By Joe Koizumi
Photos by Naoki Fukuda
The weigh-in ceremony for tomorrow’s WBA/WBO world super flyweight unification bout between Kazuto Ioka (Japan) and Joshua Franco (US) took place on Friday in Tokyo, Japan. The results were as follows:
Ioka 115 lbs (the class limit)
Franco 114.75 (a quarter pound under the limit)
The officials are as follows:
Referee: Melva Santos (Puerto Rico)
Judges: Jose Roberto Torres (Puerto Rico), Ferlin Marsh (New Zealand) and Stanley Christodoulou (South Africa)
Supervisors: Jose Oliver Gomez (WBA from Panama) and Tsuyoshi Yasukochi (WBO, Japan).
By my count, this is Ioka’s 11th NYE fight, he’s currently 9-1 w/6ko’s. I think he gets his tenth win tomorrow, but Franco makes him work hard for it and could spring the upset if Ioka isn’t in great form.
Too small