
More Sports / Boxing Mar 2, 2017
Yamanaka defends bantamweight title for 12th time, moves within win of matching Gushiken record
by Kaz Nagatsuka
As everyone had predicted, Carlos Carlson was no match for "God's Left." Shinsuke Yamanaka mauled the Mexican challenger and retained his WBC bantamweight title with a seventh-round technical knockout victory at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on Thursday night. Yamanaka (27-0-2, 19 KOs) defended his title for the ...