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Former World Boxing Organization (WBO) super featherweight world champion, Masayuki Ito (25-2-1, 13 KOs), officially announced that he will return to the ring on the 13th of September at Tokyo's Korakuen Hall against an opponent to be defining in a 10 round bout at lightweight, not super feather.
According to the agenda of the Japan Boxing Commission, there will be a world title clash on August 24 at Takeda Teva Ocean Arena in the city of Nagoya, the capital of the province of Aich, where the unbeaten world champion of the World Boxing Organization (WBO), Kosei Tanaka (13-0, 7 KOs), will make a second defense of his title against the top rated challenger Jonathan "Bomba" González (22-2-1, 13 KOs).
Japan's Masayoshi Nakatani has already left for the United States, as this Friday he will collide with fellow undefeated lightweight, Teofimo Lopez, in an IBF final eliminator. The winner will get a crack at the current IBF champion, Richard Commey.
This past Saturday night, at a hotel in the city of Osaka, Japan, there was a press conference in which the flamboyant "regular" middleweight champion of the World Boxing Association (WBA) and gold medalist in the 2012 London Olympics, Ryota Murata (15-2, 12KOs), discussed his revenge victory over Rob Brant.
This past Monday in Tokyo, Shirai & Gushiken Sports Club of Tokyo announced in due form that WBO #2 ranked world super flyweight and former interim world champion fly of the WBA (World Association of Boxing), Koki Eto (24-4-1, 19 KOs will once again face WBO #5 Jeyvier "Perro" Cintron (10-1, 5KOs) on August 2 at Osceola Heritage Center, Kissimmee, Florida.
On Thursday, June 13, in a room set aside by "TMT Japan" (The Money Team) from Tokyo, Japan - there was a press conference held in which Floyd Mayweather Jr., 42, personally attended after arriving to Japan yesterday on his private plane from the US.
At a press conference which took place in Tokyo, officially announcing that unbeaten Japanese WBC light flyweight champion, Ken “The Amazing Boy” Shiro’s (15-0, 8 KO’s) will make the sixth defense against the official WBC challenger, Filipino southpaw Jonathan “Lightning” Taconing (28-3-1, 22KOs).
On Tuesday, the Japanese sensation Naoya "Monster" Inoue (18-0, 16 KOs) triumphantly returned to Japan at Haneda international airport in Tokyo after having an explosive victory in the semi-finals of the World Boxing Super Series bantamweight tournament.
On Wednesday in Glasgow, Scotland, the final press conference took place for the clash between the World Boxing Association (WBA) "regular" champion and the International Boxing Federation (IBF) world champion, which takes place on Saturday, May 18, at The SSE. Hydro.
In the hall of the Nanki Shirahana Golf Club located in the province of Wakayama, a press conference was held in which the super bantamweight interim world champion of the World Boxing Council (WBC), Japan's Tomoki "The Mexicanito" Kameda (36-2, 20 KOs) announced his upcoming mandatory fight with the full world champion Rey Vargas (32-0, 22 KOs).