This past week has been a relatively quiet one in Asian boxing circles, but has been an interesting one all the same, with a number of notable bouts being announced through the week. The first of those bouts set to take place will be on May 21st when former OPBF Super Flyweight champion Ryo Matsumoto (19-1, 17) battlers with Indonesian veteran Hendrik Barongsay (29-25-3, … [Read more...]

This past week hasn't been the busiest in Asian boxing circles, but there has been a a number of stories of varying interest. The first of news was a real success story with Japanese sources reporting that last Sunday's WBA Flyweight title bout between Kazuto Ioka (22-1, 13) and Noknoi Sitthiprasert (62-5, 38) garneded huge TV figure. The bout gained an average rating of … [Read more...]

This past week has been a bit of a crazy one with numerous bouts being announced, almost on a daily basis. In fact the rest of the news was really limited, but there was that many bouts, and orders that there was always something happening. To begin with I'll quickly run through the orders from the various world title bodies. The WBA have ordered negotiations to begin for … [Read more...]

This past week has been a relatively quiet one for Asian boxing news, but there has been a few stories of some note. The first of those came on Monday where one of the most notable was in regards to WBA Super Bantamweight champion Shun Kubo (12-0, 9). The Shinsei man drew an amazing 8.7% in the Kansai region. To put that into perspective the fight between Kubo and Nehomar … [Read more...]

Well what a week we've had with a host of big announcements at the start of the week! News- The first bit of news from this past week was a bit of a disappointing story that fan favourite Minimumweight action man Katsunari Takayama (31-8-0-1, 12) had retired from professional boxing. The former grandslam winner stated that he was walking away from professional boxing to … [Read more...]