All Hail Nihito Arakawa:The Man of Steel

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Just finished watching this fight. 12 rounds of brutal warfare. I hope they'll showcase Arakawa (he needs a nickname so we can identify him easier) on Showtime again. Or any network for that matter. Props should be given to Omar as well as he won comfortably but not to what the scorecards would suggest.

An interesting note that I heard from a friend of mine who is a boxing writer is that Arakawa was actually considering retiring before this fight with Figueroa. If he had done that, we obviously wouldn't be talking about him today.

Hopefully the reception and appreciation he got from the fans in San Antonio make him reconsider retiring.

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great warrior from arakawa nothing but respect to the guy, the crowd loved him.

i went back to the hotel and i saw his family waiting for him. 3am and they were still outside. i hope he's okay

They were both discharged without incident.

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