Moments in the past in Osaka, Japan, WBC/WBA 108 pound ruler Kenshiro Teraji retained his belts courtesy of a heck of a hard-fought 12 spherical majority resolution win over Venezuela’s Carlos Canizales. The battle, a terrific one and completely an early contender for Combat of the Yr, noticed 32 12 months outdated Teraji win through scores of 114-112, 114-112, with the third choose having it even at 113-113.
32 12 months outdated Teraji, who was participating in his fifteenth world title battle, is now 23-1(14). 30 12 months outdated Canizales, a former WBA “common” mild flyweight champion, falls to 26-2-1(19).
Now to the motion, and the seemingly inevitable debate/controversy at the moment’s majority resolution will generate.
First up, the motion was terrific at the moment, with each males giving their all in an absolute firefight. Canizales got here out quick, scoring together with his left hook to the pinnacle. Each males hit the canvas within the early going of the battle. Canizales was tagged by a proper hand counter in spherical two and his steadiness was badly compromised, with each males falling down because the harm Canizales grabbed the champion’s legs.
Within the third, Teraji landed a left hand/proper hand that noticed the challenger contact down. After the 2 knockdowns, the battle turned a conflict, a battle of attrition, with some fierce buying and selling of leather-based. Astonishingly, each males picked up the already sizzling tempo within the fifth. There have been some actually nice rounds, as there have been some powerful to attain periods. Canizales was the aggressor and from this view the challenger landed the extra hurtful, damaging pictures. Additionally, Canizales made a behavior of closing robust on the finish of a spherical at the moment, this maybe having an impact on the judges.
By the seventh spherical, Canizales was visibly drained, however this one was hell for each males. Each warriors went to the physique properly, and fairly savagely, and the motion by no means relented. Canizales appeared to get his second wind late on, whereas Teraji boxed and jabbed within the closing two rounds, maybe feeling he had achieved sufficient for the factors win. And so he had, formally.
However Canizales, who for positive felt he had received, might be checked out as a fighter who was arduous achieved by at the moment, a sufferer of some ‘residence cooking,’ even. The seemingly inevitable arguing at the moment’s resolution will get mustn’t detract from what a terrific battle at the moment’s battle was although.
We had an in depth, controversial battle this previous Saturday, between Natasha Jonas and Mikaela Mayer, and at the moment’s slugfest may additionally show to be a battle that significantly divides opinion in the case of who actually received.
As with the all-action girls’s battle, a rematch wouldn’t be a nasty thought right here.
