Inoue And Yaegashi Retain World Titles In Tokyo
Both WBO junior bantamweight champ Naoya Inoue and IBF junior flyweight titleholder Akira Yaegashi retained their titles in Tokyo, Japan on Sunday.
Unbeaten Inoue (10-0, 8 KOs), who was making his second defense decked David Carmona (17-2-4, 6 KOs), from Mexico, in the 12th round before gaining a unanimous decision win by scores of 118-109 twice and 116-111.
On the same card Three-time world champ Akira Yaegashi (24-5, 12 KOs), was made to battle thoughout the 12 rounds against Mexican Martin Tecuapetla (23-5, 15 KOs), before nicking a split decision. Two judges made the champ the 116-113 and 115-113,whil the third official saw Tecuapetla the victor by a score of 113-115).
Other results
OPBF Super Flyweight title Takuma Inoue w tko 2 Afrizal Tamboresi
Super Bantamweight Victor Uriel Lopez w tko 5 Ryo Matsumoto
Welterweight Koki Inoue w tko 1 TBA
Super Lightweight Quaye Peter w tko 1 Vincent Olin
Featherweight Toru Kiyota w tko 3 Kanehiro Nakagawa
Be sure to "LIKE" the SecondsOut Facebook page.
May 8, 2016
Latest
SecondsOut Weekly Newsletter
Permission Statement
If you accept, we will process your data to fulfil this purpose.
