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EAGLE KEEPS WBC 105LB BELT


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YOKOHAMA, JAPAN -- WBC 105-pound champ Eagle Kyowa (18-1, 6 KOs), 105, kept his belt as he swept almost all rounds, dropped Japanese challenger Akira Yaegashi (6-1, 5 KOs), 104.5, with a countering right in the tenth and pounded out a lopsided decision over twelve rounds on Monday in Yokohama, Japan.

The official tallies were as follows: Ray Hawkins (US) and Nicolas Hidalgo (Venezuela) both 119-107, and Jose de la Mora Delgado (Mexico) 118-108, all for the defending champ. The referee was Jose Cobian (US) who handled the fast-moving boys well.

The previously unbeaten Yaegashi turned out to have suffered a fractured jaw after the second round according to his manager/promoter and ex-WBC/WBA straw champ Hideyuki Ohashi. The tenth saw Eagle connect with a well-timed solid right to the face, flooring the game challenger to the deck. This knockdown might produce another fracture at the jaw, so Yaegashi had to fight on with an open mouth for the last two sessions.

It was a disappointment that Yaegashi, a highly expected ex-amateur national champ and ex-OPBF ruler, couldn't show anything against the more experienced champ. Eagle made a very good start as he almost toppled the younger challenger twice with a solid overhand right. Yaegashi, in the second, showed his aggressiveness in pinning the champ to the ropes with less accurate combinations. The Japanese challenger sustained a slight gash over the left eyelid caused by an accidental butt, which cost the uncut champ a point due to the WBC rules.

It was only his footwork that Yaegashi, from the third on, displayed to the frustrated adherents. Eagle maintained the pressure to the circling challenger, and occasionally connected with a few but effective left-right combos with precision. Steadily piling up points, Eagle looked content to show his better balance and superior timing in sometimes mixing up toe-to-toe in the close range.

Yaegashi, in the eighth, stopped his footwork to swap punches with the cool and aggressive champ, who proved superior whenever they mixed it up. Eagle was in command all night to realize that Yaegashi was much easier than expected.

Eagle, a Japan-based Thailander, showed his composure and cleverness in coping with the less experienced youngster all the way. Eagle will be obliged to face a WBC official challenger named Oleydong Sithsanerchai of Thailand (who recently barely defeated #2 ranked Omar Soto of Puerto Rico in an eliminator) in his next defense. He will most probably go back to his native country, Thailand, to face the WBC youth champ with his title at stake.

Yaegashi's manager Ohashi previously failed to win the WBC light-fly belt from Jungkoo Chang in his seventh pro bout in 1986. Ohashi's handler Kenji Yonekura also couldn't win the world flyweight belt from Argentine Pascual Perez in his seventh pro outing in 1959. Let's stop a ridiculous attempt to have a Japanese prospect to win a world title in his just seventh game to make a record. Seven means nothing. No one in the world but in Japan will evaluate a young Japanese boy winning the belt in his only seventh pro bout. With ten more bouts Yaegashi could have shown a better performance or might have acquired the belt. It pitifully proved too early for the hard-hitting prospect Yaegashi to have had a world crack. He only tasted a bitter experience in having lost a lopsided decision and suffered two fractures on the jaw.

Undercard:

Ex-WBC super-fly champ Katsushige Kawashima (31-6, 21 KOs), 119.25, made a successful comeback as he floored Korean Jaesung Myung (4-5), 118.25, four times en route to a fine knockout at 1:39 of the third round in a scheduled eight.

Promoter: Ohashi Promotions.

Matchmaker: Joe Koizumi.

(6-4-07)


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