Hozumi Hasegawa

Tokuyama has showed me better stuff then Hozumi so far..but Hozumi is certainly hitting his straps now and is a litte more efficient and workmanlike in his approach. Hasegawa is an excellent boxer aswell.

Tokuyama was a very fast, athletically gifted fighter whos constant movement and angles made him a bugger to mount any kind of good offence against and his speed and explosiveness from tricky angles also made him hard to defend against..his style was really hard to deal with until he got tired, then his whiskers would usually get tested a bit more and they proved to be not so good. He probably lost and quite got often knocked down in the last round of every 12 round fight ive seen of him..but he looked awesome for most of the fight before that.

The fight against Malinga is on youtube now...Hozumi looks great. Awesome counter to send him down initally, then he just swarms over him and displays his physical strength in dominating the african...Looks the **** tonight, best bantam on the planet yo.

 

Very good fighter, an elite technician, his resumes week though, he's in dire need of some good names so i wanna see him fight Montiel, i think it would be a great fight and it would give him some buzz, which he desperately needs if he wants to make an impact on the game

 

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Hasegawa vs Malinga


Hasegawa shows some pure ****ing class in this fight!:ko

 

I think its pretty solid..but its time for unification or big names like Montiel or Vic.

Though 2 wins over Sahaprom, Raf Marquez's conquerer Genaro Garcia , a very clear win over the long time Euro champ, 2 very dominant wins on the trot against who many thought were two of the most solid prospects of the division..is not weak IMO.

 

Tokuyama was Japanese. He was born in Japan, raised in Japan and lived in Japan. He was just a Korean citizen because he was a displaced ethnic Korean, and there's a law in Japan that says that displaced Koreans in Japan can choose to be Korean citizens rather than Japanese citizens. He didn't even learn how to speak Korean until after he retired.

It would be like saying the best fighter to come out of Wales is Joe Calzaghe, even though he's ethnically Italian.

 

Very very solid, I agree - Hasegawa's record.

 

he fought out of Japan, just like almost all the best Russians/Ukrainians/Eurasians etc fight out of Germany.

 

U didnt know?

 

Does anyone know what he said the post fight interview - ie: did he mention any names?:hey

 

hope he fights outside of japan but most jap fighters stay in their country all through out their careers... wonder why

 

Because they get paid and they're more popular at home than they would be if they travelled, perhaps? Why travel halfway across the world unless you're going to get paid more than you make at home, or at least fight in front of a bigger audience?

Let's face it, unless a network like HBO or Showtime ponies up the $$$ to make them travel, they're not going to. And the networks generally won't pay that kind of price for someone that fans don't already know about, so it's really a catch 22. What I'd like to see is for HBO/Sho to just pay a little bit for the re-airing rights because there are some pretty good Asian fighters in the lower weight classes that most guys never get a chance to see, so the assumption is they must be fighting terrible comp.

 

he ain't mention no names, he was talkin about his family for most of the interview, like we give a ****.....but nah, he needs to call out the big boys, i wanna see him put a whoop on Montiel, since he dodged my boy Nonito

 

Great performance.......I stand by my six month old prediction, Hasegawa will stop Darchinyan.

 

he should fight outside japan. that's the only way he'll get the recognition he rightly deserves

 

True dat