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LAURENTE LOSES OPBF SUPER WELTERWEIGHT TITLE BY SPLIT DECISION
By Ronnie Nathanielsz PhilBoxing.com Tue, 24 Nov 2015

The Philippines Dennis Laurente has lost his Oriental Pacific Boxing Federation super welterweight title by a split decision to No.1 ranked Japanese Takayuki Hosakawa on Sunday, Manila Time.
With the loss the veteran Laurente?s record dropped to 49-7-5 with 30 knockouts.
The two Japanese judges both saw it as a close fight with Sojo Sakamoto turning in a 115-113 scorecard while the other Japanese judge Hishatoshi Miyazaka had his countryman the winner by an even closer 115-114 margin.
However, Filipino judge Carlo Baluyot turned in what seemed like a ridiculously lopsided scorecard of 118-110 in favor of Laurente.
Laurente won the vacant title with a 6th round TKO over Tadasi Yuba last December 18, 2014 but unfortunately lost the title in his first defense.
In his last fight, Laurente dropped a unanimous ten round decision to John Jackson in Florida last August 2.
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