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Tokyo Showdown: Jaca, Honmo make weights!
By Salven L. Lagumbay
PhilBoxing.com
Fri, 19 May 2006
Both RP super-featherweight champ Jimrex Jaca and Japan`s Nobuhito Honmo easily made weight moments ago during official weigh-in at the Japan Boxing Commission headquarters in Tokyo, Japan in advance of their 12-round showdown tomorrow for ｔｈｅ ＯＰＢＦ １３０－ｌｂ ｃｒｏｗｎ ｒｅｃｅｎｔｌｙ ｖacated by Randy Suico.
Jaca, who sparred 215 rounds for this fight, came in at 127.4 lbs while the muscular Honmo tipped the scales at 129.6 lbs at the weigh-in supervised by JBC`s Eiichiro Sameshima.
Manny Pacquiao trainer Buboy Fernandez and Cebuano trainer Robert Bubuli accompanied Jaca at the weigh-in.
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