Amazon Prime: Junto Nakatani vs. Vincent Diazen Astrolabio & Riku Kano vs. Anthony Olascuaga RBR

Kōsei Tanaka is now in the ring addressing the fans, apologizing for not competing today and then bowing to each side of the crowd in Sumo Hall. Such a very uniquely culturually Japanese thing, publicly expressing contrition for your opponent's unprofessionalism.

 

Okay, this is far less exciting - a compilation of ring introductions?

edit: no, they had Michael Buffer introducing Pacquiao, then switched to him introducing Emanuel Navarrete, and now it's clips of Navarrete's kayos. What a dumb tease.

edit2: young Junito now, that's better.

 

Yeah, whole training camp for Tanaka down the drain. Shame they couldn't scrape together a late notice sub for him to at least stay busy, even in a non-title affair.

As for Titán, not sure what the hell he was thinking coming that heavy. He was lucky to even have this opportunity - ranked #12 by the WBO so not exactly front of the pack, and he really hasn't done jack since the loss to Ancajas.

 

Tenshin Nasukawa vs. Jonathan Rodríguez Torres, 10 rounds @ super bantamweight**


**technically actually a contracted catchweight of 120lbs; Nasukawa made it on the nose and Rodríguez came in at 119¼.

 

He shouldn't be ranked at either bantam or super bantam until he competes in either division. There's no such division as 120lbs.

 

Honestly no matter what the kid does - he could become a 5 weight class unified champion - he's never shaking the image of getting toyed with and stopped in minutes by an old, retired, laughingly phoning-it-in Mayweather. That was just capital humiliation.