World Boxing Information gives reside outcomes from Ariake Area in Japan as Naoya Inoue defends his undisputed title in opposition to TJ Doheny.
Inoue vs Doheny Dwell Outcomes
Within the headliner, Naoya Inoue earned a TKO over TJ Doheny after the challenger suffered an harm and couldn’t proceed.
Doheny was already outclassed and on his strategy to defeat when the Irishman bowed out 16 seconds into the seventh spherical. Inoue strikes to 28-0 with a twenty fifth stoppage as Doheny appeared to have a again harm coupled with sure ache from sickening physique pictures.
Inoue cements his place because the pound-for-pound quantity three fighter on the planet behind Terence Crawford and Oleksandr Usyk.
Yoshiki Takei efficiently defended his WBO bantamweight title in opposition to former world titleholder Daigo Higa. The pair engaged in a conflict during the content material, not desirous to take a backward step for the total twelve rounds. After a phonebox encounter, Takei took the choice following a powerful last spherical after being dropped within the earlier seIn
On the conclusion, choose Edward Ligas carded 115-112 for the champion. Moreover, Masakazu Murase and Danrex Tapdasan each noticed it 114-113 for Takei.
CompuBox mentioned, “Higa gave the champion all he might deal with in his first title protection. Although Takei landed 40 extra energy punches, Higa related on 47% of his energy punches, slowly grinding Takei down because the struggle wore on.
“Higa scored the struggle’s lone knockdown within the eleventh spherical, although replays point out {that a} punch might need landed whereas Takei slipped on the ring brand. Takei obtained up and tried to win the remainder of the spherical.
“That carried over into the twelfth spherical, the place Takei threw 75 punches and landed 26 energy punches- each struggle highs. Decreased to making an attempt to outlive Takei’s onslaught, Higa solely threw 13 punches and landed 5 within the last spherical.”
Ismael Barroso suffered the fifth defeat of his profession with a ninth-round stoppage in opposition to the unbeaten Andy Hiraoka. Barroso hit the canvas after a barrage with solely seconds remaining within the spherical. After the Venezuelan was too sluggish attending to his ft, referee Chris Younger known as a halt at 2:58 of the ninth.
Hiraoka is now 24-0 following a nineteenth stoppage as Barroso falls to 25-5-2.
As welterweight Jin Sasaki recorded his seventeenth knockout from 18 wins by ending his conflict with Qamil Balla inside a minute of the seventh spherical. The 23-year-old is now on a six-fight KO streak after struggling a primary loss and drawing a six-rounder both aspect of yet one more stoppage.
A world title shot isn’t far-off for the hard-hitting 147-pounder.
Toshiki Shimomachi gained a unanimous ten-round choice over Ryuya Tsugawa because the southpaw retained the Japanese bantamweight title. Scores learn 97-92 and 96-93 twice because the 27-year-old moved to 19-1-3. Tsugawa drops to 13-2 after his second skilled loss.
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