TBS: Kazuto Ioka vs. Ryoji Fukunaga & Akihiro Kondo vs. Aso Ishiwaki RBR

Round 11

Fukunaga is pressuring, blinding Ioka with right jabs and fluttering hungry-hippo lefts, then leaning back and straightening to full height to slip Ioka's counter flurries, only to boomerang in with heavy lefts. Ioka being kept trapped on the ropes for long periods, where Fukunaga can peck at him with little risk of being countered, exploiting the gap in their wingspans. Ioka becoming very passive, maybe saving his last big wad of energy for the grand finale. He spends a lot of time on the backfoot, then plants his feet and lands some nice hooks on the body or rights on the face only to retreat some more.

10-9 Fukunaga

105-104 Fukunaga

 

Round 12

Fukunaga is turned sideways, crowding in on Ioka with the right jab unfurled like a royal carpet, then retracting it slowly and shrugging aside Ioka's left jab if one comes before his arm is all the way reeled in yet. Fukunaga with a sloppy lawn sprinkler attack of jabs and rights at mid-range now, taking some meaty left hooks downstairs from Ioka but smothering him and seizing generalship by using two-handed shoves and hip-checks to guide Ioka up against the ropes or corners. Ioka stuns Fukunaga with a couple of stiff jabs but can't maintain momentum, just too weary. Fukunaga with some big left hands initiating combos, ripping right hooks to stem off the side hatch as an escape route for Ioka.

10-9 Fukunaga

115-113 Fukunaga

 

Official cards:

116-112
118-110
115-113

UD for Ioka

 

Michiaki Someya was the judge with the 118-110.

...now look, I love Kazuto, but that is an objectively atrocious scorecard.

That's a bad or corrupt judge.

 

Anybody speak Japanese, know what Ioka said in that speech?