Hugo Cazares LOSES WBA Super-Flyweight Title To Tomonobu Shimizu.

How time flies, eh? In the space of the last month, we've had a complete shuffle of the leading pack at super flyweight. We first had the departures of both Cristian Mijares and Omar Narvaez, both leaving to campaign at bantamweight, and we then had the shock happening of the unheralded Suriyan Sor Rungvisai toppeling respected champion Tomas Rojas in Thailand, which is covered here:

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=338830

Not too far away from Thailand in The Land Of The Rising Sun, earlier today Tomonobu Shimizu wrested the title from the last remaining champion of that dominant four, Hugo Cazares. The 30 year old Shimizu is not adverse to a world title challenge, he's just not used to winning them, being stopped at flyweight by both Pongsaklek Wonjongkam(2007) and Daisuke Naito(2008] respectively. Cazares' reign had been overrated a bit, and it looked as tough, despite his good form coming in(albeit against not so stellar opposition), Shimizu would be in the same mould as the Hiroyuki Hisataka's and Arturo Badillo's on Hugo's record i.e. not very good fighters(certainly not at 'world' level).

Alas, that was not to be and he was a split decision winner over the Mexican, winning by scores of 115-113 twice and 114-115. The fight has yet to surface, but as soon as it does I'll post it up, from what I've read from not so detailed reports is that Shimizu dominated early, Cazares came on strong in the middle rounds before Tomonobu regained control in the latter stages.

A very modest newly crowned champion said:

"I'm not talented, but I am the world champion now, thanks to the people who have supported me. When I took the champion's belt, I felt my dream had come true at last."

It did seem as though Cazares was at the helm of what was becoming a very stale division with a spate of departures and not an awful lot of inspiring up and comers, so maybe this, what is essentially an entire change-around is what is needed at the weight. At 33 it's hard to see him having any great longevity now, the best he can hope for is to secure a return.

Anyways though, congratulations to Tomonobu Shimizu on proving me wrong and on your title victory(if you're reading this, I'm sure you are), may your reign be a prosperous one!

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I 'd when I saw that too. Made a fan of me despite the fact I didn't actually see the fight. Modesty is the best policy.

 

Yeah, I'm kind of half-watching the Naito fight here and felt he was being a little bit harsh on himself. I mean, he's not too shabby technically though(then again, as I say, I'm not really watching properly). Quick, decent footwork(well, not really, QUICK feet is more apt, he circles far too wide), puts his punches together well, and I'm assuming he's made an at least somewhat decent improvement in the last few years.

 

IB:

The ****?

What is it with Asian countries and always ****ing about with their broadcasts? At least it doesn't only happen when I tune in I suppose.

I hear Kameda was rather erratic? I suppose I'll find that out from the RBR.:good

Yeah, Hugo's still pretty much the same guy he was at light-fly really, hard-hitting, aggressive, enemy of the jab except he didn't have the kind of imposing physical dimensions he did to the same extent. I said yesterday that I though he was there for the taking, but the 115lbs deterioration may benefit him with not many around to exploit it.

Still proves the point though that he would've been handled by Mijares OAN.

 

It's been on YouTube for a month!:scaredas:

This one completely slipped under my radar, going to have to give this one a watch tomorrow(or later on today if you want to get technical about it:yep) I suppose, I'm interested in seeing if the scoring was legitimate or if Hugo was in fact hard done by. Seems unlikely of course, considering everyone I've spoken to who watched it live(only 8 rounds broadcasted) said it was relatively close, so for Cazares to comprehensiely take all of those 4 unseen rounds seems difficult to envisage.

T'will give a good idea of how Tom gets on(or would get on to be more precise) with the other top fighters in the division, particularly Rungvisai/Chokchai, who I was very impressed with against Rojas, and I've also got my hands on his(Rungvisai's) fight with Pong, which I'm really eager to view, have a feeling that the Thai's gonna become one of my favourites in the coming years.:yep Really came out of nowhere to make a massive splash in the division.

Anyways, I've gone off on a tangent, here's the fight if anyone's interested:


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ACE slow-mo's at the start of part 3.