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In one of the bigger upsets of 2017, unheralded Japanese fighter Sho Kimura stopped famed two-time Olympic gold medalist Zou Shiming to claim the WBO flyweight belt.
Kimura was a big underdog against the ex-champion from China, thus his Cinderella story wasn't expected to last for long. But the doubters were silenced again when Kimura stopped Toshiyuki Igarashi, a former WBC flyweight champion and the WBO's No. 1-rated challenger, in the ninth rounds of bloody, fan-friendly affair Sunday night in Tokyo.
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Kimura was a big underdog against the ex-champion from China, thus his Cinderella story wasn't expected to last for long. But the doubters were silenced again when Kimura stopped Toshiyuki Igarashi, a former WBC flyweight champion and the WBO's No. 1-rated challenger, in the ninth rounds of bloody, fan-friendly affair Sunday night in Tokyo.
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