Having recently renounced his WBO flyweight belt, unbeaten Junto Nakatani (24-0, 18 KOs) took a ten round unanimous decision over ex-minimumweight ruler Francisco Rodriguez (36-6-1, 25 KOs) in his first super-fly bout.
Unbeaten WBO Asia Pacific lightweight titlist Shuichiro Yoshino (16-0, 12 KOs) retained his regional belt against elongated ex-OPBF ruler Masayoshi Nakatani (20-3, 14 KOs) via sixth round KO. Nakatani down in rounds five and six
Nakatani was the former champion at the lower weight class, so he’ll either be ranked #1 or #2. Than means that Tanaka will take the other ranking and Ioka just made a mandatory against Nietes…. Nakatani – Tanaka is an awesome fight and I think if they put in Nakatani with Ioka in the next fight (presuming Ioka beats Franco), he struggles. He needs some time to grow into the division and this was a good first step.
Yoshino might be the goods, in his last fight he dominated and retired a former world champion and now he stops Nakatani. Hopefully someone now brings him over to this side of the globe.