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Tokyo results: Norman flattens Sasaki, Simsri lifts the free belt and more
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10 months agoon
Thanongsak Simsri def. Christian Araneta
The start of the television part of the card from Japan is Thanongsak Simsri, adopting the Philippine pretender Cristian with the arrangement of the free title of IBF Delicate Flyight. Thai Simsri has already made several trips to Japan, making a lot of success on the road, except for a knockout loss with a two -time world champion Masamuchi Yabuki.
For her part, Aranets fought twice in the eliminators of the world title, although he failed in these attempts. Despite the fact that he is smaller of them, Simsri has set his reach from the very beginning, exceeding the arrangement in the early rounds. The Philippine found his moment to take advantage of Simsri’s confidence; However, at the end of the third round, the massive meter left from Arane to sleep Thai.
Araneta ended a mighty mighty, pinning Simsri with ropes and landing a few immaculate blows. Now that Simsri was dropped and both men wore a deep cut, the fight fell into a specific rhythm.
The Aranet was physically overlapped as a larger man, collecting his arrows and landing strongly on Southpaw on Simsri. But for most of the majority of Simsri rounds, a much larger volume landed, limiting the angle on the arrangement and remained outside.
The results cards reflected the competitive nature of the fight, because Simsri simply made a divided decision to become the world champion and achieve the greatest victory in his career. For ARANET it must be a very frustrating result; Now he lost to the best fighters in his CV, and this result could be avoided if he could only find a slightly larger pace.
Reiya ABE def. Yuya eye
Then on the card there was a classic Veterans match versus perspectives for the Japanese featherweight title, seeing that the very experienced Southpaw Reiya Abe equalized with the invincible perspective of Yuya Oko.
Abe showed exceptional leg work from the very beginning, sliding into the nest in Wola, usually avoiding any eye meter. The eye found a few more readings when the fight was worn, sometimes it is time to precipitate the movement of the veteran’s head, but the pressure of the eye was largely discouraged by the skillful movement of Abe and prickly LEM.
His work indicator remained consistent in both movement and combinations. He made every effort to make him in battle, but until the end of ten rounds he was clearly done.
It was a really impressive, veteran Abe performance, which continued the return trail after the brutal knockout to Luis Alberto Lopez in 2024. As for Yuya Oko, it was a great struggle for learning at the beginning of your career. He has improved extremely as the fight and I am sure that it will be better at the Japanese national level.
Sora Tanaka def. Kobata tacky
During the Coan-Maan event, the Japanese Amateur Champion Sora Tanaka continued her campaign in professional ranks against Kobat’s domestic talents. Tanaka is an omnipotence warrior in full violence, marching down the enemy and throwing power shots without concern for defense.
Despite the fact that he is a shorter boxer, Tanaka had a woman on the ropes from the very beginning. Every shot of power that landed shook the cobat to his core, but Kobata had no problem finding a chance to break Tanak’s perspective.
The fight lasted only four rounds, but to be forthright, Kobata was doing well to survive as long as he consumed a crazy amount of damage during the competition. There was almost no uninteresting moment because they both stood in their pockets and replaced Bell with Bell.
When the downtime came, it was a bit disappointing when Kobata remained on his feet and just shook Tanaka, but the fight was a pure action and one of my favorite year. I don’t know how far Tanaka moves in the ranks in his versatile style, but I will be there to see every step.
Brian Norman Jr. def. Jin Sasaki
Finally, in the main event, another Japanese offensive Dynamo in Jin Sasaki challenged the extremely qualified Brian Norman Jr. for his title of welterweight WBO. Norman clearly stated that there was a gap between them almost immediately, abandoning his family hero twice in the first round.
Sasaki hardly refrained and forced Norman, but his characteristic power had a very little impact on the master. Sasaki was still doing very well to force his fight, remaining in Norman’s face, even though he constantly breaks the injuries.
Many would wither, but Sasaki never did it. Norman remained consistently great during the fight, he never became seemingly shocked and jumping on the possibilities of landing every time Sasaki presented them.
Everything crashed for the pretender in the fifth round. When Sasaki withdrew after a stab to the body, Norman landed with a immaculate left hook, throwing the cool Japanese warrior in the immediate cups of the year. It was a definite second defense of his title for the youthful master in Norman.
The scenes were very dead about Sasaki, which had to be stretched. He showed a huge combat spirit, but his corner should probably have had to draw him with the amount of injuries that Norman caused him. Regardless, this fight was an amazing Kapsta on a very comical card in the middle of the week.
Last updated on 19.06.2025
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Dan Ambrose is a boxing journalist at Boxing News 24, respected for his direct analysis and extensive coverage of the global fight landscape. His reports focus on the most crucial fights, division development and the most discussed stories in sports.
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Eddie Hearn expects Mayweather vs Pacquiao 2 fight to be canceled and replaced with world title fight
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2 hours agoon
April 28, 2026
The final decision may come after the Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao rematch drama ends.
Earlier this year, it was announced that Mayweather and Pacquiao were set to fight professionally more than 10 years after their first meeting, with the event streaming live on Netflix and taking place on September 19 at The Sphere in Las Vegas.
In recent weeks the duel was in doubt, after Mayweather stated that the fight would instead be an exhibition, while Pacquiao continues to insist that it must be a fully sanctioned fight.
Since it is currently unknown whether this will actually come to fruition, this has probably given the clearest signal that this will no longer happen.
Conversation with FightHypepromoter Eddie Hearn said he thinks Netflix can now focus on the WBC welterweight title fight between Ryan Garcia and Conor Benn, essentially replacing the Mayweather-Pacquiao event.
“It’s all a mess. I’m surprised Netflix got into this whole circus… Netflix is modern to boxing, but they need to be a little more solid in the routine because you can’t actually call the fight and it just falls by the wayside and it just doesn’t look great.”
“NO [I don’t believe it will happen]not now. Netflix is only going to do so many fights and the Benn-Garcia fight is now said to be on September 12 or whenever that happens, so obviously this is the fight to replace Mayweather-Pacquiao.
“If it happened Mayweather-Pacquiao, they are committed to that fight, but if it doesn’t happen they will want another fight and from the sound of it it will be Garcia vs. Benn.”
The world title fight between Garcia and Benn has been widely discussed this month, and if Hearn is right, it could spell the end of any hopes of Mayweather and Pacquiao fighting again.
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Most of Inoue’s opponents end up with confined time as they have to rush to hit him. Nakatani can theoretically sit outside and throw a punch without putting his chin in the red zone.
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In his December victory over Sebastian Hernandez, Nakatani was forced into a fierce fight in which both men landed heavily, taking 273 punches in a back-and-forth fight that went the distance. He showed toughness, but also suggested he could get hit when exchanges open up.
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