Junto Nakatani retained his WBC bantamweight world title with a brutal knockout victory over Petch Sor Chitpattana.
The 26-year-old star thrilled his house crowd in Tokyo by enhancing his skilled file to 29-0, with a twenty second win by knockout.
Chitpattana was crushed for simply the second time in 78 skilled bouts, with Japanese star Takuma Inoue the one different fighter to have defeated him, in 2018.
Nakatani confirmed why he’s being touted because the inheritor to the good Inoue, and one-upped the super-bantamweight world champion by handing Chitpattana his first defeat by knockout.
The entertaining encounter ebbed and flowed till an enormous left-hand counter from Nakatani halfway by means of the eighth spherical swung the combat in his favour.
The Japanese fighter adopted up the beautiful shot with a mix that despatched Chitpattana to the canvas, earlier than the Thai narrowly beat the referee’s depend to increase the competition.
Chitpattana someway managed to fireplace again within the ensuing moments however was caught by one other large left-hand from Nakatani just some seconds earlier than the bell, prompting the referee to wave off the combat.
“This is my third knockout victory in [three world bantamweight] title fights,” Nakatani stated. “I hope people are happy about it.
“I knew my opponent is sort of aggressive, so I slowed down and watched him coming into me.”
Nakatani remains one of four current Japanese bantamweight world champions, with Seiya Tsutsumi (WBA), Ryosuke Nishida (IBF) and Yoshiki Takei (WBO) holding the division’s other belts.
“Anybody who has a championship belt, I’d welcome the combat,” Nakatani added.
Nasukawa claims first professional title
Tenshin Nasukawa claimed the primary title of his skilled profession with a dominant factors victory over Gerwin Asilo.
The Japanese fighter was a transparent winner on the scorecards of all three judges, incomes him the WBO Asia Pacific bantamweight title.
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Tenshin Nasukawa demonstrated his distinctive warm-up forward of his combat with Gerwin Asilo in Tokyo
Nasukawa’s triumph comes 4 years on from his exhibition contest with Floyd Mayweather, during which he was stopped inside a spherical by the boxing nice.
“I successfully got this championship belt around my waist and thanks to my opponent for fighting me tonight,” he stated.
Nasukawa’s skilled file is now 5-0 with two knockout wins, whereas Filipino fighter Asilo was crushed for the primary time in his 10-fight skilled profession.
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