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EX-PACQUIAO FOE BEATEN IN OPBF TITLE DUEL!
By Joe Koizumi
PhilBoxing.com
Sun, 09 Sep 2007
Unbeaten formerly four-time national amateur champ Takashi Uchiyama (8-0, 6 KOs), 130, acquired the OPBF super-feather belt as he battered WBC#14 ranked OPBF top contender Nedal Hussein (43-5, 27 KOs), 129.5, all the way and finally dropped him with a solid right to stop him at 1:32 of the eighth round on Saturday in Tokyo, Japan.
Uchiyama, a hard-hitting prospect, took the initiative from the outset and had Hussein on the defensive in every round. Hussein, from the fourth, occasionally retaliated with left hooks and right crosses, but was outhustled by the more aggressive Japanese. Uchiyama accelerated his attack and penetrated Hussein's tight guard with strong straight rights to have him staggering to the ropes.
In the fatal eighth, as Uchiyama had him on the deck with a vicious right following a combination, the loser's brother Billy Hussein signaled his surrender and jumped into the ring to save Nedal from further punishment. It seemed a wise decision, though Nedal had an argument with his brother by harshly insisting that he could still go on. Before the stoppage, the officials had tallied: 70-63, 70-64 and 68-64, all for Uchiyama, ex-amateur university champ.
Promoter: Watanabe Promotions.
Matchmaker: Joe Koizumi.
(9-8-07)
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