7-More pressure early by Hosokawa, Okada now responding and rocks Hosokawa, the challenger grits his teeth again and comes forward, good right...
6-Hosokawa obviously not happy with the judges and is out there to hurt Okada here, really continues to be in Okada's faces and is unloading,...
Open scoring 49-46, 50 - 45 x 2...all to Okada...not sure what the judges are watching here...but maybe not good to give Hosokawa more fire
5-More of the same with Hosokawa bringing the pressure from the off, a big right hand from Hosokawa, Okada lands a hard shot to the body, Hosokawa...
4-Okada looking sharper here but still can't get Hosokawa's respect or make the challenger back off, good right hand by Okada but it just bounces...
3-Hosokawa again on the front foot, Okada starting to build his jab, a wild right from Okada misses and Hosokawa counters, Hosokawa on the...
2-Hosokawa again trying to apply the pressure and take the fight to Okada, Okada not quite getting his range here and misses-narrowly, with a big...
1-Okada trying to fight at mid range and use his size advantage, Hosokawa looking to apply pressure - but may be playing into Okada's hands as the...
Japanese Light Welterweight title fight coming up Hiroki Okada (13-0, 10) v Valentine Hosokawa (20-5-3, 9), 6th defense for Okada who is likely to...
Ohashi gets the decision, he deserved it from what I saw but again, didn't pay enough attnetion to really say
We're heading into the 8th round, the fight has become more exciting with each passing round, but has still struggled to recapture my attention sadly
This hasn't been terrible but it's struggling to keep my attention, crowd are slowly warming to the fight which is nice but I think the big break...
This fight took a while to get going, now in round 2, the venue has filled out a bit, but this isn't a fight that will excite them...
Yukinori Oguni speaking ahead of his fight with Jonathan Guzman in December...he's still feeling halloweeny!...
5th bout- Takenori Ohashi (12-4-2, 8) v Takahiro Araki (9-5, 4) Both have JBC rankings coming in to this one