Comments Thread For: Takayama Stops Odaira In Seven, Regains 105 Lb. Title

[JakeNDaBox]

Katsunari Takayama is now a two-time strawweight titlist, the latest coming in a 7th round stoppage of countryman Go Odaira in a rare vacant unification title fight Wednesday evening in Osaka, Japan. [Click Here To Read More]

[glenn mcrory]

Both sanctioning bodies involved (IBF and WBO) agreed to make their titles available for this fight, rather than sanction separate vacant title fights, in the latest of a series of moves suggesting the alphabets are finally trying to do right by the sport.

lol so handing out two freebie titles to a guy that just lost them is "doing right by the sport" lol. Nope it's just that unwavering, all too alluring smell of that fat japanese wallet opening.

[wildman]

So putting an unknown domestic Japanese caliber guy like Odaira in a "world" title fight is doing the right thing for the sport? Some of these idiotic sportswriters are as big a problem as the alphabet organizations.