 Tokyo, Japan
The big show this past Wednesday came from the Korakuen Hall where fans got a real treat of a card with several notable names in significant bouts. The most notable of the bouts was the shows main event which saw talented southpaw Shingo Wake (19-4-2, 11) show off his ability and dominate Thai veteran Mike Tawatchai (35-8-1, 21) in an IBF Super Bantamweight world title eliminator. The bout was all Wake who dropped only a round or two against a man who really had no answer to his skills, speed or movement. The fight was for the right to become Carl Frampton's mandatory and it's fair to say that Wake will be a very interested party when Frampton defends his title against Alejandro Gonzalez Jr in July. Another notable man in action was former world title challenger Hisashi Amagasa (29-5-2, 19) who easily out pointed Patomsith Pathompothong (12-4, 5) in what was Amagasa's first bout since his loss to Guillermo Rigondeaux last December. Although Amagasa failed to get the knockout he was completely in charge from the opening round. Another one sided bout saw popular female fighter Tomomi Takano (8-1, 5) claim her first title as she won the OPBF female Super Bantamweight title with a dominant display against Thailand's Nongbua Lookpraiaree (9-13-1, 1). Takano used her reach and height to keep Nongbua at range where she was unable to land anything of note. Although the win was a clear one for Takano it seems obvious that she was fighting a tailor made opponent who never had anything to threaten her with. On the bottom part of this card there was a trio of 8 round under-card bouts. One of those saw the return to the ring of the touted Kenta Onjo (5-1, 3) who easily out pointed San Saknarong (2-3). This was Onjo's first bout since his surprise defeat to Jonathan Baat earlier this year. Another of the under-card bouts saw Takaaki Ishikawa (11-6, 6) score a 4th round TKO against Kanae Onogi (6-8-1, 3) whilst another saw Kazuki Matsuyama (12-5, 6) score a 3rd round TKO against Yoshiyuki Suzuki (5-8-5, 1). Khon Kaen, Thailand As well as the card in Japan there was also one in Thailand. The headline bout here saw highly regarded Bantamweight hopeful Suriyan Sor Rungvisai (42-6-1, 21) score a 2nd round KO against Filipino slugger Jomar Fajardo (14-8-2, 7). Sadly this bout ended with Fajardo suffering a nasty looking injury to his shoulder. Another bout here saw the exciting but limited Kongfah Nakornluang (22-0, 14) defeat Filipino visitor Wilber Andogan (10-20-4, 4) in a gruelling contest. Andogan retired in his corner with what appeared to be another injury. We also know that Jirapan Nakornluang was in action on this show though we're unsure on who he was facing or the eventual result from from the bout. (Image courtesy of boxingnews.jp)
0 Comments
 Tokyo, Japan
This past Monday saw Japanese fans enjoying a really good looking card at the Korakuen Hall. The card, on paper, had 2 really good looking match ups, a return to action for a female fighter that we are big fans off, and a couple of interesting under-card bouts. It wasn't a mega show but it was a very solid looking international card. In the main event fans saw former Japanese Lightweight champion Akihiro Kondo (21-5-1, 10) get his career back on track after a surprise loss last December to Tomoya Yamada. Kondo was facing former “world” title challenger Jimrex Jaca (39-8-4, 22), a popular Filipino puncher. On paper it was a brilliant match up and we expected it to be a test between Kondo's chin and Jaca's vicious power. Instead it turned out that Kondo was the man with the danger fists and forced a 4th round stoppage a very exciting and enthralling contest. Surprisingly after the bout Kondo announced that he would be back in the ring on April 22nd to fight another Filipino visitor, Ricky Sismundo, in what looks like another excellent match up. The other notable match up didn't go as well for Japan with the much touted Kenta Onjo (4-1, 3) being surprisingly stopped by the shop worn and smaller Filipino Jonathan Baat (28-6-3, 14) in the 5th round of their bout. Onjo had been touted as a future title holder but was taking a big step up in class, it was however seen as smart step up with Baat having fought much of his career at Super Bantamweight before moving up to Super Featherweight for this bout. It appears with the shackles of weight off his shoulders Baat was more a more durable fighter and found a home for his right hands which took their toll on the Japanese youngster. In a horrible mismatch fans saw former female world champion Tenkai Tsunami (21-10, 10) score a 2nd round victory over Thai visitor Rathsada Sor Worasin (0-5). We are Tsunami fans and understand she has been in very over the last few years so don't begrudge her too much for an easy bout like this, but it was a predictable outcome. Another good looking bout, at least on paper, saw Yukiya Hanabusa (8-2-2, 2) score a surprisingly early stoppage against Yudai Arai (6-2-3, 3). On paper this was a well matched bout but Hanabusa managed to see off Arai in just the second round. We saw more stoppages in the couple of scheduled 6 rounders. The quickest of these saw Minoru Iizuka (5-2, 5) score a 111 second victory over Masaharu Hanaka (4-2-1, 2). The other 6 rounder went in to the 2nd round as Naoaki Kumagai (5-2, 3) over-came Hitoshi Ando (4-9-1, 3). The only 4 rounder on this card saw Fumiya Naoi (2-0) defeat the struggling Seiji Honma (1-5) with a 4 round decision. (Image courtesy of boxingnews.jp)  Tokyo, Japan
