The official OPBF (Oriental & Pacific Boxing Federation) title tracker thread!

We have dedicated threads for the renaissance of Japanese professional boxing and of course the ESB Tambayan, Piniks Edition - official Pinoy boxing roundup - but not really a centralized place to discuss these regional belts contended most often (but not exclusively) in the Land of the Rising Sun & the Peal of the Orient.

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(15 national commissions and 3 regional commissions - Hong Kong, Guam and Hawaii).

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Tomorrow will see Hiroaki Teshigawara defend his super bantamweight title against countryman Shohei Omori @ Korakuen Hall, but alas we aren't going to be able to watch it live:

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Other matches on the docket:

Jung Kyuong Lee will make his first defense of the 154lb title versus Akinori Watanabe on Sunday at home in S. Korea, and Jay-r Sarin Raquinel will make the second of his flyweight strap a fortnight from Friday, also at Korakuen.

 

In tomorrow's co-main event (which I'm not even sure will air on delay this weekend ) Kenichi Horikawa makes a second defense of the Japanese national light flyweight title - which he, pretty remarkably, captured this February just a few weeks before his 39th birthday - against Ryuto Oho, fifteen years his junior.

 

Ah, damn.

 

Result:

Spoiler

Teshigawara defended successfully via TKO12

(avoid today's date on BoxRec if you want to remain spoiler free until it airs this weekend)

 

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FYI:

https://www.boxingforum24.com/threa...kuya-kogawa-live-stream.635103/#post-20019285

The only scheduled OPBF title bout now on the docket is Aaron Lai (third defense) vs. Reagan Dessaix for the light heavyweight belt in New South Wales a month from now.

 

• 9/20 - Aaron Lai vs. Reagan Dessaix, light heavyweight (3rd defense of Lai). NSW, Australia.
• 10/9 - Rikki Naito vs. Gyu Beom Jeon, super lightweight (3rd defense of Naito). Cheonan, SK.
• 10/10 - Shuichiro Yoshino vs. Harmonito Dela Torre, lightweight (vacant). Tokyo, Japan.
• 10/11 - Shinobu Charlie Hosokawa vs. Koki Tyson II, middleweight (vacant). Tokyo, Japan.

 

Wakako Fujiwara vs. Yoshie Wakasa on Monday for the women's featherweight title, Fujiwara's second defense.

 

^^

 

Harmonito Boydon Dela Torre ventures into Korakuen Hall to challenge Shuichiro Yoshino for the vacant WBO Asia Pacific and vacant OPBF lightweight titles on Thursday.

 

^ Yoshino blitzed Dela Torre within two minutes and ten seconds of the opening bell!