By Joe Koizumi
Photo by Boxing Beat
Unbeaten WBO flyweight champion Kosei Tanaka (15-0, 9 KOs), still 24, has announced on Tuesday that he outgrew the 112-pound category and renounced his third WBO belt—in his native Nagoya, Japan.
Tanaka’s near-future target will be four-division champ and defense master Kazuto Ioka, the current WBO junior bantamweight titleholder, most probably at the end of this year.
I had heard there was a WBA unification in the works with Artem Dalakian. Shame that would have been a great fight.
Traditionally on December 31 :))