Takashi Uchiyama vs. Roy Mukhlis for the WBA super featherweight world title.

This will be about six hours from now, with a decent undercard featuring three additional title fights (one world, two Asian).

In the other half of the main event, WBC #1 Kohei Kono and #2 Tomas Rojas vie for the vacant super flyweight world title.

Ryuji Migaki looks to tighten his grip on the Japanese lightweight scene (and the Oriental title) with a win over Akinori Kanai.

Unbeaten Allan Tanada of the Philippines will try to seize the vacant Oriental super featherweight championship on Japanese soil, with Rikiya Fukuhara standing in his way.

Rounding out the action is a six rounder between Keiichi Numata and Takashi Kunishige (who bravely stood up to a prolonged beating from Edgar Sosa for several rounds that were halfway between Cotto-Malignaggi and Darchinyan-Mijares, with a light hitter taking a licking from a very heavy one).

Is anybody interested in this and planning to check it out?

Who can shed some light on Indonesian challenger Mukhlis? Does he have anything to trouble the Saitama smasher, or provide a chance of beating him in his hometown?

 

Where are my well-informed international scene brethren? :yep

Paging Brickhaus, BigBone, Tackleberry, Lacyace, LordSharpshire (does he still post here?)

 

Yeah, hopefully Uchiyama's opponents get better.

Who do you like in Kono-Rojas? Rojas was doing pretty well until Darchinyan caught him with a perfect shot.

 

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(in the red)

He looks decent, but has been knocked out twice and we know Uchiyama has a punch.

 

I don't even know if this is being televised. It isn't on even KeyholeTV (the legal p2p stream provided by the Japanese Ministry of Affairs).

This is from the Twitter feed of someone who's actually at Saitama Super Arena:


# Uchiyama easily takes first round with a strong jab and several right hands to the body.

# Another round for the champ. Some hard shots early in the frame scored. 20-18 9 minutes ago

# I'm giving Uchiyama the third as well. He was able to land a few hard overhand rights. 30-27 5 minutes ago

# Uchiyama buzzes Mukhlis with 1-2, takes fourth on my card. It's a shutout so far. half a minute ago

# Fight is over! Uchiyama rocks the Indonesian with a right cross and finishes him off with a blistering flurry. 5R 2:27 less than 20 seconds ago

 

Here it is...

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Uchiyama's diligent use of the jab is a pleasant surprise here. :think

Nice finish.