The 2-day boxing extravaganza, or if you happen to favor, pageant, bought to a fantastic, dramatic begin earlier at the moment in Tokyo, Japan. Followers noticed a giant upset, as Takuma Inoue misplaced his WBA bantamweight title when his countryman Seiya Tsutsumi gained through 12 12-round unanimous resolution. Whereas Kenshiro Teraji, AKA “The Superb Boy,” busted up and stopped Cristofer Rosales through eleventh spherical nook retirement to win the vacant WBC flyweight title, with Teraji now a two-weight champion.
Additionally on the cardboard, Shokichi Iwata stopped Jairo Noriega within the third spherical to win the vacant WBO gentle flyweight title, and Seigo Yuri Akui retained his WBA flyweight title with a 12-round cut up resolution win over Thananchai Charanphak.
The largest story is, in fact, the shock loss suffered by “the opposite Inoue,” Takuma Inoue, brother of “The Monster,” Naoya Inoue. In an outstanding, if considerably surprisingly one-sided, motion struggle, Tsutsumi, at simply 12-0-2 courtesy of his enormous win, overcame a powerful begin by Inoue. He went on to outfight and outwork the defending champion, with Tsutsumi being credited with a knockdown in spherical 11 and Inoue insisting he had slipped.
28-year-old Tsutsumi was taking a giant step up at school at the moment, and with the win, he ripped up some massive plans on the a part of Inoue, now 20-2(5). As followers could recall, Naoya Inoue laid down the problem to potential super-fight foe Junto Nakatanki to “undergo Takuma earlier than transferring up (in weight) to struggle me.” Nakatani was up for a struggle with each Inoue brothers; now, that struggle with Takuma is off the desk.
The place Takuma Inoue goes now will show fascinating, whereas new champ Tsutsumi has put himself smack, bang in the course of the big-fight image (the parents at RingTV.com are calling at the moment’s successful struggle by Tsutsumi a Struggle of the Yr contender). How good is Tsutsumi? Did Inoue merely have an off-night? Will there be a rematch?
“Superb Boy” Teraji broke Rosales’ nostril fairly painfully early within the struggle, and ultimately, the co-challenger and former WBC champ at 112 kilos needed to be pulled out. The braveness proven by the Nicaraguan warrior matched the sheer class of Teraji, who is among the greatest lower-weight fighters within the sport at the moment.
Tomorrow in Tokyo, we are going to see Nakatani in motion towards Tasana Salapat in a WBC bantamweight title struggle. The always-exciting Kosei Tanaka will defend his WBO junior bantamweight strap towards Phumelele Cafu, and WBO flyweight champ Anthony Olascuaga will defend towards Jonathan Gonzalez.
It guarantees to be one other nice day of boxing from the game’s little giants.
