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For the second day this week the Korakuen Hall played host to boxing as Japanese Minimumweight champion Ryuji Hara (14-0, 10) made the first defense of his national title defeating the under-rated Yuma Iwahashi (9-5-1, 1) via a close and competitive 10 round decision. Hara, part of the Ohashi Gym stable of fighters is seen as a major prospect in the lower divisions now that Ioka and Yaegashi have moved up to 108 and 112 respectively.

 

Also in title action, the card saw Ayaka Miyao (14-5-1, 1 OR 10-1-1, 1) successfully defend her WBA Atomweight title against Masae Akitaya (8-4-2, 3) (See Female Boxing News for more on this bout).

 

Away from the title scene Super Featherweight Yuta Matsuda (9-7-2, 4) scored a notable upset as he stopped former national champion Seiichi Okada (16-4, 9) inside a round. This is the third successive stoppage loss for Okada who lost his title last year to Daiki Kaneko (LTKO8) and also suffered a loss to Alejandro Sanabria (LTKO8) also last year.

 

Promising youngster Ryo Matsumoto (6-0, 6) continued his impressive start to his career as he stopped Indonesian rival John Bajawa (11-3, 6) inside a round. Matsumoto, 19, is seen as one of the most promising prospects from the Ohashi Gym and on form like this it's easy to see why so many rate the Super Flyweight-come-Bantamweight so highly.

 

In minimumweight action Ken Agena (10-1-1, 5) scored a 7th round technical decision over the wonderfully named Makoto Army Yoshida (8-8-2, 5) and in female minimumweight action Mayumi Kubo (4-10-1) upset Chinatsu Saito (2-1) over 4 rounds in what was oddly their third fight together.

 

Finally in a battle of unbeaten Welterweights Tomokazu Ueda (2-0) defeated Akihiro Asahara (1-1) by 4 round decision.

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Results from Banduanyai School in Thailand (26th February)

 

Petch Kokietgym (16-1, 2) scored his second career stoppage stoppage as he forced Filipino Albert Alcoy (14-16-5, 4) to retire at the end of the 8th round. According to boxrec Petch won the PABA Bantamweight title as a result of this bout, though I find that difficult to understand given that Tabtimdaeng Na Rachawat defended that very title just 3 weeks ago. I assume that Petch won the interim title.

 

The promising Norasing Kokietgym (5-0, 3) scored his biggest win so far as he stopped former Filipino title holder Daniel Ferreras (11-6-1, 4) in 2 rounds.

 

The experienced Light Welterweight Decha Kokietgym (31-11-3, 16) took out Filipino Ronnel Esparas (10-10-1, 2) in 5 rounds.

 

Also on the card were victories for Jesus Singwancha (18-9, 8) who stopped debutant Wandee Kwanjaisrikot (0-1) and Flyweight Thongthailek Sor Tanapinyo (18-15, 8) stopped Yodpichai Sithsaithong (9-9, 3) in the only all Thai battle on the card.

 

 

Also in action were females Kanittha Kokietgym (18-5, 7) and Lamnammoon Kwanjaisrikort (0-4), with Kokietgym stopping in the third of 6 rounds.

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Results from Korakuen Hall (Wednesday 27th February)

 

Former world title challenger Takuya Kogawa (21-2, 12) successfully defended his Japanese Flyweight title by stopping Shigetaka Ikehara (23-5-2, 19) in the 10th round. This bout, a rematch from a little over a year ago (which Kogawa won on points), was the 3rd defense for Kogawa, who incidentally won the title in the first meeting between these two.

 

Best known for his losing effort in a WBC title bout to Pongsaklek Wonjongkam back in 2011, it may well be time for Kogawa to get a second bite of the cherry in an all Japanese clash with Ring Magazine and WBC champion Toshiyuki Igarashi (if Igarashi gets past Akira Yegashi in April).

 

 

The card also featured 6 other bouts.

