Saturday’s tripleheader is now down to 2 title fights and a makeshift matchup.
Kosei Tanaka will not transfer ahead together with his WBO flyweight title protection versus Mexico’s Jonathan Rodriguez. The event is thru no fault of Tanaka (20-1, 11 knockouts), who made weight for his or her scheduled 12-round bout. Rodriguez (25-2-1, 17 KOs) was miserably over the 115-pound restrict, having missed weight by practically seven kilos.
The disparity was deemed unfit for the matchup to proceed in current kind.
“The match is cancelled,” revealed Tanaka, The Ring’s No. 4-rated junior bantamweight. “[Rodriguez] was 2.9kg over the restrict and gave up on the re-weigh-in. Bearing in mind the bodily situation of the opponent and the truth that a combat that has been declared invalid will not be factor, the choice to cancel the match has been made.
“Tomorrow I will probably be showing within the ring with a microphone as an alternative of gloves. We apologize for the unlucky information.”
試合中止です
相手選手が2.9kgオーバー
再計量も断念して計量失格相手選手の体調や
試合不成立になった戦いを行う事自体、本来良くない事
色々な事を踏まえて
試合中止という判断です明日はグローブではなく
マイクを持って
リングで皆さんに顔を見せます
残念なお知らせ誠に申し訳ございません。 pic.twitter.com/Eq3ehi74dy— 田中恒成/KOsei Tanaka (@KOsei530) July 19, 2024
Rodriguez will seemingly face disciplinary motion from the no-nonsense Japanese Boxing Fee (JBC).
The opposite two title fights on the present stay intact.
Junto Nakatani (27-0, 20 knockouts), No. 10 pound-for-pound defends his WBC 118-pound title versus the Philippines’ Vincent Astrolabio (19-4, 14 KOs). Nakatani is The Ring’s No. 1-rated bantamweight; Astrolabio is No. 7 and enters as Nakatani’s necessary challenger.
Riku Kano (22-4-2, 11 KOs) and Anthony Olascuaga (6-1, 4 KOs) meet for the vacant WBO flyweight title.
Tenshin Nasukawa (3-0, 1 KO) meets Puerto Rico’s Jonathan Rodriguez (17-2-1, 7 KOs). A win is predicted to push Nasukawa, a wildly standard former kickboxing star, nearer to a title shot within the infancy of his boxing profession.
All three bouts will air reside on ESPN+, starting at 5:00 a.m. ET/2:00 a.m. PT.