Yoshihiro Kamegai Knocks Jose Alfaro Out in Six Rounds

By Jhonny Gonzalez

At the big Teiken card in Tokyo, Japana, highly respected Japanese prospect Yoshihiro Kamegai scored a major victory with a sixth round technical knockout of former champion José Alfaro.

Alfaro and Kamegai broke into an interesting battle. In the early stage, Alfaro tried to impose himself with strong attacks. However, Kamegai took over in the third round and began to gradually dominate the action with smashing powerful blows to the face of Alfaro.

In the sixth, Alfaro was taking punishment and took a knee to get some breathing room. He made it back up, but the ref felt that he had taken enough punishment and stopped the fight at 2:36.

Kamegai raised his record to 17-0, 15 KOs, and Alfaro drops to 24-7, 21 KOs. The fight was held at a catch-weight of 142.5-pounds. Alfaro is a former WBA lightweight champion.

In another match on this card, Japanese bantamweight Shinsuke Yamanaka (13-0, 9 KOs) defeated Mexico's José Silveira (11-3, 4 KOs) by way of a ninth round TKO.