The only Asian show this Monday came from Tokyo as we got "Fighting Bee Vol 9" from the Korakuen Hall. At the moment we don't have all the results, unfortunately, though we do have the results for the most significant contests on the card. In the main event fans saw former Japanese Lightweight champion Akihiro Kondo (20-4-1, 9) quickly dispatch of Thailand's Kaewkla Chaiyonggym (0-2). Kondo had been announced for a show in December and knew he needed to get through this one without taking any real damage and that's exactly what he did by stopping his Thai foe in just 105 seconds. In a Middleweight bout Yasuyuki Akiyama (10-4-1, 8) stopped Kazuaki Irisawa (8-6, 5) with just seconds of round 8 left. The referee was forced to save Kazuaki as Akiyama started to unload through a big 7th round for the former ranked contender. In a really interesting 8 round bout made just below the Lightweight limit fans saw the talented and hot tipped Kenta Onjo (4-0, 3) take his first decision win and in style as he dominated the more experienced Kazuya Soma (7-6-2, 6). Soma, a real tough guy, was on the end of shut out loss to Onjo who won all 8 rounds and was never in any trouble at all. To his credit Soma tried to fight back but was unable to compete with the speed, skill or movement of Onjo who looks like he could be mixing at title level by the end of 2016, if not by the end of next year. In a female bout Momoko Kanda (8-6-2, 2) made very light work of Thai visitor Thanawan Sithsaithong (0-2) with an opening round KO, in fact this was over inside a minute. In a 6 rounder Seiji Watanabe (6-4-1, 2) claimed a very narrow win over the heavy handed but limited Ryu Horiguchi (4-4-1, 3) in one of the closest bouts on the card. Another competitive bout saw Akira Watanabe (1-3-1, 1) fighting to a 4 round draw with the unbeaten Masahiko Ashiya (1-0-2, 1). A third close contest saw the debuting Hyuga Aoki (1-0) take a hard fought win over the still win-less Masanori Shimomura (0-2). Another decision contest saw Keita Kurihara (4-4, 3) take a decision win over Satoru Morishita (3-7, 2). The sole stoppage on the under-card saw Seiji Honma (1-4, 1) record his first win as he stopped the debuting Hitachitaro Mito (0-1) in the second round. (Image courtesy of boxingnews.jp)  This past Monday may not have been the busiest day in boxing but it was still an interesting one courtesy of a single show which featured several promising prospects.
Tokyo, Japan The main bout saw the highly touted Naoto Uebayashi (5-0-1, 3) stopping Indonesian visitor Anis Ceunfin (16-19-5, 6) in the 5th of a scheduled 10 rounds. Uebayashi, pictured lining up a right hand on Ceunfin, is tipped for stardom and a bout against an experience foe like Ceunfin was expected to teach him new things, instead the Japanese fighter just dominated his opponent from the off. Uebayashi wasn't the only promising and unbeaten fighter on the show as hard hitting Lightweight Kenta Onjo (3-0, 3) managed to extend his winning run with a fantastic victory over Ryuji Ikeda (6-2-1, 2). Going in we were unsure on how good Onjo was but on the back of this we need to admit he is very promising and could go a very long way. The two main events were pretty one sided in terms of outcomes but the two support bouts, each scheduled for 6, were both somewhat competitive. Unfortunately one of those ended early as Yuji Okinori (6-1-1, 1) was forced to have a 3 round technical draw with Yudai Arai (3-1-3, 2). The other bout saw Joe Takeshima (6-3, 1) taking a split decision over Yudai Tamagawa (5-5-1, 2). The show opened with a trio of bouts scheduled for 4 rounds. Of those contests only a single one went the distance, this one saw the debuting Ryusei Nakajima (1-0) taking a clear debutant over Sho Yasutake (0-1). The other two bouts went a combined 4 minutes 57 seconds. The quicker of those two stoppages came after 2:12 seconds of the opening round as Masaharu Hanaka (3-0-1, 2) swiftly took out Masafumi Ando (2-4, 2), the other blow out, in an all debutant match up, saw Atsuhiko Suita (1-0, 1) wipe out Yoji Goto (0-1) at 2:45 in the opening round. (Image courtesy of boxingnews.jp) |
Archives
October 2015
Categories
All
|
RSS Feed
