Junto Nakatani made a ruthlessly environment friendly defence of the WBC bantamweight world title on Saturday, stopping challenger Vincent Astrolabio inside the primary spherical.
Japan’s Nakatani lived as much as his popularity as one in every of world boxing’s most fearsome knockout artists on the Kokugikan Area in Tokyo.
He stepped ahead and landed a ferocious cross direct to the physique. A shot that was each actually and metaphorically breath-taking because it hit Astrolabio on the belt line however within the goal space.
The pressure of the shot snuffed out Astrolabio’s problem instantly. It despatched him reeling away throughout the ring, the place he collapsed to the canvas.
He couldn’t regroup from that one-punch end, and declined to proceed.
“I thought maybe this was going to be a long fight but luckily I got the punch and I am victorious,” Nakatani mentioned.
He then requested the group: “Do you want me to unify the titles? I’m thinking about unifying the titles in the bantamweight division or I’m thinking about going up weight divisions, let’s see.”
The WBA bantamweight titlist, Takuma Inoue, is on his hitlist. “I think loads of people are expecting this fight. I’ll be stronger, I’ll get ready,” he mentioned.
Takuma’s brother, Naoya ‘The Monster’ Inoue, is lurking only one division above Nakatani at super-bantamweight the place he’s the undisputed world champion.
“I will take one step at a time but I know in one of the weight divisions there’s the ‘Monster’ waiting. So let’s see what happens,” Nakatani mentioned.
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An enormous knockout from Anthony Olascuaga upsets Riku Kano as he wins the WBO flyweight world title with a third-round victory
On the undercard, Anthony Olascuaga, Nakatani’s gym-mate, upset Riku Kano with an enormous knockout of his personal within the third spherical to win the WBO flyweight world title.
Olascuaga appeared harmful early on however, simply as the competition was starting to calm down, the American launched himself ahead, angling up a left hook as Kano ducked down.
The fierce shot caught Kano cleanly and dropped him closely to the canvas.
The house fighter couldn’t beat the depend and Olascuaga claimed the vacant championship.
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Issei Aramoto wins in type, with a sixth-round KO of Mongontsooj Nandinerdene
Tenshin Nasukawa, a kickboxing famous person in Japan, continued his skilled boxing profession with a three-round win towards Jonathan Rodriguez
He badly shocked Rodriguez with backhand left on the finish of the second spherical and fired in a volley of unanswered punches after that.
Nasukawa continued to land vicious lefts within the third spherical and blasted Rodriguez off his toes, ending their scheduled 10 rounder within the third.
Making his professional debut, Japanese middleweight Issei Aramoto additionally received by knockout, ultimately hacking down Mongontsooj Nandinerdene with a left hook to the chin of their sixth and closing spherical.