 

Freakishly tall Welterweight Nobuyuki Shindo (13-2, 4) bounced back from his loss to Moon Hyun Yun by stopping Thai debutant Nattapol Sithsaithong (0-1) in the second round. Shindo, listed as being a 6'1" Southpaw, will be looking intently at the upcoming Japanese Welterweight title fight between Suyon Takayama (17-1, 7) and his former rival Yun (14-2-1, 2) when they meet on March 25th.

 

Super Flyweight Shuji Hamada (10-5-3, 2) ended a series of 4 fights with out a win thanks to a 7th round technical majority decision victory over Kaname Tabei (10-6-2, 7).

 

Featherweight Hiroyuki Sagehashi (6-5-2) scored his third successive win as he out pointed Yoshihisa Yokota (4-9-1, 2) who coincidentally suffered his third successive loss. In fact oddly both fighters drew their bout before the start of their current streaks.

 

Teenager Kazuki Umemura (1-1) ended a 14 month absence from the ring and scored his first win as he out pointed debutant Kazuki Sanpei (0-1) over 4 rounds.

 

Debutant Elfelos Vega (1-0, 1) needed just 85 seconds to get his record off to a positive start as he blew out fellow debutant Asahi Hatsumi (0-1) in a Middleweight clash.

 

In the solitary female fight on the card former world title contender Chika Mizutani (14-3, 7) stopped Thai Kransak Nontaburee (0-2) in the second round. In Nontaburee only previous bout also came against Mizuntani back in 2011 that time she was stopped in 3 rounds.

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Results from the Todoroki Arena (27th February)

 

In the main event, Japanese fans were left slightly disappointed by Masayuki Kuroda (21-4-2, 13) failing to claim the WBA Flyweight title from Argentinian visitor Juan Carlos Revecco (30-1, 16). Although the locals were highly energised in support of their fighter they couldn't quite will him to scoring an upset.

 

As well as the main event the card featured 5 bouts (none of which I saw on TYC Sports sadly)

 

South Korean Jung-Hoon Yang (8-5, 2) scored a notable upset over Japanese local Shamgar Koichi (15-5-1, 9) taking an 8 round decision in a very competitively competed bout. The South Korean visitor scored his first win in 4 attempts outside of his homeland (and was 0-3 in Japan prior to this bout) and sadly for the home fighter it was his third loss in his last 5 bouts.

 

Japanese Featherweight Akihiko Katagiri (12-6-1, 4) scored an excellent bounce back victory after being defeated last July by the unbeaten Gosuke Seki, Katagiri stopped hard hitting fellow Japanese fighter Taiki Minamoto (7-2, 6) in the 5th round of a scheduled 8. It was only the second time Minimoto had been beyond 8 rounds .

 

Japanese middleweight Yuto Shimizu (6-2-2, 1) scored his third straight victory after back to back defeats, as he out pointed Hikaru Nishida (6-6-1, 1). This bout saw both men going 8 rounds for the first time in their career.

 

Light Flyweight Ryo Narizuka (5-3) out pointed Tatsuya Omata (4-5, 2) in what was the 3rd straight loss (and 4th in 5 contests) for Omata who has just 1 win since August 2009.

 

In female fighting action Kanagawa's own Kimika Miyoshi (8-5-1, 3) defeated her perennial rival Riyo Togo (9-4-1, 8) via 8 round decision to claim the OPBF Female Bantamweight title. This was the fourth meeting between the two women and sees Miyoshi scoring her first victory in the series (Togo leads 2-1-1). At 37 years old this is likely to be Togo's final fight, and despite challenging for a world title just last year (losing a shut out to Janeth Perez) it probably is the perfect time to hang them up and pass the torch on to the 29 year old Miyoshi.

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Lucas Browne: "I can't overlook Japanese test"

 

LUCAS "BIG DADDY" BROWNE has fast earned a reputation as one of the heavyweight division's hard hitters, but he won't necessarily be looking for an early finish this Friday night.

 

The unbeaten Australian banger faces Masataka Takehara at Lions in Richlands, Queensland and knows he's likely to have a tough bout on his hands.

 

Japan's Takehara has a modest record of seven wins, seven defeats and three draws, but is regarded as someone who gives his all when sharing the ring with men from down under, having held Pieter Cronje and Alex Leapai to draws.

