June 12, 2006
TOKYO, JAPAN
WBA#9/WBC#11 Munetsugu Kayoh (14-1, 8 KOs), 108, kept his OPBF 108-pound belt in fiasco as he scored a one-punch KO of ex-Thai national champ Fahkahnong Singhdongthai (8-6, 5 KOs), 108.5 (a half pound over the class limit), with a southpaw right hook at 1:14 of the second round on Monday in Tokyo, Japan.
Fahkahnong came to Japan some nine pounds over the limit, and reduced up to two pounds over it at his first trip to the scale. He struggled to almost make the weight just a half pound over, but refused to shed it more and drank water without more effort. The JBC contacted the OPBF president Frank Quill, who decided that the fight would go on under the condition that (1) should the champ Kayoh win, it would be registered as his title defense despite the challenger’s overweight, but (2) should Fahkahnong win, the OPBF belt would become vacant. When the incident happened at the weigh-in in Tokyo, Tsuyoshi Yasukochi, the JBC executive secretary, was in the midst of witnessing the Japanese national bantam elimination bout as the JBC supervisor in Osaka, so couldn’t move immediately. It was very rare that a challenger failed to make the weight in OPBF title bouts, but it actually took place and brought disgrace on the OPBF history.
Formerly world-rated minimum Junichiro Kaneda (13-3, 9 KOs), 106, kept carefully outlegging and outpunching Thai hard-puncher Yoddoi Sishse-I (6-3, 5 KOs), 106, and finally sank him with a wicked body shot for the count at 2:32 of the eighth round in a scheduled ten.
Promoter: Shirai Gushiken Promotions.
(6-12-06)
June 11, 2006
OKINAWA, JAPAN
Awkward but hard-hitting Ryu Miyagi (14-1-2, 12 KOs), 129.5, utilized his physical advantage and chalked up a TKO win over ex-WBA 122-pound champ Yoddamrong Sithyodthong (45-4-1, 20 KOs), 129, at 1:08 of the sixth round on Saturday in Okinawa, Japan. The Thailander wasn’t what he used to be, having dropped a unanimous decision to Shoji Kimura in a lousy bout this April and lost to Miyagi in succession in Japan. The WBA had better eliminate Yoddamrong out of the top fifteen, otherwise he may lose again here to produce another world contender from Japan.
Promoter: Okinawa World Ring Promotions.
(6-11-06)
June 10, 2006
OSAKA, JAPAN
Ex-Japanese super-fly champ Masaki Kawabata (24-7-2, 14 KOs), 118, dropped overmatched Shinji Kawahara (6-18-3, 5 KOs), 120.5, and finally halted him with a flurry of punches to cause the referee’s stoppage at 2:16 of the first round in a scheduled eight.
Promoter: Seiken Promotions.
(6-10-06)
June 9, 2006
YOKOHAMA, JAPAN
Rough and aggressive Yoshimasa Mochizuki (11-3-2, 5 KOs), 130, sent Yota Takenoshita (6-11-1, no KO), 130, sprawling to the deck in the first and second rounds, but had to cope with the latter’s desperate retaliation until Takenoshita finally decided to retire on the stool after the seventh on Friday in Yokohama, Japan. Mochizuki, once the national winner of the annual Novice King 4-round tournaments, was a bad example that deteriorated through his training abroad in California in 2003 and 2004, as he obviously lost his previous sharpness in punching and moving after his return.
Unbeaten prospect Satoshi Hosono (4-0, 3 KOs), 127, floored Daonua Soonkilanoynai, 128, Thailand, twice and polished him off at 2:24 of the first round in a scheduled eight.
Promoter: Ohashi Promotions.
Matchmaker: Joe Koizumi (as for the Hosono-Daonua bout).
(6-9-06)