May 03, 2006
TOKYO, JAPAN-OPBF flyweight champ Noriyuki Komatsu (21-2-5, 9 KOs), Japan, will face Japanese national champ Daisuke Naito (28-2-2, 19 KOs) with both belts at stake at the Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, on June 27. Each previously failed to win the WBC 112-pound belt from lefty Thailander Pongsaklek Wongjongkam Kratindaeng-gym, who dispatched Naito in just 34 seconds in Thailand and defeated him by a technical nod in the seventh in Tokyo, and also demolished Komatsu with a flurry of punches in the fifth session in Osaka. Pongsaklek, who lately registered as many fourteen defenses as Mexican Miguel Canto, proved too much for both Komatsu and Naito, who will fight for survival in a quest for a shot at the world belt again.
(5-3-06)