 

Read More: http://ringnews24.com/index.php/boxing-news/74070-lucas-browne-qi-cant-overlook-japanese-testq.html#ixzz2MBv4YUAw

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Pungluang Sor Singyu to make first defense!

 

Thai Bantamweight Pungluang Sor Singyu (43-1, 28) scored his biggest win so far back in October when he traveled to the Philippines and stopped AJ "Bazooka" Banal (28-2-1, 20) for the WBO Bantamweight title. Now the teak tough Thai, who's only loss came controversially to Belgian Stephan Jamoye (24-3, 14) in Jamoye's homeland, will travel to Namibia to face the unbeaten Paulus Ambunda (19-0, 10).

 

From a quick look at the footage available of the challenger this promises to be an enthralling war with the pressure of Sor Singyu against the aggressive, though sometimes wild looking offensive work of the challenger.

 

Although Ambunda is as good as unknown outside of his homeland the diminutive 32 year old is highly ranked by Boxrec.com (#17 at Bantamweight) though more correctly ranked by the IBO (who have him at #41) however the WBO, in their infinite wisdom have him #1. The WBO's ranking as wild as it is, is based on his record in WBO regional title bouts including the WBO Africa bantamweight title and the WBO International bantamweight title, though no opponent on his record matches the likes of Jamoye or Banal.

 

This bout will not only be the first title defense for Sor Singyu but also only the 3rd time he has fought outside of his homeland.

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Japanese born Aussie looks to rebuild

 

Once beaten Light Welterweight Charlie Sugiura (6-1, 5) was born in Japan with the birth name of Takashi Suguira, despite his roots in the Orient he has been based in Australia for his entire boxing career. He debuted as a professional back in October 2011 and after springing together 5 wins (4 by KO) over the following 8 months he was tipped by some as one of the shining stars of Australian boxing.

 

Sadly the shine on Sugiura's career got darkened very quickly last September when he ran into Australian based Filipino Joebert Delos Reyes (9-4-1, 7) who scored a stunning 2nd round TKO over Sugiura, dropping him 3 times and forcing the referees hard via the 3 knock down rule that was in effect.

 

Since his loss to Reyes, Sugiura has fought just once, claiming an easy victory over Allan Jay Tuniacao, who like Reyes was a Filipino born fighter who is based in Australia. Sugiura will now look to build on the victory over Tuniacao as he faces popular Australian journeyman Alex Athong (8-18-3, 5) in a scheduled 6 round bout. Although Athong's record is scratchy at best and includes 5 successive defeats coming into this bout, he is upset minded and famously defeated Steven Maxwell in an enthralling battle a year ago, dropping Maxwell 3 times. That victory over Maxwell, on the undercard of Daniel Geale v Osumanu Adama and Billy Dib v Eduardo Escobedo was sadly the last victory for Athong.

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Thai to face Australian badboy

 

Australian Dwight Ritchie (5-0, 1) may be known officially as "The Fighting Cowboy" though to others he's the Australian badboy who fought 4 times in 2009 whilst under-age (those 4 bouts have been reversed in to "No Contests"). This coming Friday he faces the hard hitting Thai journeyman Singdet Nonpitayakom (10-11-1, 8) who will be fighting in Australia for the third time as a professional.

 

Nonpitayakom made his "Aussie" debut almost a year to the day when he scored a 2nd round technical draw with former title challenger Czar Amonsot. He returned to Australia later that same year scoring a wide decision loss to the unbeaten and Irish born Dennis Hogan (11-0-1, 4) (a former Irish stand out amateur) who he managed to drop.

 

Although Ritchie will go in to the bout as the clear favourite, it's fair to say the experienced Thai will not be coming to just pick up his payment.

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Going to be difficult if he has been sparked by a journeyman. I am sceptical of fighters that come out of Australia and New Zealand, as there does seem to be a limited pool of talent. Plenty of bottom rung fighters to feast on - so to lose to one doesn't bode well.

