On New Year’s Eve 2016, Jezreel Corrales (21-1, 8 KOs) scored a 12-round split-decision victory in against Takashi Uchiyama (24-2-1, 20 KOs) to defend his WBA Super Featherweight title at the Ota-City General Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.
The fight was a rematch of their April 2016 fight, which Corrales also won, but by second-round knockout.
In their second fight, Corrales did not score a knockout, but walked away with a tough, well-earned split-decision victory. Uchiyama even scored a knockdown in Round 5, though his effort was not enough to win on all of the judges’ scorecards.
Two judges had the fight for Corrales with scores of 115-112 and 117-120, while one judge had it 113-114 for Uchiyama.
In the co-main event, Ryoichi Taguchi (25-2-2, 11 KOs) fought to a split draw against Carlos Canizales (16-0-1, 13 KOs) to retain his WBA Light Flyweight title.
Check out the rest of the card’s results below.
There were several world title fights in Japan today, so check back again for more results.
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Results:
Jezreel Corrales vs. Takashi Uchiyama, rematch, 12 rounds, Super Featherweights
Corrales scored a 12-round split-decision victory.
Ryoichi Taguchi vs. Carlos Canizales, 12 rounds, Light Flyweights
Taguchi and Canizalez fought to a split draw.
Masayuki Ito vs. Takuya Watanabe, 12 rounds, Super Featherweights
Ito scored a 12-round unanimous decision victory and won with scores of 118-110, 117-111 and 117-111.
Keisuke Nakayama vs. Kongphichet Tosandet, 8 rounds, Super Flyweights
Nakayama scored a third-round stoppage victory at 1:49 of Round 3.
Masataka Taniguchu vs. Vincent Bautista, 6 rounds, Light Flyweights
Taniguchi scored a six-round UD victory with three scores of 60-54.
Hiroto Kyoguchi vs. Junuel Lacar, 6 rounds, Light Flyweights
Kyoguchi stopped Lacar at :46 of Round 3.
Shogo Sakai vs. Satoshi Kimura, 4 rounds, Featherweights
Sakai and Kimura fought to a split draw with the following scores :39-37, 38-39 and 38-38.
