WBO flyweight champ Kosei Tanaka defends title against Ryoichi Taguchi via unanimous decision
Kosei Tanaka defended his World Boxing Organization flyweight title Saturday with a victory over compatriot Ryoichi Taguchi by unanimous decision. All three judges scored the fight for Tanaka following a fierce ...
Former world champion Panamanian boxer Eusebio Pedroza, who defended the featherweight title more times than any other, has died at age 62. The World Boxing Association said Friday that Pedroza had ...
Masataka Taniguchi falls to Vic Saludar in WBO minimumweight title bid
Japanese challenger Masataka Taniguchi fell short in his bid for the World Boxing Organization minimumweight title on Tuesday, losing a unanimous decision to champion Vic Saludar of the Philippines. All three ...
Time 'rapidly' running out for boxing at Tokyo Games, official warns
Time is "rapidly" running out to organize an Olympic tournament in 2020, the executive director of the International Boxing Association said Tuesday amid disputes with the International Olympic Committee and a breakaway group of boxing officials. Tom Virgets told The Associated Press that boxers from ...
Masayuki Kuroda announced Monday he will take another shot at a world title when he challenges South Africa's Moruti Mthalane for the IBF flyweight belt on May 13 at Tokyo's Korakuen Hall. Kuroda, the fourth-ranked IBF flyweight contender, lost his bid to win the WBA ...
Naoya Inoue to challenge Emmanuel Rodriguez for IBF bantamweight title in May
Naoya Inoue will challenge Puerto Rico's Emmanuel Rodriguez for the IBF bantamweight title in the World Boxing Super Series semifinals on May 18 in Scotland, promoters announced Tuesday. In October, Inoue dropped Dominican Juan Carlos Payano 70 seconds into their bout at Yokohama Arena to ...
Takeshi Inoue loses world super welterweight title against Jaime Munguia
Takeshi Inoue lost a unanimous decision against undefeated Mexican champion Jaime Munguia in his challenge for the WBO super welterweight title on Saturday. The judges scored the fight for the 22-year-old Munguia 120-108, 120-108, 119-109. His win at the Toyota Center in Houston raised his ...
Ryohei Takahashi loses IBF super bantamweight title via 11th-round TKO
Ryohei Takahashi suffered a technical knockout in his first world title fight on Friday. The 28-year-old Takahashi was attempting to wrest the IBF super bantamweight title from Ireland's TJ Doheny, but he was stopped 2 minutes, 18 seconds into the 11th round at Madison Square ...
WBO flyweight champ Kosei Tanaka to make first title defense in March
Kosei Tanaka announced Thursday he will make the first defense of his WBO flyweight title on March 16 in Gifu against compatriot and former light flyweight title holder Ryoichi Taguchi. At 23 years and 3 months, Tanaka became the youngest of six Japanese boxers to ...
Nasukawa, Rizin reflect after Mayweather bout
Was it a one-night spectacle? Or was it a freak show? The exhibition match between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and young Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa ended up in a lopsided win by the American in Monday's year-end event by Japanese mixed martial arts promoter Rizin. "It's all ...
Floyd Mayweather dominates Tenshin Nasukawa in exhibition
Legendary former world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. tamed Japanese kickboxing phenom Tenshin Nasukawa via technical knockout on Monday. The special boxing exhibition, a dramatic conclusion to the Rizin 14 mixed martial arts event, took place before a New Year's Eve full house of 29,105 at ...
Kazuto Ioka's bid for fourth world title ends in split-decision defeat
Japan's Kazuto Ioka suffered his first loss in over four years on Monday when Donnie Nietes won a split decision to capture the vacant WBO super flyweight championship. The 29-year-old Ioka, aiming for his fourth world title, had trouble coping the powerful inside punching by ...
