## WBC 118LB CHAMP YAMANAKA TO DEFEND AGAINST MORENO

July 11, 2015

TOKYO, JAPAN

Teiken Promotions announced WBC bantamweight titlist Shinsuke Yamanakafs next defense against former WBA super champ Anselmo Moreno (35-3-1, 12 KOs), Panama, in Tokyo on September 22. It will be a sensational confrontation of the experienced southpaws of the hard-punching Japanese and the elusive and skillful Panamanian. Yamanaka (23-0-2, 17 KOs), 32, will try to make his ninth defense since he acquired the vacant belt by stopping Mexican Christian Esquivel in the eleventh session in November 2011. The lefty champ, since then, defeated Vic Darchinyan (W12), Tomas Rojas (KO7), Malcolm Tunacao (TKO12), Jose Nieves (KO1), Alberto Guevara (KO9), Stephane Jamoye (TKO9), Suriyan Sor Rungvisai (W12) and Diego Santillan (KO7). Having scored six wins within the distance in his eight successful defenses, Yamanaka was lately ranked ninth in the pound-for-pound ratings of The Ring Magazine to his credit.

Moreno, nicknamed gChemito (Ghost due to his elusiveness)h, captured the WBA bantam throne by dethroning veteran champ Volodymyr Sydorenko on points in Germany in May 2008, and kept it twelve times to demonstrate his technical excellence. Though the Panamanian, 30, forfeited his WBA super belt on a controversial technical decision to Juan Carlos Payano in Mesquite, Texas, last September, Moreno is still at his prime so that he is duly expected to be a threat to the long-reigning WBC champ Yamanaka.

Yamanaka said, gMoreno will be the most difficult out of all challengers against me. Ifd like to concentrate on a successful defense rather than on a knockout victory since Moreno must be such a tough opponent.h The competitive contest will take place at the Ota Ward General Gymnasium in Tokyo.

(7-11-2015)

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