Unbeaten WBA super-featherweight champ Takashi Uchiyama (18-0, 15 KOs), Japan, will put his belt on the line against Filipino hard-punching southpaw Michael Farenas (34-3-3, 26 KOs) in Saitama (close to Tokyo), Japan, on July 16. Uchiyama, making his fifth defense, wishes to extend his KO streak to six in world title bouts since he dethroned Juan Carlos Salgado via twelfth-round dramatic stoppage in January 2010. Also announced was the WBC flyweight mandatory title bout, where newly crowned Sonny Boy Jaro (34-10-5, 24 KOs), a free-swinging Filipino, will risk his belt against Japanese ex-Olympian Toshiyuki Igarashi (15-1-1, 10 KOs) on the same bill. Jaro stunned the world by demolishing long-reigning champ Pongsaklek Wonjongkam by an unexpected sixth-round TKO in the defending titlists home turf Thailand. Igarashi, a former representative in Olympic Games in Athens, is a fast-punching southpaw dependent on speed and skills, while the champ Jaro is a power-puncher as he so impressively dispatched Pongsaklek. It will be a couple of confrontations between Japanese and Filipinos to be co-promoted by Watanabe and Teiken Promotions.
gonna roll with Japan on this one.. Philippines have been scrambling to find the next Manny Pacquiao. They rush their fighters instead of mold them.
farenas is ok but too bad for him he's fighting uchi whos arguably the best in the division...dont know jaro's opponent but if he's any good and have decent chin , he should win it..
LOL Can't accept Amir and Shimoda has same level of chins. Shimoda's might even be more durable than Khan's.
I don't see how "rushing" has anything to do with these two fights, since Farenas is a 40 fight veteran and is ripe for a title shot. I think he gets stopped though.