Abema TV: Kazuto Ioka vs. Josber Alexander Pérez & Daigo Higa vs. Navapon Khaikanha RBR

Masayuki Urashima vs. Kota Matsuno, 6 rounds @ welterweight

 

I'd guess about 5am, to give it time not to push the main event off schedule whether it goes the distance or not. They've been chatting for half an hour but getting the fights underway now. Five bouts in three hours, will probably be some time padding no matter what.

 

Urashima is the baldy, 1-0-1. Matsuno is five years younger and five inches taller (5'11½″ to Urashima's 5'6½″) with a 3-1 record.

 

10-9 Urashima, good range control & peekaboo defense while launching sorties to bop Matusno atop the head with high lunging shots.

 

20-18 Urashima, sidestepping, baiting, setting traps, getting in some hard body shots. Matsuno following and tossing predictable jabs and rights, blocked or falling short.

 

3-0, Urashima piecing Matsuno up to head and body. The stoppage is there for him in the second half IMO.

 

Fourth was a better round for Matsuno, getting in some long pendulums on the body of Urashima, but he was belted in the mush with several hard shots as well.

 

Gulf in class here, Urashima getting the best of it even when Matsuno is the aggressor, or boxing tall at range. Urashima too good at rolling to his side, drawing the lead and throwing quick hard counters and not stopping to smell the roses.

 

This one currently wrapping up, then a flyweight debutant 4-rounder, then Ioka's buddy in a super fly 8-rounder, then a couple of 10-rounders (Tsutsumi vs. Ventura then Higa vs. Khaikanha) before the main event at 6am EST.

 

Urashima wins.

 

Kotaro Shigesato aka "Kantaro Juri" vs. Danai Ngiabphukhiaw, 8 rounds @ super flyweight