Results From Tokyo: Norman Flattens Sasaki, Simsri Picks Up Vacant Belt, And More

Simsri Def. Christian Araneta

Kicking off the televised portion of the card from Japanos Thanongsak simsri, taking on Philipino Cristian Araneta for the vacant ibf light flyweight title. The Thai Simsri has made Several trips to Japan’s Already, Having Tons of The Road, Barring a Knockout Loss to Two-Time World Champion Masamuchi Yabuki Yabuki.

Araneta, for His part, has twice fought in the world title eliminators, Though He was unsuccessful in Those Tries. Despite Being The Smaller of the Two, Simsri Established His Range From The Very Beginning, Outworking Araneta in the Early Rounds. The Filipino Found His Moment to Take Advantage of Sims From Overconfidence; However, at The End of the Third Round, A Massive Counter Left From The Thai Araneta The Thai.

Araneta Closed Out The Round Strong, Pinning Simsri Against The Ropes and Landing Several Clean Blows. Now with Simsri Having Been Dropped and Both Men Sporting Deep Cuts Oir Eyes, The Fight Fell Into A Definite Rhythm.

Aranet Imposed Himself Physically As the Bigger Man, Picking His Shots And Landing Hard Southpaw Lefts. But for the Majority of Major Rounds, Simsri Landed significantly more volume, cutting angles on the Araneta and Staying Busy on the outsider.

The Scorecards reflected Nature of the Fight to the Fight Just Narrowly Took A Split Decision to Become Champion and Notch The Biggest Victory of His Career. For Araneta, it must be a Very frustrating Result; He’s Now Lost To The Best Fighters on His Resume, and this Resault Was Seemingly Avoidable I Couldn’t Only Found A Bit More Pace Down The Stretch.

Reiya his def. Yuya to

Next On The Cards Veteran Veteran Veter In The Japanese Featherweight Title, Seeing The Very Experienced Southpaw Reiya Square Off Against Unbeaten Prospect Yuya Oku.

Abe displayed Exceptional footwork from The Very Start, Sliding in and Out of Range to Shots in Shots, Usually Avoiding Any Counter From Oku. Oku Found A Few Fight On The Fight On the Fight, Occasionally Timeran’s Head Movement, Butk’s Head Movement, Largely Was Lelarded by Abab’s Slick Movement and Stinging Lefts.

His Work Rate Stayed Consistent Both in Terms of His Movement and His Combinations. Oku Did His Best To Will Himself Into The Fight, But By The Time The Ten Rounds Had HDed, The Damage Had Clearly Accumulated On Him.

It was a truly impressive, cagey, veteran performance on the comeback trail after the comeback Trail Abockout to Luis Alberto Lopez Back in 2024. AS WAS A GREAT LEARNING FIGHT FOR A FIGHTER IN HIS CAREER. He improved Immesely As the Fight Went, and I’m Sure Hearing He’ll Continue to Get Better at The Japanese Domestic Level.

Sora Tanaka Def. Takeru Cobata

In The Co-Main Event, Japanese Amateur Champion Sora Tanaka Continued His Campaign in the Professional Domestic Talent Takeru Kobata. Tanaka Is All-Pressure, All-Violence Fighter, Marching Down His Foe and Throwing Power Shots With Little Connection.

Despite Being the Shorter Boxer, Tanaka Had Kobata on The Ropes From The Very Start. Every Power Shot HE Landed Kobata to His Core, But Kobata Had No Problem Finding His Chances to Crack The Prospect Tanaka Either.

The Fight Only Lasted Four Rounds, But to Be Honest, Kobata Did Well to Survive That Long, As He Absorbed An Insane Amount of Damage Throughout The Contest. There were a hardly dull Moment as Both Stood in the Pocket and Exchanged Bell to Bell.

When The Stoppage Did Come, It’s a Little Disappointing As His Feet and He Had Just Rocked Tanaka, But The Fight Was Pure Action and One of My Favorites Thus Far. I Don’t Know How Far Tanaka Will Move With The All-Offense Style, But I’m There Every Step Takes.

Brian Norman Jr. Def. Jin Sasaki

Finally, in the Main Event, Another Japanese Offensive Dynamo In Jin Sasaki Challenged The Supremely Skilled Brian Norman Jr. For His Wbo Welterweight title. Norman Made Its That There was a Gap in Levels Between the Two Almost Immediately dropping the Hometown Hero Twice in The First Round.

Sasaki Was Hardly Deterred and Pressured Norman Regardless, But His Signature Power Had Very Little Effect On The Champ. Sasaki Still Did Very Well to Force His Sort of Fight, Staying in Norman’s Face Constantly Taking Damage.

Many Would Have Wilted, But Sasaki Never Did. Norman Stayed Consistently Great Throughout Fight, Never Getting Seemingly Rocked And Jumping Opportunities to Land Whenever Sasaki presented them.

It all Came Crashing Down For The Challenger in The Fifth Round. Asraki retreated after a jab to the body, Norman Landed A Clean Left Hook, Putting the Japanese Fighter Out Instant Knockout of the Year Contender. It was an emphatic Second Defense of His title for The Young Champion in Norman.

The scenes were busy for pretty worrying, Who Needed to Be Stretchered Out. He Showed Immense Fighting Spirit, BUT Corner Probably Should Have Pulled Out With The Amount Of Damage Norman Was Putting Him. This Regardless of That, This Fight Was An Incredible Capstone On A Very Entertaining Card Midweek Card.