## SUGITA TWINS' BAD NIGHT

January 29, 2008

TOKYO, JAPAN

In Asia, there were such successful examples of twin-boxers as Khaosai/Khaokor Galaxy and Chana/Songkram Porpaoin, all of whom brilliantly seized world championships. In Japan, we now see Sugita fraternal twins, both of whom are highly expected prospects, but the more talented younger brother suffered an amazingly upset defeat tonight (Tuesday) in Tokyo, Japan.

Japanfs #5 super-bantam Yujiro Sugita (13-2, 6 KOs), 122.75, decked unheralded and unranked trial horse Masaki Serie (10-3, 4 KOs), with a devastating left hook in the first round, but it became such a give-and-take brawl that Serie finally battered Sugita with unanswered combinations with the refereefs intervention at 2:10 of the tenth and final session.

No one would have imagined Sugitafs defeat, but it actually happened to greatly stun the spectators. The sturdy and hard-hitting Israel Vazquez stylist, Sugita, almost had the crowd sense that it was a matter of time, when he badly floored the underdog in the first. Sugita maintained his aggressiveness in the first four, but Seriefs retaliation from the fifth on was so effective that he mixed it up furiously and battered Sugita from all angles in the close quarter. Both eyes grotesquely swollen, Sugita, in round ten, tried to swap punches only to be a human dummy for Seriefs desperate combos. The judges had evaluated the upset victor Seriefs combination with 87-84 twice and 88-84, all in his favor, prior to the trick happening.

### Undercard:

Japanese #5 super-fly Junichiro Sugita (13-1, 7), 115, the elder twin brother of Yujiro, displayed a perfect one-punch knockout of pugnacious Thailander Deeden Sithsaithong (7-10, 4 KOs), 114.25, at 2:58 of the opening canto in a scheduled ten. Junichiro, after a nine-month hiatus due to his right hand fracture, would have never expected his brotherfs shocking defeat.

Ryota Kobayashi (1-1, no KO), 127, knocked out referee Hideo Date with a vicious right hook at 0:55 in the first round, another ref Akihiko Katsuragi promptly replaced the still dizzy Date thereafter, and Kobayashi kept swinging roundhouse blows to pound out a unanimous nod (39-36 twice and 40-37) over Mitsuyasu Tezaki (0-4, no KO), 127.5, over four.

PromoterFYonekura Promotions.

(1-29-08)

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