The rising Atlanta star is ready to defend her championships in the land of the rising sun. Brian Norman Jr. It will become the second defense of its title in the WBO WBU in the Japanese pretender Jin Sasaki on Thursday, June 19, at OTA City General Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.
This is an almost 7000-kilometer trip for 24-year-old Norman-Oklyn world champion in boxing-who has not fought in foreign land since 2019. 23-year-old Sasaki, one of the fresh boxing artists, fought with them in addition to one of the 21 professional fights in Japan.
In the Cristian Araneta (25-2, 20 KO) and Thanongsak Simsri (38-1, 34 KO) factor, they will compete for the free title of Flyweight IBF Junior champion.
And at the 12-round heavyweight slope, the Japanese Wunderkind Sora Tanaka (3-0, 3 KO) will fight the veteran Southpaw Take Kobata (14-7-1, 6 KO) for a free OPBF title.
Norman-Sasaki, Araneta-Simsri and Tanaka-Kobata will be streaming live and only to ESPN+ in the USA
“Brian Norman Jr. is a motivated and talented master who did not hesitate when he offered this opportunity,” said Bob Arum, chairman of the highest degree. “Jin Sasaki has power and blows in the volume, and their styles will be a dramatic, full showdown action of the world title.”
“The king from the south comes to take over the world. I like how it sounds,” said Norman. “On June 19, I am ready for a star performance and write another triumphal chapter” The Norman Experience “.
Norman (27-0, 21 KO) fought 13 times in Mexico at the beginning of his career, including nine times before his 18th birthday. These experiences meant that the “killer” threw out a number of knockouts with the most significant relationships before he debuted in the highest rank at the beginning of 2023 after four fights without knockout, Norman was the author of great nervousness in May last year, stopping the family hero Giovani Santillan in 10 dramatic rounds in San Diego. The victory in Santillan won the transient WBO title to Norman, and he was raised to the full master after Terenka Crawford moved to medium scale juniors. After a successful hand surgery, Norman defended his belt on March 29 with TKO in the third round over Cuevas Puerto Rico.
Sasaki (19-1-1, 17 KO) has been undefeated in nine fights since the transition to a welterweight. In January 2023 he obtained the title of WBO Asia Pacific with the first round of Ryota Toyoshima and created five defense of this belt. During six fights with Nokaut from 2022 to 2024, Sasaki knocked out, among others, about the long -term Japanese master Keita Obar and Filipino spoiler Joe Noynay when he entered the WBO rankings. In January, for the first time he won the 12-round distance, winning the unanimous decision about Sakai’s show at Nayya Inoue-Ye Jeon Kim Undercard.