## JAPAN UPDATE

June 9, 2011

TOKYO, JAPAN

WBA super-feather champ, unbeaten Japanese Takashi Uchiyama made a debut as guest professor of his alma mater Takushoku University on June 1. The champ made an excellent lecture on a subject gTo seize a chanceh according to his own experience before three hundred students for an hour at the auditorium. Uchiyama did it so well that people say he would really become a professor after hanging up gloves for good in the future. He said, gitfs good for mental training to speak in front of a big audience. That may do me good in the ring.h

OPBF female super-fly champ Naoko Yamaguchi (17-3-3, 15 KOs), 114.75, impressively kept her regional belt as she battered game Thailander Reantong Rongrearnkilalorat (7-4-2, no KO), 115, from all angles and finally halted her at 0:30 of the fifth round this Monday (June 6) in Tokyo, Japan. Prior to the main event there was a ceremony to celebrate ex-WBC female minimum champ Naoko Kikuchifs farewell to the ring. It was a 55-year-old ex-WBA junior fly champ, her manager Yoko Gushiken, that engaged in a two-round exhibition with Kikuchi. Amazingly could Gushiken (23-1, 15 KOs) move very well with his well-educated good balance and sharply punched southpaw jabs to handle Kikuchi. Champ, however, donft attempt to make a comeback to break Bernard Hopkinsf record to win a world belt at the age of forty-six.

(6-9-11)

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