By Joe Koizumi
Japanese southpaw Reiya Abe will make an ambitious crack at the IBF featherweight belt against Luis Alberto Lopez tomorrow (Saturday) in Venona, New York. Should he be successful, Abe will be the 100th world champion ever produced out of Japan since the very first Yoshio Shirai in 1952. Shirai wrested the world flyweight championship by dethroning Dado Marino by a fifteen-round unanimous decision at Korakuen Baseball Stadium in Tokyo, Japan—some seventy-two years ago. Good luck, Abe.
He has a great chance but needs to be extremely focused…
Hell yeah, he’ll be! This japs have taken over the smaller weight division! Soon there will be no belts left cause they’re all will be in japan!!!!!!!