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Charlie Ota to fight in the US for the second time

 

American born, Japanese based Welterweight/Light Middleweight Charlie Ota (21-1-1, 15) may have been born Charles Bellamy in New York City but it's as "Charlie Ota" that the fighter has been making his name in the East where he has become not only a popular fighter but also a decently successful one since his debut back in 2006 when he defeated Takayuki Hosokawa in Prefectural Gymnasium, Wakayama.

 

The former US Serviceman has had a fruitful career since fighting Hosokawa and fought 22 of his 2 bouts to date in Japan. It's not only been his activity thats been based in Japan but also his success as he's claimed both the Japanese national title and the OPBF Light thanks to an 8th round TKO victory over Akio Shibata.

 

Since winning his national and regional title Ota has made numerous defenses of both, defeating the likes of Australian based Nigerian King Davidson, Tadashi Yuba (twice), Taisei Marumoto and current Japanese champion Akio Shibata (who fights former world title contender Makoto Fuchigami for the OPBF Middleweight title in a few weeks time).

 

Ota fought for the first time on US soil almost a year ago to the date as he stopped Gundrick King in the 7th round in an impressive performance. He returns to the US to face journeyman Brandon Baue (12-9, 10) on Friday. Baue is best known for losing to former world champion Yuri Foreman last time out.

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Results from Bangkok University (27th February)

 

In the main event WIBA Minimumweight champion Samson Tor Buamas (28-3, 14) retained her belt by stopping Filipino challenger Aisah Alica (5-2, 4) in round 3. With such a 1 sided main event there was perhaps more interest in rest of the card which saw numerous young Thais fighting.

 

Despite the card having 4 solid prospects fighting they sadly were all in gimme matches as Tiger Tor Buamas (13-0, 11) took out Nongbeer Sor Bangkru (0-1) inside a round, Pharanpetch Tor Buamas (10-0, 8) took out Rafael Naros (0-1) in 3 rounds, Kaewfah Tor Buamas (10-0, 7) swatted Pakphum Tor Pornchai (0-1), also in 3 and Saengthong Tor Buamas (3-0, 3) made light work of Jitti Korpol (0-1) in 2 rounds.

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Ryosuke Iwasa continues on his way to a world title!

 

Once beaten prospect Ryosuke Iwasa (13-1, 9) may well be the best prospect in world boxing with a loss. The 23 year old bantamweight from Kashiwa, Chiba has been tipped for stardom ever since his professional debut back in 2008 and whilst that is a lot of pressure on a young fighter Iwasa has done his best to carry it.

 

Iwasa swiftly rose to prominence as a professional following his very impressive resume as an amateur. As a professional he beat experienced opponents including Kinshiro Usui (TKO4) and Marvin Tampus (UD8) in just his first handful of fights. Sadly however Iwasa was rushed a little bit too quickly and in 2011 he lost an exciting war with Shinsuke Yamanaka for the Japanese Bantamweight title. At the time that was a serious set back, though since then Yamanaka has really proved his quality claiming the WBC Bantamweight title in just his next fight by stopping Christian Esquivel and making 2 defenses (defeating former title holders Vic Darchinyan and Tomas Rojas).

 

Following his solitary defeat Iwasa has scored 5 wins and won the Japanese title fight. In fact his title reign as Japanese Bantamweight champion started just 12 days after Yamanaka claimed his world title.

 

Last time out Iwasa defeated former title challenger David De La Mora, a fighter who is best known in the west for being thoroughly outclassed by Anselmo Moreno though in the East he is better known for taking Koki Kameda to a razor thin decision. Iwasa did a much, much better job on De La Mora than Kameda did and staked a real claim to being Japan's #2 fighter at 118 ahead of Kameda but behind Yamanaka.

 

Iwasa kicks off his 2013 by facing Indonesian veteran Marjohn Yap (18-8, 10) in a 10 round none title bout at the Japanese mecca of boxing the Korakuen Hall. A victory over Yap is highly expected though the real view is that this will be a keep busy fight for the exciting Iwasa before he gets world title bout later this year.

 

 

Also on the card are former Japanese title challenger Tetsuma Hayashi (20-2-1, 7) who faces former world title challenger Junichi Ebisuoka (23-14-5, 10) and Takayasu Kobayashi (16-5-3, 2) who was stopped in 2011 by "lineal" flyweight champion Toshiyuki Igarashi.

