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3-Time, 2-Division World Champion Miyo Yoshida risks world title shot in her February 1st return in Newark

PhilBoxing.com




NEW YORK CITY (January 27, 2025) – Coming off her controversial loss by decision to new International Boxing Federation (IBF) Bantamweight World Champion Shurretta Metcalf (14-4-1, 2 KOs) last October, three-time, two-division world champion Miyo Yoshida (17-5) returns to the ring February 1st against Slovakian super bantamweight Beata Dudek (5-5, 4 KOs).

Yoshida vs. Dudek is a scheduled 8-round fight on a card presented by Prime Time Promotions at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.

COMPUBOX statistics for last October’s Yoshida vs. Metcalf 2 were heavily in favor of Yoshida, who lost her IBF Women’s Bantamweight World title, due to the judge’s dubious scores of 99-91 (Robin Taylor), Robert Perez (97-93) and Max DeLuca (96-94).

According to COMPUBOX, Yoshida finished the fight ahead 96-64 overall, 49-17 in jabs, 30-16 in body punches and 8-0-2 in a round-to-round breakdown of total connects.

Yoshida’s masterful defense kept her opponent at a distance, resulting in a large percentage of Metcalf’s punches falling short of connecting, striking nothing but air.

Overall, Yoshida landed an astonishingly 50-percent more punches (96-64) than Metcalf, in addition to having a much higher accuracy percentage, nearly three times as great at 22-percent to her opponent’s 9-percent.

Yoshida’s manager, New York-based lawyer Keith Sullivan, filed an appeal to the IBF, requesting an immediate rematch. The IBF reviewed Sullivan’s legal filing and supporting statistical data and took the rare move of maintaining Yoshida in the #1 ranking, and ordering her as Metcalf’s mandatory challenger, demanding Metcalf to defend her crown against Yoshida.

“I am very grateful to the IBF and my manager, Mr. Sullivan,” Yoshida said about her present status. “Looking back at the last match, I am horrified by the scoring results, especially 99-91. We had an excellent game plan to address the height and reach advantage of my opponent and we were faulted by the judges for executing it perfectly.”

The main difference between her last and upcoming fights is her mental approach to win so clearly that everyone will agree when her hand is raised in victory. Yoshida’s unconcerned about risking her mandatory title shot versus Metcalf by taking this fight with Dudek, who fights out of Hungary.

“Last year,” she explained, “I only fought one match. There was a gap between matches. In order to be in top condition, I want to fight consistently, and I’ll definitely be ready to win this match.

“My opponent (Dudek) is one weight class higher and the same height as Metcalf. So, I wanted this fight for those reasons, a bigger and taller opponent to prepare me for the re-match. Dudek is an opponent not to be underestimated. I have been training hard to keep up my spirits. I started fighting at flyweight and this will be my first time fighting at 121 pounds, but I’ve braced myself for it.”

“Miyo had a great camp. She will put on a tremendous display of her boxing skill and power. Her focus and commitment to her training is inspiring,” noted her head trainer Jimmy Sosa, who trains her with his brother Aurelino and conditioning coach, Sergiy Korchynskyy.

“By taking this fight, Miyo risks losing the title shot but she was adamant she wanted to keep busy and wanted a taller, heavier, and stronger opponent,” added Miyo’s manager Keith Sullivan. “I was very pleased with the IBF decision. I filed that within 48 hours of the decision. God willing, Miyo emerges Saturday victorious then the title shot is next.”

A boxing lawyer as well as a former Deputy Commissioner for the NYS Athletic Commission, Sullivan also manages undefeated Brooklyn heavyweight prospect Pryce Taylor (5-0, 3 KOs) and undefeated Bronx NYPD Officer Nisa Rodriguez (3-0, 1 KO), the WBA No. 3 rated welterweight, in addition to co-managing world-rated (WBA #5, IBF #6, WBC #13) welterweight contender Paddy “The Real Deal” Donovan (14-0, 11 KOs), the reigning WBA Continental Champion from Limerick, Ireland. Sullivan co-manages Donovan with former world middleweight champion Andy Lee, who is also Donovan’s head trainer.

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