Comments Thread For: Kazuto Ioka-Fernando Martinez Unification Fight Set on Paper

[BoxingUpdates]

An agreement in principle has been reached for Japan's longtime champion Kazuto Ioka to face Argentina's Fernando Martinez in a junior bantamweight title unification bout in Japan the first week of July.
[Click Here To Read More]

[KING S.O.G]

Great fight!

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Ioka up at “junior middleweight”? He must be eating like Ricky Hatton used to in between fights.

In all seriousness, good matchup, I think the timing might just be right for Martinez.

[BigZ44]

Martinez might be able to overpower and outwork Ioka at this stage, interesting matchup and great fight

[Elheath]

With Estrada taken by Bam, I guess this is the next best thing Ioka can hope for. I wonder if all goes well, Bam could fight the winner...tho life never goes that nicely.

[Kevsfine]

Real boxing fans know Ioka wins this, and knows Estrada beats Bam, it’s a great fight and debate, but we all know Estrada is going to BEAT BAM !!!!

[famicommander]

Article has Ioka as a 3 division titlist but he's actually a 4 division titlist. It can be confusing because of the WBA and their idiotic splintering of their own title, but he held the top WBA belts in 4 weight classes (and a WBC belt and a WBO belt as well).

Strawweight: WBC/WBA unified
Light Flyweight: WBA (Regular title for most of his reign but elevated to full WBA champion after Chocolatito vacated the Super title in January 2014)
Flyweight: WBA (again, Regular elevated to full champion when the Super Champion vacated)
Super Flyweight: WBO (first reign), WBA (second reign, current)

[lagako10]

Easy win for martinez

[J.C. Superstar]

Fantastic fight, would be awesome if the winner of Ioka/Martinez fights the winner of Bam/Estrada.

Kosei Tanaka should get another fight someone like Christofer Rosales in the mean time.

[crimsonfalcon07]

Very nice. Could get an undisputed fight at 115 if the right people win. At least one of those guys doesn't do unifications...