This past Sunday was a crazy day in Japan with 5 separate shows run across the country. Unfortunately with so much action it has taken us a few days to get all the results together but here they are. Osaka, Japan The biggest show of the day was in the IMP Hall in Osaka as Green Tsuda put on a 10 bout show, headlined by a Japanese Bantamweight title fight. This show began with 6 bouts scheduled for 4 rounds. These 4 rounders included just 2 stoppages with the quickest of those being an first round retirement scored by the debuting Naotoshi Nakatani (1-0, 1) who saw his foe Takafumi Yamada (4-4, 1) pull out at the end of the opener. In the other stoppage bout scheduled for 4 rounds it didn't take much of round 2 for the unbeaten Yuki Nagashima (5-0, 2) to stop Hiroto Sugai (1-3, 1). A third of the 4 rounders here failed to go the distance as the previously win-less Shosuke Jo (1-1) took a third technical decision over the debuting Kewpie Tsubasa (0-1). In the other 4 rounders Shohei Kawashima (5-0-1, 1 nigh on shut out Hikaru Matsumine (3-1), the unbeaten Michitaka Muto (2-0-1) was given a great run for his money by fellow novice Hirohide Murakami (1-2) and Kazuma Fukuyama (3-2-2) struggled past Ryota Yada (3-3, 2). The sole 6 rounder on this card lasted just 166 seconds as Tomonori Ota (5-4, 3) swiftly took care of Hisashi Kawanishi (4-6, 1). In a pair of 8 rounder we saw very competitive action. The most competitive, on the score cards, saw Yoshihito Ishizaki (9-6-1, 4) take a split decision over Ryota Kihara (6-8-4, 5) whilst in the other bout Takayuki Okumoto (11-6-2, 5) took a hard fought victory over the previously perfect Yuki Yonaha (3-1, 3). We had feared, going in to Okumoto/Yonaha, that the novice's lack of decent level competition would bite him in the backside though he put up a valiant fight and we'd not complain at seeing him at this level again. In the main event we got Japanese title action as Kentaro Masuda (19-6, 10) defeated Yu Kawaguchi (20-6, 9) via technical decision to claim the Japanese Bantamweight title. The belt, which had been vacated by Kohei Oba prior to his fight with Randy Caballero, now belongs in the the arms of Masuda who had previously failed in a Japanese title fight against the excellent Ryosuke Iwasa back in 2012. Ishikawa, Japan We got a second title bout on a card in Ishikawa which had a certain international feel to it with visitors from Thailand, the Philippines, China and South Korea. The only all-Japanese bout on this card saw Katsuteru Yoshifusa (1-0) claim a 4 round decision over the previously undefeated Kazuyuki Tomita (2-1). Following the all-Japanese bout we then had a trio of bouts pitting Chinese fighters against Japanese fighters, this 3 fight series ended at a very even 1-1-1. The Japanese win came in a female bout as the debuting Miki Matsumoto (1-0) out pointed China's poor Li Yun Ting (1-5, 1), who incidentally recorded her first distance fight. The Chinese win came as Xu Chan (2-0) over-came a 7lb weight disadvantage to defeat the debuting Kota Hamamoto (0-1). The series found no winner as Yukiya Hanabusa (5-2-2) was held to a 6 round majority draw by Xiang Jing (7-3-1, 1). After the undercard bouts we then got down to real action with a pair of well regarded Filipino's in action. These saw bouts went 2-0 for the Filipino fighter with Marlon Tapales (25-2, 9) taking a 5th round technical decision over Japan's Hayato Kimura (21-6, 15) and Mark Gil Melligen (18-4-1, 9) stopped the previously unbeaten Thai Bualuang OnesongchaiGym (12-1, 4) midway through the 5th round. The main event was the title bout as South Korean Ye-Joon Kim (8-1-2, 3) scored a 9th round TKO over Akihiro Matsumoto (12-5-1, 6) to claim the WBC Youth Super Bantamweight title. An interesting side note to this card is despite there being 7 Japanese fighters on this show only 2 actually won. Gifu, Japan Although there were no titles on the line at the Industrial Hall in Gifu we did see some very notable debutant action. The show began with 3 nondescript bouts which began with Yuya Shimakura (2-0) who outpointed Shinnosuke Yonekawa (1-3) over 4 rounds before Reiko Sugiyama (3-5-2, 2) stopped Hajime Ikeda (4-4) in 2 rounds and Hajime Kawase (5-7-2) took a competitive 6 round victory over Yujiro Nakamura (4-7-1, 