Who would win this fight at 105 pounds? Nkosinathi "Mabere" Joyi (age 28) is the IBF title holder from South Africa and the Ring number 1 rated strawweight with a record of 21(15)-0-0 and 1 no contest. His first big win came against Florante Condes in June 2009 were Joyi won by comfortable UD in a title eliminator. He followed that with a UD win over Mexican Raul Garcia to win the IBF belt. His last fight ended in no contest against Katsunari Takayama. Here is is fight against Garcia: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY2hvIskS1U[/ame] Kazuto Ioka (age 22) is the WBC strawweight belt holder from Japan and is currently the Ring number 2 rated strawweight with a record of 8(5)-0-0. He won the WBC belt in only his 7th pro fight stopping then undefeated Oleydong Sithsamerchai in the 5th. He successfully defended the title this past week against Juan Hernandez by UD. Here is his title winning effort: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW2GVdP6ZIU&feature=related[/ame] Who you going go?
I'd edge to Joyi based on experience however it will be very close, I think Ioka has pound 4 pound potential.
Joyi by a wide margin. Ioka might have pound for pound potential, but Joyi is already there. Not to mention that Joyi would completely tower over Ioka.
It's true that Joyi could be on the p4p list. However the little guys, don't get much attention. In the Ring 100 last year he was rated behind the likes of Joshua Clottey (54), Kermit Cintron (57), Steve Molitor (64), Arthur Abraham (66), Nobuo Nashiro (71), Omar Nino (75), Paulie Malginaggi (77), Sebastian Sylvester (81), Ryan Rhodes (82), Librando Andrade (87), Sakio Bika (88), Juan Urango (92) and Antino Mundanie (93). Ioka wasn't even rated, and even though he's only had 8 fights, he hasn't been fighting bums. Perhaps they should fight each other then the winner fight Ivan Calderon, which might be enough to get them into the top 50.