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Nietes, Servania, Jaca and others in action Saturday!

 

The Cebu City Waterfront Hotel & Casino plays host to an enthralling looking card this coming Saturday as we see world championship action and one of the hottest prospects in world boxing in action!

 

The main event sees WBO Light Flyweight champion Donnie Nietes (31-1-3, 17) defend against WBO Minimumweight champion Moises Fuentes (16-1, 8). Nietes is one of the most under-rated fighters on the planet despite scoring wins over a relative who's who of the lower weights including Pornsawan Porpramook, Manuel Vargas, Jesus Silvestre, Mario Rodriguez and Ramon Garcia Hirales and against Fuentes he's again in hard. Whilst Fuentes is best known for retiring Puerto Rican skillster Ivan Calderon he's actually a very credible fighter in his own right. Fuentes isn't the most skilled but is full of heart and is a freak for the lower weights, in fact against Calderon he looked 4 or 5 weights bigger than his opponent. This is a boxer v slugger fight and one that could be very fun to watch.

 

In what many feel is the co-main event unbeaten prospect Genesis Servania (18-0, 6) looks to score revenge for the Philippines over Indonesian Angy Angkotta (26-8-2, 14) in a bout for the WBO Asia Pacific super bantamweight title. What many may not realise is that the man to inflict the only loss on to Nietes record was Angkotta several years ago when the Indonesian failed to make weight and scored a very controversial decision over Nietes in Indonesia. Servania is viewed by many as one of the most exciting youngsters in the East and a victory here would cement him as a genuine threat to a world title.

 

Veteran Jimrex Jaca (36-6-3, 20) will look to extend his current 8 fight unbeaten run when he faces Thai journeyman Rachamongkol Sor Pleonchit (13-4, 5) who has been stopped in 3 of his previous 5.

 

The rest of the card is fill with prospects, the most noteworthy of those is Mark Vincent Bernaldez (8-0, 4) who faces Filipino Rolando Omela (5-7-3, 1), though it's also worth keeping an eye on unbeaten trio Ralph Jhon Lulu (6-0-2, 3) who beat Boyce Sultan, Juren Labordo (7-0, 3) a former amateur stand out and Rey Morales (6-0, 2)

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Defry Palulu claims Indonesian title!

 

Emerging fighter Defry Palulu (3-0, 3) scored not only his third successive stoppage victory by defeating the previously unbeaten Egy Rozten (1-1-1, 1) but also claimed his first title as he claimed the Indonesia Boxing Association Featherweight title. Although Indonesian boxing isn't hugely well respected in the West it's fair to say that the country is going through a good period, especially at Featherweight where Chris John (WBA "super Champion") is seen as the Linear champion in the division and Daud Cino Yordan (IBO champion) both hold titles.

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Iwasa marches on

 

Although Ryosuke Iwasa (14-1, 9) was expected to defeat Indonesian opponent Marjohn Yap (18-9-10) pretty easily he'll have been more than happy at the solid work out Yap managed to give him over 10 well fought rounds with Yap several on every card (with the cards reading 98-92 twice and 97-93, all for Iwasa). It's now expected that Iwasa will await the result of Shinsuke Yamanaka's upcoming bout with Malcolm Tunacao before deciding on his immediate future.

 

Ranked #8 by the WBC Iwasa would likely love a rematch with Yamanaka, the only man to have beaten the youngster though it'd likely be so much sweeter if Yamanaka gets past WBC #1 ranked challenger Tunacao in April and retains his title belt.

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Pungluang Sor Singyu dethroned

 

Thailand's Punglunag Sor Singyu (43-2, 28) was controversially beaten by Namibia's Paulus Ambunda (20-0, 10) as the Thai lost his WBO Bantamweight title in his first defense of the belt. Although the fight seems almost impossible to find at the moment, the score cards reflect that Sor Singyu was at the very least competitive through out losing by scores of 115-113 and 116-112 (twice) to the unbeaten Namibian who becomes just the 3rd world champion from his homeland following in the footsteps of Harry Simon and Paulus Moses.