2). It was after those undercard bouts that we got the debutant action. The second of the bouts involving debutants was an expected win for the very highly regarded former amateur stand out Genki Hanai (1-0, 1) who easily saw off fellow debutant Atiwit Munyapho (0-1) in 159 seconds. Hanai is seen as one of the potential stars of the future and made headlines in Japan when he announced his intention to turn professional. Although Hanai's victory is a good one it really pales in significance to the upset we saw in the other bout featuring a debutant as Thailand's Saranyu Intakaew (1-0, 1) scored a 48 second blow out of Japan's very own Toshihiko Adachi (13-7, 6). Although Adachi isn't one of the best Light Welterweight's in Japan this has certainly been a result that could leave Intakaew as one to watch. The main even on this show saw Futoshi Usami (12-1-1, 9) make light work of Akira Shono (7-6-2, 4) scoring a stoppage at the very end of round 2. Osaka, Japan A second show at the IMP Hall, though one with much less significance than the Japanese title bout spoken about above tough a lot more competitiveness, took place courtesy of Taiho Promotions. This show featured 8 bouts and began with some extremely competitive bouts as Ryosuke Morioka (0-0-1) was held to a split decision draw with Daiki Miyayama (2-2-1, 1), a split decision was also seen when Keisuke Tabuchi (4-1-2, 3) narrowly took a win over Noboru Osato (2-2-2, 1). Another competitive contest saw Chocoboy Oizumi (2-2-2, 1) take a slim unanimous decision over the previously unbeaten Naoki Taniwa (1-1, 1) whilst another 3 rounder saw the stoppage run of Takuma Hayashi (4-0, 3) come to an end with majority decision over the tough Yukitaka Nishida (4-8-2, 1). It wasn't just the 4 rounders that were well matched with both 6 rounders also being very narrow victories. These saw Takahito Osaka (6-0-2, 4) keep his unbeaten record with a razor thin unanimous decision over Hideo Mikan (6-6-1, 2) whilst Ken Osato (5-1, 3) only just beat Katsuhiko Kanno (8-8-7, 3) who is now win-less in 7. Even the main bouts were competitive as So Takenaka (20-7-2, 8) was given a hard work out by Thai debutant Wanchana Wilaiphut (0-1) and Satoru Sugita (8-2-1, 5) could only take a split decision over the more experienced Ryota Kajiki (22-9, 14). This may not have been the headline card but in terms of value for money this genuinely great, competitive and the sort of well matched bout that will bring people back to boxing! Well done Taiho. Hiroshima, Japan The remaining show took place at the Green Arena in Hiroshima and featured 10 bouts in total. For those wanting to see quick finishes this was the show for them with 7 bouts finishing inside the distance. Of the 3 bouts to go the distance one was the main event as Takashi Omae (12-3-5, 1) took a majority decision over Koji Itagaki (12-9-2, 5) in what turned out to be more competitive than we had expected. Another of the distance bouts saw the debuting Kazuya Okubo (1-0) taking a majority victory over the more experienced Teruyuki Kobashi (2-9-1, 1) whilst the other saw a shut out by Morihisa Iju (4-0, 3) who over-came Takuya Fujio (1-2-1) with ease. The quickest of the 7 stoppages on the card came after just 2 minutes as Toshiki Yanari (2-0, 2) won a battle of unbeaten Minimumweights stopping Takahiro Morisaki (1-1, 1). The only other opening round KO saw the debuting Takahiro Maeda (1-0, 1) score a stoppage at 3:09 of the opening round as he took out Makoto Yoshimura (0-2). The second round brought us 3 stoppages. The quickest of those saw Taiyo Inoue (1-1, 1) take out Garyu Takuma (1-5, 1) in just 63 seconds. Inoue's win was 8 seconds quicker than the one scored by Daigo Nakahiro (24-4-2, 10) over Thai novice Phetsaifar Lukmaelamperigym (0-3) which it's self was 9 seconds quicker than the one scored by Yuya Okazaki (9-7-1, 3), who took out another Thai novice in the form of Kittisak Sithsaithong (0-2). Both of the remaining stoppages came in round 4 with exactly the same time recorded, 1:00. These saw Shisato Okuma (6-1-2, 5) score a KO over Ryusuke Hoashi (1-4, 1) whilst Taichi Yoshizato (1-1, 1) scored his first pro victory with a TKO over Junya Akitake (0-2). (Image courtesy of boxingnews.jp)
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