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Watanabe caught him with a wicked right to the face, and floored the Filipino to the deck. Jaspe amazed the crowd by beating the count. Watanabe kept his cool and landed a sweeping left hook to the rubbery-leged Jaspe to collaspe him for the count.
Watanabe, whose jaw was broken by Wilfredo Vazquez in a bit for the WBA feather title in Mar. of the previous year, celebrated his 2nd comeback go, following a 4th round KO of Korean Changjong Kim last Aug.
Watanabe bettered his ledger to 21-3, 20 KOs. Jaspe reportedly fell to 7-7, 3 KOs.
YASUKI MATSUDA, 122, decked a fine TKO win over Filipino ALAN BUTLIG,
121, at 1:27 of the 6th in a scheduled 8. Matsuda is 7-3, 5 KOs.
Butlig reportedly dipped to 10-11, 2 KOs.
Promoter: Saida Promotions.
(10-30-98)
Oct. 27, 1998
OSAKA--Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium--Unbeaten prospect EIICHI SUGAMA, 125
1/4, amazinginly suffered his first setback, as he lost a close but
unanimous decision to veteran lefty HIROAKI FUKUMOTO, 125 1/2, over 10.
Sugama had him at bay in the 2nd, and domianted the first 3 rounds. But Fukumoto fought back hard to have the tide turn, and dropped him with a southpaw left hook in the 7th.
Sugama desperately attacked the lefty and had him groggy in the last session, which wasn't enough to overcome the early points deficits. JBC #9 ranked feather Sugama fell to 11-1, 9 KOs. Fukumoto, JBC #9 super bantam, raised his mark to 20-13-2, 16 KOs. Fukumoto might be a hard stepping stone for newcomers.
MASAMORI TOKUYAMA, 111 1/2, was awarded a TKO victory over KATSUHIKO
YOSHIUMI, 111 1/2, at the end of the 4th due to the latter's worsened
cut on the right optic in a scheduled 8. Tokuyama, 15-2-1, 3 KOs, is
slated to meet ex-WBA light fly champ Hiroki Ioka here in Dec.
Yoshimumi dipped to 13-9-2, 1 KO.
(10-27-98)