Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan - Former WBA super bantamweight champion Akifumi Shimoda (30-4-2, 13 KOs), now fighting as a featherweight, picks up his second win in a row since suffering the brutal third round knockout to Marvin Sonsona last February i...
Ryota Murata continues to enjoy a rapid rise in the pro ranks, scoring a 4th round stoppage of veteran middleweight Carlos Nascimento. Murata (3-0, 3KO), who captured a gold medal for Japan in the 2012 London Olympics, floored Nascimento (29-4, 2...
Saturday’s doubleheader telecast airs at 5:00 p.m. (ET/PT) on HBO2. The telecast kicks off from CotaiArena at The Venetian Macao in Macau, China, as flyweights Zou Shiming and Yokthong Kokietgym square off for eight rounds and lightweights Miguel Vas...
Tickets are now on sale for the rescheduled Team Sauerland show in Berlin on March 29th featuring IBF Cruiserweight Champion Yoan Pablo Hernandez and British heavyweight David Price. The show was postponed by three weeks due to a viral infection s...
“Marvelous” Marvin Sonsona weighed in at 125.6 pounds for his WBO International featherweight title fight against former WBA super bantamweight champion Akifumi Shimoda of Japan, who tipped the scales at 125.8 pounds for their showdown at the Cotai A...
“Marvelous” Marvin Sonsona (17-1-1, 14 KO’s) who became the second youngest Filipino world champion at the age of 19 when he handily beat veteran Puerto Rican super flyweight champion Jose Carita Lopez but then fell prey to good times and a carefree...
The proposed WBA featherweight unification clash between champions Simpiwe Vetyeka and Nicholas Walters is off and now Vetyeka will make the mandatory defence of the crown he lifted from retired Indonesian legend Chris John in Macau, China on Februar...
Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan - Former WBC flytweight champion Toshiyuki Igarashi (18-2-1, 11KOs) stopped veteran Omar Soto (23-11-2) in the ninth round of action. Igarashi was returning for the first time since his April decision loss, where he lost h...
By Jake Donovan - Akifumi Shimoda registered his fourth consecutive win with a ninth round stoppage over Hugo Partida on Wednesday evening at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. As has been the case in each of his post-title reign fights, Shimoda was i...