Tsuji upsets Yaegashi!
Wednesday, July 2 2008
By Joe Koizumi
Sensational six-round tournaments to decide next mandatory challengers to Japanese national champs started on Tuesday at the Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan, and we witnessed a stunning upset. Unheralded JBC#2 minimum Masatate Tsuji (11-1-2, 3 KOs), 104.75, a busy-punching but methodical southpaw, took the initiative and withstood a fifth-round retaliation of ex-OPBF champ and ex-world challenger, WBC#18 Akira Yaegashi (7-2, 5 KOs), 105, to score an upset majority decision (58-57 twice and 58-58) over six. No one had expected Tsuji’s triumph in what was viewed as a tune-up bout for Yaegashi. (More)
WBA#3/WBC#8 Japanese minimum champ Yasutaka Kuroki (18-3, 13 KOs), 105, impressively kept his national belt as he floored ex-champ Makoto Suzuki (21-13-2, 13 KOs), 105, twice and halted him with a volley of punches to prompt the referee’s intervention at 1:46 of the sixth round on Monday in Tokyo, Japan. (More)
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