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MAYOL?S SPARMATE TAKASHI OKADA WINS IN NEW YORK
By Ed de la Vega, DDS
PhilBoxing.com
Sun, 13 Jun 2010
Takasi Okada the young Japanese pug from Sagamihara, Kamawaga, Japan who trained at the Wildcard Gym and sparred three times a week with WBC World Junior flyweight champion Rodel Mayol tonight won his fight at the Madison Square Garden in New York.
Okada (3-0-1,1KO) fought and beat a local boy from New York, McWilliam Arroyo (3-1-0, 3KO). Arroyo was previously unbeaten and won all his previous three fights decisively- two by KO and another by TKO.
The judges scores were 39-36, 38-37, 38-37.
Okada is best remembered by Pinoy fight fans as the guy who fought an upstart Filipino at the Las Vegas Hilton last February, Bruno Escalante and was held to a draw. Escalante is a prot?g? of Nonito Donaire.
Okada dropped Arroyo in round two with a hard right hand. Then in round 3 he cut Arroyo?s right eyebrow . Fortunately, for the New Yorker, his cutman was able to handle the cut and gave him one more round.
The Okada-Arroya fight was an undercard of the Calderon-Uribe WBO Junior flyweight title fight which incidentally was decided in favor of The scores on that fight were: 118-109, 118-109 and 116-111.
Top photo: Rodel Mayol (L) and Takashi Okada during one of the sparring sessions at the Wildcard Gym in Hollywood.
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