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By Joe Koizumi Photos by Naoki Fukuda If both are brittle-chinned hard-punchers, it will become such a fight like this. The tide busily turning almost in

...Wins WBO AP 108lb belt By Joe Koizumi Unheralded Filipino puncher Jason Vayson (11-1-1-1NC, 6 KOs), 108, surprisingly captured the WBO Asia Pacific

Kazuto Ioka’s negotiations with Juan Francisco Estrada collapsed over "El Gallo’s" purse demands

By Joe Koizumi JBC#1 Yuna Hara (13-2-1, 7 KOs), 130, upset Japanese super feather champ Kosuke Saka (22-7, 19 KOs), 130, to win the national belt by an

Photo by Mikey Williams/Top Rank Inc via Getty Images The six fight roster: Reigning WBA “super” light flyweight champion Hiroto Kyoguchi (14-0, 9 KO) faces retired three-division champion Akira Yaegashi (28-7, 16 KO). Yaegashi is a slugger to the core, but since Kyoguchi has a title defense against Axel Aragon Vega scheduled for March, I doubt they’ll have a proper throwdown. Former longtime super featherweight king Takashi “KO Dynamite” Uchiyama (24-2-1, 20 KO) meets 28-year-old Jap...

Feb 3, 2021 Naoya Inoue, Takashi Uchiyama and other current and former boxing stars will come together at Yoyogi National Gymnasium on Feb. 11 for an unprecedented charity fight card to show appreciation for the medical professionals who have been working hard during the COVID-19 pandemic. The event has been named “Legend.” In addition to the professional fighters, a couple of amateurs who have already secured berths for the Tokyo Olympics will also participate. Organizers revealed...