IBF#5 Shimomachi Edges #7 Abe
By Joe Koizumi
Photos by Naoki Fukuda (to come soon)
Elongated southpaw IBF#7 feather Toshiki Shimomachi (23-1-3, 12 KOs), 125.5, scored a majority decision (96-94 twice, 95-95) over #7 Reiya Abe (28-5-2, 10 KOs), 126, over ten close rounds on Saturday at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo. They paid too high respect each other, and we didn’t see hot exchanges of punches in an all-southpaw contest. But the 5’11” Toshiki constantly threw more jabs to maintain the initiative, which carried him to a hairline victory. The victor scored twenty-one wins in a row.
Promoter: Ohashi Promotions.
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