Three-division belt winner Hozumi Hasegawa announced his retirement on Friday, bringing his decorated 17-year boxing career to an end with a 36-5 record, including 16 knockouts. The fleet-footed 35-year-old retires as WBC super bantamweight champion after he defeated Mexican Hugo Ruiz by technical knockout ...
Shinsuke Yamanaka and Hozumi Hasegawa each won his WBC world title fight by technical knockout on Friday. Yamanaka defended his bantamweight crown for the 11th time when he floored top-ranked challenger Anselmo Moreno of Panama in the seventh round of an entertaining battle of lefties ...
WBC bantamweight champion Shinsuke Yamanaka will take on Anselmo Moreno in a rematch, while former double champion Hozumi Hasegawa will attempt to recapture a world title against Hugo Ruiz in a WBC super bantamweight bout on September 16, at Edion Arena Osaka, the organizers ...
Etsuko Tada defeated Mexican Kareli Lopez by unanimous decision on Friday in a IBF women's world mini flyweight title bout, taking her first world title in more than two and a half years. The 34-year-old Tada, who became the WBA minimumweight champion in April 2009 ...
Challenger Hozumi Hasegawa missed out on becoming only the second Japanese boxer after Koki Kameda to win world titles in three different divisions on Wednesday, when he was beaten by IBF super bantamweight champion Kiko Martinez of Spain. The 33-year-old Hasegawa lost by technical knockout ...
Shinsuke Yamanaka, the WBC bantamweight champ, and Hozumi Hasegawa, a former world champion in two different weight classes, will each fight in a world title doubleheader on April 23, it was announced Tuesday. Yamanaka will be making his sixth title defense, while Hasegawa is seeking ...
