Japanese Hopes vol.2

2006.12.16
Akira Matsuo vs Kento Shimazu

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• boxing
• hope

[justinuts]

What you say holds no truth. Don't bring this race vs race crap. Judge a boxer by their skill not where they come from or their race. What about Gerry Penalosa, he lost twice to Masamori Tokuyama who has only 8ko's in 36 fights? Filipino boxers get lots of chances. Anyway, Japan has had more champions than the Philipines and even Filipino boxers with winning records. Japanese boxers usually don't travel, cuz their promoter and they would get paid more in Japan than any other country.

[SalvyMic]

There's like four right now, all at the small weights. Yutaka Niida (105), Daisuke Naito (112), Takefumi Sakata (112), and Hozumi Hasegawa (118). As many champions as there are from Puerto Rico and the Philippines, and more than Thailand, Russia, Germany, Venezuela, and Argentina.

[SalvyMic]

Actually, Hasegawa right now is exclusively fighting foreigners to defend his belt, Niida routinely defends his belt against Thais and Filipinos, and Naito just defended his title against the previous long-reigning Thai champion, who he had dethroned. Ironically, the best fight that could happen at 112 is between Naito and Sakata, but they haven't made the fight happen yet. The issue that people will have, though, is that Japanese fighters don't travel.

[bitchbastardson]

yes but these champions will only fight japanese boxers so that the championship belt would remain in japan. they will never fight boxers from outside their country.

[brucelee122fx]

Funny how there aren't many Japanese World Champs.