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ROCKY FUENTES WINS OPBF FLYWEIGHT TITLE
By Ronnie Nathanielsz PhilBoxing.com Wed, 10 Mar 2010
The Philippines Rocky Fuentes of the famed ALA Gym of respected boxing patron Tony Aldeguer has won the Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation flyweight title with a majority decision over defending champion Masafumi Okubo of Japan at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.
Japanese judge Kazunobu Asoj scored the fight 116-114 for Fuentes, Filipino judge Ben Necessario had the No. 1 rated challenger the winner 115-113 while Australian judge Brad Vocale scored it even at 114-114.
With the win Fuentes improves to 25-6-2 with 15 knockouts while Okubo drops to 16-3-1 with 5 knockouts.
The 29 year old Okuba had successfully defended his title three times after winning the crown by a twelve round unanimous decision over Korea’s Jin Ki Jung on April 14, 2008.
In his last defense on May 2, 2009 Okubu scored a 7th round TKO over Yuchi Eausampan after earlier retaining his crown with a unanimous decision over Filipino Jojo Bardon. He kept the title with a 3rd round technical decision in a fight against Yssuto Aritomi on August 16, 2008.
The 24 year old solidly built Fuentes was coming off a 3rd round TKO over Pit Anacaya last January 17 after earlier scoring a 2nd round knockout over Allan Ranada on June 27, 2009.
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