TOKYO--Korakuen Hall--Lefty YUTAKA MANABE(right photo), 122, hit the deck in the 3rd,
but kept peppering JUN TORIUMI, 122, en route to the referee's
intervention at 1:56 of the 7th round in a scheduled 10.
Oct. 12
TOKYO--Korakuen Hall--Lefty YUTAKA MANABE(right photo), 122, hit the deck in the 3rd,
but kept peppering JUN TORIUMI, 122, en route to the referee's
intervention at 1:56 of the 7th round in a scheduled 10.
It's an encounter of lefties. Manabe registered his 2nd defense since he captured the national throne on a 10th round TKO of Kyoshiro Fukushima last Dec. Manabe, stiff but game, was floored by Toriumi's southpaw jab in the 3rd. But he turned aggressive from the 4th on and pummeled him into submission.
Manabe, formerly a stock dealer, is 21-6-1, 13 KOs. The loser fell to 7-1-1, only one KO.
In a supporting 10, a come-from-behind KO sent a loser to hospital due to his brain hemorrhage. Unranked but durable KEN KATAGIRI, 122, kept whipping a highly regarded hard-puncher, JBC #9 ranked super bantam FUSAAKI TAKENAGA, 121 1/2, and was about to produce an upset before Takenaga caught him with a solid right hook to floor him and dropped him again at 2:18 of the 9th, when the referee immeditely declared a halt.
Katagiri didn't look to have suffered such a big damage, though carried out of the ring on a stretcher. But he sustained a brain hemorrage and received an operation at Nihon University Surugadai Hospital.
Lately we have seen many fights stopped earlier than previously in order to save heavy damage of boxers and avoid ring tragedies. In this fight, the third man's stoppage didn't look so late, but an accident happened. We have to look for a more perfect medical control as well as a control of boxing bouts.
Takenaga, who failed to win the OPBF super bantam title on a TKO by Reynante Jamili in 1996, raised his mark to 20-5, 19 KOs. Katagiri is 5-6-2.