March 24, 2011
TOKYO, JAPAN
Akihiko Honda, the promoter of Teiken Promotions, Inc., has definitely announced today (Thursday) that the world title tripleheader on April 8 is on as scheduled, but will move from the originally slated fight place of Tokyo to Kobe city on the same date.
He says that it is a good decision to shift the venue to the World Memorial Hall of the southern port city Kobe, some 500 kilometer (310 miles) west to the capital Tokyo, under current circumstances with partly limited electricity and other problems inside the Metropolitan area.
The deluxe show consists of the three WBC world title bouts, as follows: WBC feather title bout between Hozumi Hasegawa (29-3, 12 KOs) and Jhonny Gonzalez of Mexico (47-7, 41 KOs); WBC super-bantam title go of Toshiaki Nishioka (37-4-3, 23 KOs) and Mauricio Munoz of Argentina (21-2, 9 KOs); WBC super-feather title bout of Takahiro Aoh (20-2-1, 9 KOs) and Humberto Gutierrez of Mexico (28-2-1, 20 KOs).
Therefore, foreign boxing people including the WBC officials will arrive at Osaka/Kansai airport, about an hour by car to Kobe city, without coming to Tokyo. More information will follow on this subject.
(3-24-11)