Shinsuke Yamanaka vs. Jose Nieves & Akira Yaegashi vs. Oscar Blanquet RBR

Hasegawa looks completely relaxed during the introductions, members of his corner dabbing his back and shoulders with a towel as he dances in place, shifting his weight from foot to foot and waving at the crowd.

Genaro Camargo does a full bow for the audience, head almost touching his toes, probably thinking "When in Rome"...

 

Round 1

Hasegawa comes out and touches gloves with Camargo, which he already did before the bell during ref's instructions. Very playful and calm demeanor on Hasegawa. A few light southpaw jabs from mid-range. Camargo stretches himself away, rolling his left glove around. Straight lefts to the body by Hasegawa, hurting Camargo. He whips in a couple more, and tags Camargo on the face, backing him up to the ropes. Camargo uses some backhand parries to knock Hasegawa's jab aside with the tape on his left wrist. 1-2 by Hasegawa, hurting Camargo. Hasegawa is fluttering the right jab and drills a left to the body. Camargo shies away into the ropes. Big overhand left by Hasegawa, and down goes Camargo. He beats the count but immediately dives in under the next Hasegawa overhand left to grab him around the waist. The ref says let go. Camargo throws an overhand right, a pretense to clinch. BIG chopping left from Hasegawa after pushing free - and Camargo is down on his face, not moving!

TKO1!!

 

Well, he's still got the old power. (or rather, er, the power he suddenly developed several years into his career... :!

 

I honestly can't pick between Hasegawa's KO and Yamanaka's for best of the day.

Nieves was caught with a perfect single blow that put his lights out, which is always a frightening bit of shock and awe.

Camargo, however, just got swept up in the mower blades like a frog on the lawn. He took a lot more damage than Nieves in the same amount of time.

 

:yep

...and yeah, that was pure class by HH to make sure he was OK.

 

No. :huh

It's a replay of some Top Rank card...but I'm struggling to place either combatant's face (although both look familiar) and their names are not printed on either of their waistbands and there are no graphics...

 

BUDI!!

 

So which Japanese boxer recently scored a KO2 of a tattooed Hispanic guy on a Top Rank card? :huh

It's really bugging me not being able to figure out who that was...