By Joe Koizumi
Photoｓ by Naoki Fukuda
Pitifully the WBA super flyweight title bout of Fernando Martinez and Kazuto Ioka on New Year’s Eve has been cancelled because the defending champ caught a flu to be unable to fight as scheduled. Kazuki Yoshino, the promoter of Shisei Promotions, has announced this unexpected cancellation before the press people. Reportedly having a fever, Martinez didn’t appear the scheduled public workout on Thursday and also cancelled his appearance at the press conference with Ioka yesterday (Sunday).
The crestfallen Ioka said, “I feel very sorry not to be able to fight Martinez, and wish to fight for the world championship either with him or with another organization’s champion.”
It is true anything can happen in boxing.
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Damn. I was really looking forward to this one. Maybe Bam would still be interested in Ioka? He did retire his brother.
“Pitifully the WBA super flyweight title bout of Fernando Martinez and Kazuto Ioka on New Year’s Eve has been cancelled….”
– Why is it “pitifully”?
– Maybe “unfortunate”, but certain not a pity………..
“Pitiful” & “pitifully” are just favorite words of Joe’s, Gary. I think he uses it most often it meaning disappointing/disappointingly.
Ioka’s fights at New Years have spiced up the holidays for a number of years now but now it’s hard to say now how much longer the tradition will last. C’est la vie.
You guys been having problems posting on fightnews over the last couple days?
When the site is up, I can post just fine. It has been down pretty often in the last couple of days though if that’s what you mean
Yeah, I was just checking because I wasn’t even able to see it. Appreciate it, Lucie!
The site puts you on a suspension period if you have consecutive posts of utter bs.
Dont take this second chance for granted.