 

At the moment Thailand really is in a dirge in terms of boxing with no current world title holders.

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Moises vs Ahas report

 

In the lower weights it's not rare for title fights to get overlooked. A great example of this was seen in the Philippines this past weekend when the often forgotten Filipino Donnie "Ahas" Nietes (31-1-4, 17) controversially defended his WBO Light Flyweight title against the very under-rated Mexican Moises Fuentes (16-1-1, 8).

 

The two men felt each other out for much of the opening round before Nietes exploded in the final minute to clearly seal the round in his favour. The late flurry by Nietes to end the opening round forced Fuentes to start the second round quicker and he set the tone of the with a bludgeoning body attack to the champion. Although many of Fuentes' attacks were a little wild he was able to score notable success up close to the body of his challenger.

 

The challenger continued with his body attacking through round 3 as the fight started to pick up the pace with Nietes firing back with some wonderful and accurate right hands. Although Fuentes appeared to have a notable reach advantage he rarely really used it to his advantage preferring to be up close to land his hooks to the midsection. Fuentes was forced to react the following round and started to use his movement a bit more to land his own shots, he wasn't completely neutralising the body attacks of Fuentes but he was starting to score more shots of his own whilst making Fuentes miss wildly at times.

 

Nietes really started to come in to his own in round five as he used his foot work to make Fuentes miss time and time again. It was in this round that Nietes first showed the class he is known for as he hurt Fuentes and really dominated the last 40 seconds with Fuentes forced on to the back foot and forced to cover up. After the break Fuentes seemed to recover and returned to his concentrated body attack which seemed to force Nietes to breath through his mouth. It was later on in round 6 that Nietes suffered 2 cuts (one from a legal punch and one from an accidental clash of heads).

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Unbeaten Yang to Make US debut

 

Unbeaten Chinese Lightweight Ik Yang (born Yang Lian Hui though also known as Yang YT) has compiled an excellent 11-0-0-1 (7) record fighting in both China (the land of his birth) and Korea (where he has been licing) though is now set to make his US debut as he travels to Memphis, Tennessee to face the experienced Tyrone Wiggins (9-25, 6).

 

A professional since 2007, the 27 year old Yang first caught the eye of boxing fans when he beat Elly Ray in 2012 to claim the stupidly named WBO China Zone Lightweight title on the undercard of Chauncey Welliver v Sherman Williams in Macao. In that performance Yang looked very entertaining before forcing an 8th round stoppage over his Indonesian opponent and arguably stole the show with his flashy skills.

 

Although significantly less experienced than Wiggins, who has faced Danny Garcia, John Murray and David Diaz amongst others, Yang will have 10 years of youth on his side and from the footage available of him his speed could well make Wiggins look even older than his 37 years.

 

Yang's fight with Ray can be seen here

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Sabillo claims Interim title

 

Unbeaten Filipino Merlito Sabillo (21-0, 11) proved to be a hit in Colombia despite stopping local fighter Luis De la Rosa (21-2-1, 12) last weekend in a bout for the WBO interim Minimumweight title in an all out war!

 

Although De La Rosa was cut in the opening round he fought back bravely as the two men took it in turns to land bombs on the other as both men gave it their all. Despite taking a number of hard shots earlier in the bout De La Rosa started to come apart in round 8 and was dropped twice before being stopped on his feet by the referee who had seen enough.

 

After the bout the crowd gave both men a huge round of applause as a thank you to a memorable bout and the local mayor also showed his class thanking Sabillo for the show as well as offering the town to be the venue of Sabillo's next bout if he was to face another world ranked Colombia (possibly fringe contender Gabriel Mendoza, former title challenger Karluis Diaz or Anuar Salas-if Salas gets past Concepcion next month).

 

 

Although the bout was only for the "interim" title, it's likely Sabillo will be upgraded soon with "full" champion Moises Fuentes struggling to make 105lbs and actually fighting at 108lbs last time out (where he drew with Donnie Nietes in a WBO title bout).

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