☆The Japanese Boxing Thread - Inoue wins; Olympic gold medallist Murata in action!☆

[kosaros]

Originally Posted by Lester1583

Damn, that's a nice card.

Have you seen Akaho's last fight, Kos?
What's your take on Akaho-Sato?

I haven't seen his fight against Tobe. It's not on any video sites that I've checked and I haven't managed to get a copy yet. That was a good win for Akaho, despite Tobe's inexperience - I know many fancied Tobe for that one, but I had a feeling Akaho would prevail (was still virtually 50-50 in my mind beforehand, however).

I've only seen the one video of Akaho on YouTube, so I can't really form a strong opinion on him (I'll have to look through my collection to see if I have any other footage of him). I haven't watched Sato's last fight yet either, but he looked fantastic in the first four rounds against Suriyan - if he can maintain that form over the distance, then he'll be (very) hard to beat.

By the way, the Miyazaki fight is on a separate card

[boranbkk]

Originally Posted by kosaros

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Takashi Uchiyama vs Bryan Vasquez
Yota Sato vs Ryo Akaho
Tepparith Kokietgym vs Kohei Kono
Ryo Miyazaki vs Pornsawan Porpramok

Four 'world' title fights, all taking place on December 31st.

Nice

Oooooohhhhh......yeahhhh....... Happy New Year!!!

How come BN can't pick up any of these Japanese cards? Too pricy?

[kosaros]

Originally Posted by boranbkk

Oooooohhhhh......yeahhhh....... Happy New Year!!!

How come BN can't pick up any of these Japanese cards? Too pricy?

Probably the lack of substantial interest for the most part (lower weights, as well...), the language barrier and the time the fights are on.

It would be interesting, however, if they got in contact with Teiken to see how much the cards would cost to screen (I doubt it would be much). Hell, they have Maloney on BN now; he can help them with discussions after the Nishioka-Munroe fight

[boranbkk]

Originally Posted by kosaros

Probably the lack of substantial interest for the most part (lower weights, as well...), the language barrier and the time the fights are on.

It would be interesting, however, if they got in contact with Teiken to see how much the cards would cost to screen (I doubt it would be much). Hell, they have Maloney on BN now; he can help them with discussions after the Nishioka-Munroe fight

Yeah, that makes alot of sense you'r probabaly right. But you'd think most BN subscriber's would be pretty hardcore and would give the lower weights a chance once they get the taste for some wars that go on out there. It's a real shame.

[brickfists]

Any body watching Yamanaka/Rojas & Igarashi/Narvaez ? should be starting soon, its on wowow channel which i think is on keyhole tv

[kosaros]

Shinsuke Yamanaka (17-0-2, 12KOs) scored an impressive stoppage victory, halting former WBC super flyweight champion Tomas Rojas (39-14-1, 26KOs) in the 7th round of their contest. With the victory, Yamanaka, 30, successfully defended his WBC bantamweight title for the second time.

In the supporting bout to the main event, lineal flyweight champion Toshiyuki Igarashi (18-1-1, 10KOs) scraped by with a majority decision over the unheralded Nestor Daniel Narvaes (19-1-2, 9KOs). Two judges scored the bout 114-112 to Igarashi, whilst the third judge had it level at 113-113.

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Good to see Yamanaka scoring the stoppage, although I did predict he would. This run of wins for Yamanaka will make it all the sweeter when the man in my avy scores his revenge over him in the near future!

[BoxingAnalyst]

Yamanaka is turning into a fine champion, great performance, stoppage was brutal!

[Lester1583]

Originally Posted by kosaros

Shinsuke Yamanaka (17-0-2, 12KOs) scored an impressive stoppage victory, halting former WBC super flyweight champion Tomas Rojas (39-14-1, 26KOs) in the 7th round of their contest.

Yamanaka vs Koki Kameda is the most anticipated fight in the world

Originally Posted by kosaros

This run of wins for Yamanaka will make it all the sweeter when the man in my avy scores his revenge over him in the near future!

No chance.

Iwasa is a samurai but Shinsuke is his daimyo!

[kosaros]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq0URhrwwIA[/ame]

[SkillspayBills]

Originally Posted by kosaros

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@ Him brushing hair back at end. G'd that KO up even more..

[BoxingAnalyst]

Originally Posted by SkillspayBills

@ Him brushing hair back at end. G'd that KO up even more..

[Flea Man]

Look, Gusano was never particularly good, that's get that out the way first.

But still, an absolutely savage stoppage from Yamanaka which, added to the Darchinyan win has marked him out as a good fighter, and bantam looks dead and buried at the moment so he has a chance to do some damage. Would love Mijares to put a bit of effort in and get down to 118lbs and take this guy on I reckon he'd merc him even now.

[kosaros]

Originally Posted by kosaros

...By the way, some people might remember me mentioning Yuta Saito (5-3-1, 4KOs) before after he scored this KO:

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/1691/yutasaitoko.gif

Well, he has reached the finals of the East Japan Rookie of the year tournament. He will be boxing Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi (5-3-1, 3KOs) at super flyweight on November 4th. If he wins that, then he'll be facing off against the West champion later this year for the full Rookie title

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAd_1U207pg[/ame]

[kosaros]

Looks like Shinsuke Yamanaka will be trying his luck in America next year, with a unification against Leo Santa Cruz being touted in the summer.

Firstly, he has to face the winner of the upcoming December fight between forgotten man Malcolm Tunacao and Christian Esquivel (who he previously beat for the vacant WBC title).

[Flea Man]

Tunacao has been around for donkeys years (Wonjongkam splattered him to take his FIRST WBC title!!!) but wow, Yamamaka Vs Santa Cruz is the way to go