WBO Master Wytreight Brian Norman Jr. And pretender Jin Sasaki successfully weighed on Wednesday at the 12-round Headliner on Thursday, June 19 in Tokyo, Japan.

The relationship starts live in ESPN+ on Thursday at 4 am et/1 in the morning PT – the main event will start around 7:15 ET/4: 15 AM PT

23 -year -old Sasaki secured this fight, meeting Norman Jr. And kindly asking for an opportunity. It was all enough for Brian to take part in the fight, but he would not lend a hand his popularity with fans. Americans are not familiar with Sasaki, and the time of broadcasting 4:00 ET for a Thursday event means that the boxing audience will not see him in the United States.

Norman Jr. (27-0, 21 KO) chose this fight with Sasaki (19-1-1, 17 KO) in connection with the unification match with IBF and the WBA WBA Jaron “BOOTS” HEADISA. This would of course be a better fight to take Norman, but the risk would be much higher than playing in a unthreatening place and defense against Sasaki.

Norman Jr. vs Sasaki: Weights, fight details

The Thursday fight Norman JR-Sasaki will be put up at the OTA-CITY General junior high school in Tokyo. The event will be shown live on ESPN+ at 4:00 ET/1: 00 AM PT). The fight against the subession will take place around 7:15 et/4: 15 in the morning

Complete weights for Tokyo

– Brian Norman Jr. – 146.8 vs. Jin Sasaki – 146.8
– Sora Tanaka 146.8 vs. Kobata tackat 146.8
– Yuya eye 125.4 vs. Reiya Abe 125.7
– Cristian Araneta 107.6 vs. Thanongsak Simsri 107.4

This will have a country’s advantage for Sasaki, which may not be enough to lend a hand him. Norman Jr. He strikes difficult and wants his opponents to fight aggressively. So, if Sasaki wants to go to war, Norman Jr. He will gladly accommodate him.

Sasaki has 78% knockout indicator, but his victories were stopped against less opposition. It can definitely hit, but it’s tardy. Sasaki has not yet fought with a pretender at the highest level during his career, but WBO still gave him ranking No. 2. He should be much lower, but WBO has its reasons.

Andy Cruz will soon receive the title of master IBF Raymond Muratalla after he became his mandatory, stopping Hironori Mishiro in the fifth round last Saturday evening at Madison Square Garden in Fresh York.

Muratalla (23-0, 17 KO) has recently been raised by IBF, and its promoters will want to focus on a more winning fight. Placing it with Cruz (6-0, 3 KO) would be a bad move. Muratalla is a good warrior, but not at Andy Cruz’s level.

“I do not know what is happening to this muratalla fight. I imagine that Matchroom is strongly pressing on this mandatory order as soon as possible,” said Chris Mannix on his own YouTube Channel, telling about Andy Cruz after he defeated Hironori Mishiro to become mandatory for the lightweight IBF Raymond Muratalla master last Saturday.

Muratalla strategic maneuvers

It would be fascinating to see what strategy will utilize the highest position to facilitate Muratalla maneuver around Cruz if IBF intends to fight. They could move Muratalla towards Unification with Abdullah Mason, if she defeats Noakes herself to capture the airy WBO title. However, 21-year-old Mason is youthful and it would be self-sufficient for the highest ranks to match him with 28-year-old Muratalla.

“I imagine that the highest rank, which promotes Muratalla, does everything that he can’t play this fight soon,” said Mannix. “I don’t know why they would like to come in with Andy Cruz. Maybe they had Muratalla Fight Abdullah Mason. He will fight Sam Noakes [for the vacant WBO lightweight title]. This was ordered. I think that the highest class rank will do a few things. “

They would end the chance to match Muratall with someone like Izaak “Pitbull” Cruz or Frank Martin. These are realistic fights that Raymond would have a good chance of winning.

“I would like to see the fight between Cruz and Muratalla,” said Mannix. “He is undefeated and is a good warrior. This win that Tevin Farmer survived, better in the fight. I would love to see this fight, but I just don’t see it to get into it at all. I don’t think it is realistic.”

Andy Cruz is a much better warrior than 36-year-old Farmer Tevin. The success that Muratalla had against him does not mean that he could do the same against Cruz.

Cruza growing airy attitude

“Whenever Andy Cruz gets a chance, I think he won the title. And when he wins this title, you look around:” All right, can we make Andy Cruz vs. Shakur Stevenson? ” It’s a good fight.

The best rank will not want to throw Muratalla with Cruz after watching what Mishiro did last Saturday evening. They will want Muratalla to defend himself against someone less hazardous and try to hold long enough to fight a more significant warrior. Tank Davis and Shakur Stevenson are not either. Fighting with Muratalla has no money.

Jaime Mungia, a former owner of the title in the average weight, could face the disciplinary action after his b-tribe returned positively to the forbidden substance after his unanimous victory regarding the decision on Bruno.

Munguia saw the victory fell over to the lack of and could meet the suspension from six months to one year.

The Munguia team maintained their innocence in a statement on Tuesday, which confirmed that his test returned positively to the exogenous testosterone metabolites.

“We want to repeat that this result does not change our position: Jaime has not consciously or intentionally consumed any forbidden substance,” said the team in his statement. “We are steadfastly convinced that this result was caused by pollution and we are still taking every possible step to identify the source.

“Jaime remains unwavering in his involvement in pure competition and we will continue to work closely with experts and relevant authorities to achieve full transparency.”

After the initial positive Munguia test (45-2, 35 KO) said that the discovery was a “complete surprise” and formally asked to test his samples B. He suggested that he would be open to go through “retroactive, current or future tests to show that I was always a pure athlete.”

Now that these discoveries are in line with his attempt A, Mungia will expect disciplinary activities of the British boxing council.

“I spent my whole career doing things in the right way – and this is not an exception,” Mungia said in a statement. “I love boxing and I am the first to explain everything because boxing is my life. I can’t wait to return to the ring. We will prove that we never respected this sport, my opponents or introduced fans.”

Mungui’s victory over Surace took place in the rematch of the December fight, which Surace won by knockout.