On the rising sun horizon: Hiroaki Teshigawara vs. Yuki Iriguchi tomorrow for the OPBF super bantamweight title Akihiro Kondo (former Japanese lightweight champ) vs. unbeaten Apinun Khongsong aka Downua Ruawaiking in a 140lb contest next Monday Shinobu Charlie Hosokawa vs. Yuki Nonaka on 2/24 for the OPBF middleweight title Kazuto Takesako vs. Shuji Kato on March 2nd for the Japanese national middleweight title Kosei Tanaka vs. Ryoichi Taguchi on March 16th for the WBO flyweight title Valentine Hosokawa vs. Koki Inoue on April 6th for the Japanese light welterweight title Taiki Minamoto vs. Reyia Abe on May 1st for the Japanese featherweight title Nobuyuki Shindo vs. Hironobu Matsunaga in the Minamoto vs. Abe co-main event for the Japanese light middleweight title.
You made this post a month before Takuma's pro debut...how were you already familiar with his in-ring style (what I presume you were referring to)? Was he in WSB or something, or did you just happen to closely follow his amateur career? (don't recall him being much of an international to-do, not an Olympian nor AIBA champ or anything, or even putting in cameos on those stages)
Also how wild is it that the OP of this board's largest ever Japanese boxing appreciation thread would be banned almost exactly a decade later for using (and then arguing and doubling down on the usage of after multiple mods chided him for it) a pejorative slur ...towards Japanese people?
Fantastic double header set for Friday on Boxing Raise (meaning videos WILL NOT be uploaded to YouTube by the Asianboxing team, but may be made available via their monthly newsletter)
What?!?! You can't instantly recall the framing context for each of your nearly tenth of a million posts?? Lay off the Laphroaig, man!
Saka Vs Watanabe tomorrow...with that in mind enjoy Watanabe's 2014 bout with Jae Sung Lee This content is protected
And whilst were looking forward to Kuga Vs Furuhashi here's Kuga's 2019 title winning effort Vs Ryoichi Tamura This content is protected
A very merry month of May ahead: Kazuto Takesako vs. Riku Kunimoto, 5/1 - Japanese middleweight title. Ryōta Toyoshima vs. Yuki Beppu, 5/6 - OPBF and WBO Asia Pacific welterweight titles. Satoshi Shimizu vs. Musashi Mori, 5/13 - OPBF and WBO Asia Pacific featherweight titles. Jin Sasaki vs. Kaiki Yuba, 5/23 - Japanese Youth super lightweight title. Ginjiro Shigeoka vs. Toshiki Kawamitsu, 5/23 - WBO Asia Pacific 105lb title. All early alarm-worthy.
