bit of a mystery and probably not as close as the other decisions on the card. The show also saw 2 stoppages. The quickest of those saw Jun Ishimoto (3-2, 2) stopping Tsuyoshi Nishimura (3-5-1, 1) in 112 seconds, the other stoppage saw Ryo Nakamura (7-2, 3) stopping Taro Mochizuki (4-6, 4) early in the 4th round. The following two contests were both aired on ESPN Friday Night Fights in the USA. The gutsy American-Korean Abraham Han (19-1, 12) unfortunately suffered the first defeat of his career. Han, facing the unbeaten Glen Tapia (19-0, 11) was stopped by the doctor between rounds 8 and 9. Prior to the stoppage, the bout had been thrilling and will go down as one of the most fan friendly contests of the year. Although Han spent much of the bout covered in his own blood he showed the sort of heart that Korean fighters are known for and he'll have made more than a few fans on the back of this performance. Filipino power puncher Drian Francisco (24-2, 19) was unfortunately also beaten on the same card as Chris Avalos (22-2, 16) managed to take his out work him in another highly entertaining contest. Francisco, a former WBA "interim" Super Flyweight champion seemed to be out muscled by Avalos, a natural Bantamweight, though was competitive due to his continual awkwardness. To kick off the boxing week Channel 7 had a midweek show that perhaps went under-the radar a bit more than many would have liked.
The broadcast oppened with talented youngster Knockout CP Freshmart (4-0, 3) defending his WBC Youth World Minimumweight title by stopping Filipino challenger Bimbo Nacionales (11-8, 2). Knockout started slowly seeing what Nacionales had to offer then really went to work in round 4 as he upped the pressure on his challenger. As the champion went through the gears he started to make Nacionales more and more uncomfortable and in round 5 Knockout twice dropped the challenger with the referee waving the bout off after the second knockdown. Knockout's stablemate Petch CP Freshmart (19-0, 13) was also victorious on the card as he claimed the first defense of his WBC Youth Super Flyweight title. Petch had to over come the spirited challenge of Filipino Roman Canto (8-2-2, 3) who was fighting away from hom for the first time in his career. Petch appeared to be on the verge of a stoppage at several times in the bout but Canto recovered well and went back to work in a genuinely enjoyable and highly active contest. Note-Boxrec have Petch's opponent down as Renan Trongco, whilst they may be correct the WBC opening scoring cards, written in English, displayed "Roman Canto" several times. So we're unsure. Note 2-Boxrec have since changed the fighter to Canto, clarifying what we had. 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). For fans of big action, this weekend seemed a little quiet. There was no "world" title bouts, there was no big name American action and there was little that really stood out.
Digging a bit deeper however there was a lot of under-the radar action across the planet. In fact we saw several world ranked fighters in action, albeit they weren't necessarily in high profile bouts. At the Korakuen Hall we had a Celes Promotions event headlined by the world ranked Rysouke Iwasa (15-1, 9). Iwasa, ranked by the WBC (#2), WBO (#3) and IBF (#15) easily out pointed the over-matched Jecker Buhawe (14-9-1, 9) taking a clear shut out. Although this bout doesn't appear to have been televised live it does seem likely that it will be shown later this week on Nippon TV along with the full undercard. On the undercard Spice Matsushita (11-8, 2) was forced to reitre between rounds 7 and 8 in a battle with Jun Hamana (8-1, 3). This was one of 3 early finishes with Romnick Magos (9-2, 5) stopping Kohei Kubo (15-4-1, 10) in round 5 and Yuki Kubo (3-1, 2) stopping Yoshihisa Inoue (1-1) in the second. What was shown on live TV (thanks to RCTI) was Indonesian Daud Cino Yordan (31-3-0-1, 23) claiming the IBO Lightweight title. The man dubbed "The Indonesia Thunder" successfully jumped up from Featherweight to defeat Argentinian Daniel Eduardo Brizuela (25-2-2-1, 8) via a unanimous deicison. As well as the 2 stoppages on the undercard there was also decision victories for Tetsuma Hayashi (22-2-1, 7) who was a clear victor over Marzon Cabilla (9-9-1, 4) and Yu Kimura (12-2-1, 2) who defeated Tatsuya Fukuhara (12-3-3, 3). Eyes are focussed on Nippon TV for the footage on Monday night! The Indonesian, fighting for the first time since being stopped by Simpiwe Vetyeka in April, carried his power up to 135lbs without any problems and rocked his naturally bigger opponent several times. Despite the clear power edge Yordan couldn't drop Brizuela who used his movement excellently to keep the bout very competitive (much more so than the cards showed). Unfortunately a cut suffered in the middle rounds by Yordan may end up keeping him out of the ring for the rest of the year. Unfortunately things weren't as successful for Yordan's compatriot Rasmanudin (17-4-2, 9) who was defeated by Australian Jason Cooper (7-1-1, 3) in a bout for the IBO Asia Pacific Buper Bantamweight title. It needs to be said that although Rasmanudin lost he put on a great show especially in round 10 which could go down as one of the rounds of the year. On the very same card Australian based Iranian Amir Ranjdar (11-20, 5) was stopped in 2 rounds by Aussie Sam Hogan (4-0, 2). This was the 6th straight stoppage loss for Ranjdar. Sadly in South Africa Silvester Lopez (20-6-2, 15) couldn't claim the IBO Super Bantamweight title. Lopez, fighting in South Africa for the first time was matched against fringe world title contender Thabo Sonjica (18-2, 13), who proved to be too big and too strong for the former Super Flyweight title contender. Sadly for Lopez he was stopped in the 6th round, the first stoppage loss of his career. With a record of 1-3-1 Lopez's career is now in tatters. We'd like to see him returning to the Filipino domestic scene but we're worried he'll become more of a journeyman on the international stage than anything else, a real shame for a man who just a few years ago looked to be a very promising young fighter. |
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