Masamichi Yabuki-Felix Alvarado: MP promotions wins rights to IBF title fight
MP Promotions claimed the rights to the Masamichi Yabuki-Felix Alvarado IBF flyweight title fight.
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Masamichi Yabuki to remain at flyweight, will vacate IBF junior flyweight title
Masamichi Yabuki has reached a point in his wildly entertaining career where he is only interested in the biggest fights possible.
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Masamichi Yabuki drops, stops Angel Ayala in final round to become two-division titlist
Yabuki hands Ayala his first career defeat and takes his belt from him.
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Angel Ayala-Masamichi Yabuki set for March 29 in Japan
The IBF flyweight champion Angel Ayala (18-0 8 KOs) will travel to Tokoname, Japan, on March 29 to make the first defense of his title against the IBF light-flyweight titlist Masamichi Yabuki
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Sivenathi Nontshinga promises to rise again after defeat to Masamichi Yabuki
Former IBF light flyweight champion Sivenathi Nontshinga has vowed to bounce back and become a three-time world champion after losing his title to heavy-handed Japan star Masamichi Yabuki.
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Sivenathi Nontshinga's Japanese gamble backfires as Masamichi Yabuki earns his second world title
Japanese veteran Masamichi Yabuki became a two-weight world champion with a ninth-round victory over South African star Sivenathi Nontshinga to claim the IBF junior flyweight title.
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IBF champion Sivenathi Nontshinga set to return against heavy-handed Masamichi Yabuki
Sivenathi Nontshinga will head to Japan to defend the title he lost to and regained from Curiel, against the IBF’s No. 2, 32-year-old Japanese puncher Masamichi Yabuki, 16-4 (15 KOs) on October 12 in Nagoya and he upset Kenshiro Teraji in September 2021, stopping Teraji in the 10th round to claim the WBC junior flyweight title.
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Nontshinga Likely To Defend IBF Title Against Yabuki Next
The IBF has ordered South Africa's Sivenathi Nontshinga to defend his title against Japan’s Masamichi Yabuki.
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Kenshiro Teraji Corrects Course: Weekend Afterthoughts
It took nine title fights, and ten more rugged rounds, to send Japan’s Kenshiro Teraji to the ranks of former beltholders. It took three rounds for Teraji to remind everyone that anyone can have a bad night, especially in the aftermath of COVID. Saturday in Kyoto, Teraji brought the fight to his conqueror Masamichi Yabuki, stalking, feinting with the left, and setting up the most important right hand of his career.
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Kenshiro Teraji Drops, Stops Masamichi Yabuki In Third Round, Regains WBC Crown
Kenshiro Teraji sent an emphatic reminder of why he once was—and should again be—regarded as the baddest junior flyweight on the planet. A reversal of fortune was enjoyed by Teraji, who avenged his lone career defeat following a third-round knockout of countryman Masamichi Yabuki to regain the WBC junior flyweight title. Teraji floored Yabuki to produce an immediate stoppage at 1:11 of round three in their anticipated rematch Saturday at City Gym in Kyoto, Japan.
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