On advice of Mr IB I bring you Maruta chan

A short video from the press conference to announce the bout.

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Did a request a bet with Paddy Power on him, he's 1/3 to claim a world title by the end of 2019...Takuma Inoue is 1/7 to claim one by the end of 2017...think I'll stay clear from either of those.

 

Maruta on the far left is about 3" taller than Nakamura (centre back), Nakamura fights at 130/135 so it seems plausible for Maruta to fight as high at 140 when he fully matures.

http://boxingnews.jp/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/mutoh.png

 

He dwarfed Brandon Lockhart, the West Rookie of the Year at Middleweight and gym mate, yesterday-
http://ameblo.jp/maruta-hinata/image-12095893712-13484526126.html

Less than a week to go...lets hope he doesn't "do an Obara"

 

Debut will have footage shown in about 10 hours on a TV channel in Kansai. Probably won't be able to get a stream but footage may be put on youtube or something!

 

:good

So not worth staying up late to catch it live, then?

 

Prospect, you're a good poster I don't want to see you get banned by Prof. Better edit that post, what happened to that Japanese dude who used to post here btw?

 

Been in touch with him, he's had a kid recently and been on holiday.

Not sure what was to edit from the post though =/

 

Hard to say what will be shown, his gym apparently said that debut and training footage would be shown

 

I see, speak of the devil, nice to see you back Takahiro lol.

Well it's a word that starts with s and ends with m, I've actually been banned just for saying it before.

 

:roll:

 

I'll be honest, I can't see the mods giving two ****s about a Japanese channel that we can't get anyway (especially not now Niji has gone and KHTV has become unusable). The channel is actually a free to air one...in Kansai only...elsewhere it's not screened.

 

Video?