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For the experienced Sweet Scientist, the early manifestation of a Japanese prospect among the world-class is hardly a matter for remark anymore. Naoya Inoue has battered his way to the very top of the pound-for-pound list in just twenty fights after being matched for the Japanese 108lb title in his fourth fight. Kenshiro Teraji currently sits upon the 108lb throne after being matched for his first “world” strap in just his tenth fight.

So, for her next trick, on the same day, on the same card, this coming weekend in Tokyo, Japan will match two brothers for straps although their records currently stand at just 8-0 and 6-0.

The Shigeoka brothers may sound like a writer’s dream, but there are difficulties. Born two years apart in Kumamoto, the two, naturally enough, look rather alike – but they also box in the same weight division (105lbs), are both southpaws, and have the same knockout ratio (66.67%). Telling their story is more a matter of separating them then joining them so that is what I will do, starting with the younger of the two brothers, Ginjiro, who has been matched to face Rene Mark Cuarto of The Philippines for the interim IBF belt.

Ginjiro Shigeoka vs Rene Mark Cuarto

Ginjiro (8-0, 6 KOs) is twenty-three years old, two years younger than his older brother Yudai, and, at five-foot nothing, the shorter of the two. Ginjiro is also the more accomplished of the two Shigeokas, having found himself ranked at the bottom end of the 105lb top ten in the first months of 2021after dispatching Rey Loreto in five brutal rounds. Ginjiro was something of a bouncer at this time, boxing with the false economy of the amateur, affordable in the world of the unpaid ranks where fights are short and less brutal. Ginjiro was a success there – indeed, the only loss on his amateur ledger came against Yudai, against whom he threw in the towel before the first bell after being drawn against him in a national tournament. Loreto was boxing his fortieth professional contest and had lost just one of his last ten, that coming to the current divisional number one Thammanoon Niyomtrong (aka Knockout CP Freshmart), but despite Ginjiro’s posturing, the more experienced man still struggled with Ginjiro’s blinding southpaw jab and the left he often tossed in behind.

“Tossed” is the right word. Ginjiro is perhaps too relaxed in the ring, but the variety is already there on the jab, up and down, fast or hard, blinding in support of other punches or a scoring shot on its own; the left hand goes straight, but he also comes squarer to throw it, just as he did for a first-round knockdown against Loreto who made the mistake of stepping inside and being rattled to the canvas in short order. Hurt twice in the third by straights, Ginjiro’s propensity for over-aggression and retreating with speed rather than technique was briefly uncovered, but he won every other round.  When he stopped Loreto in the fifth he became the first man to do it since 2011 – and he has improved since then.

We got a glimpse of these improvements most recently in January when Ginjiro matched IBF world title-holder Daniel Valladares, the excellent Mexican minimumweight. They split the opening two rounds but the southpaw-orthodox headclash seemed inevitable, Valladares looping in overhand rights while Ginjiro drove forwards with his southpaw straight. Sure enough, two accidental headbutts in the third brought the bout to a premature ending and a No Contest verdict. Ginjiro’s first tilt at a belt ended in disappointment.

This is how Rene Mark Cuarto (21-3-2) has entered the picture. With Valladares in injury-bound limbo, the ABC in question has just happily replaced him with Cuarto, a man Valladares defeated last July.  That match, a split decision victory for Valladares in Mexico, was a chaotic affair filled with chaotic refereeing and even more chaotic fighting, Cuarto steaming in two-handed and being countered by left hands. In the end the decision was probably just but Cuarto had no luck, scoring a knockdown which was incorrectly ruled a slip and bizarrely having a point deducted for suffering repeatedly loose tape on his glove.

He is made for Ginjiro in two senses of the word. First, the inexperienced Japanese will not have to unlock Cuarto. He is not going to hide, move, or box, he is going to attack and will do so with wide, big punches; he will give up chances and Ginjiro will take them. The other sense in which Cuarto is made for Ginjiro though is that he is made to test him. Ginjiro is no defensive mastermind, and this is matter of style, of choice, before it is a matter of technical capability. Ginjiro will choose a firefight against Cuarto, who has been beaten, but never stopped. The winner will find out much about himself in this contest, and so will we.

Much is at stake. I rank Cuarto one spot higher at number eight so the loser will exit the top ten, and the winner will rematch Valladares in one of the few 105lbs contests that can deliver a healthy purse bid. That winner will be Ginjiro but he must be able to hold Cuarto’s punches, and as is always the case when a top prospect is moved into the top ten for the first time, we will know when we know.  This match, though, is the headliner and it should be a savage and exciting contest.

Yudai Shigeoka vs Wilfredo Mendez

Yes, Ginjiro-Cuartes is the main attraction but that is not by design. Yudai (6-0, 4 knockouts), for the first time in a long time, was supposed to step out from his younger brother’s diminutive shadow in a match against the brilliant Panya Pradabsri, who has been ruled out of a rare journey from his native Thailand to defend his number two ranking on Japanese soil. Strep throat, for which he has apparently been hospitalised, is the culprit.

So Yudai must satisfy himself with a chief supporting act once more against late substitution Wilfredo Mendez (18-2) out of Puerto Rico. In fairness to Yudai and his team, this is likely as excellent a late replacement as they could have uncovered. Mendez cannot punch but comes with real pedigree and ranked among the four or five best 105lb boxers in the world up until his 2021 elimination at the hands of Japanese deluxe gatekeeper Masataka Taniguchi, in what was a major upset.

Since, Mendez has put himself back together boxing wide decision victories against overmatched opposition on undercards in Santo Domingo. Here, he has honed an odd southpaw style, perched over a front leg in a deep stance, almost square, elusive with his upper body, fighting aggressively on the inside while awaiting chances on the outside. Patient and experienced at title-level, he is a far cry from the merciless Panya, but he is exactly the type of late substitute that brings promoters out in a cold sweat – adaptable, something of a spoiler and not a man who will travel to Tokyo to lose.

To understand the level of risk that is being encountered here, we need to take a quick look back at Yudai’s 2021 match with Tsubasa Koura. Koura was a risky fight in and of itself, matching Yudai in just his fourth fight against a fighter who had essentially been him a few years prior. Japan’s Rookie of the Year in 2015, Koura had been found out against Lito Dante, who stopped him in 2019 in a real upset.  Career stalled, Koura fought Yudai like what he was – a man who had seen his dreams dashed and was handed one more chance at redemption. The majority decision win that went Yudai’s way was fair, but he was literally one point away from the draw and he needed a very strong finish to get there after being out-muscled and out-hustled in the first half of the fight.

Now, another man who has had his dreams dashed and been handed one more chance at redemption is headed for town and it may require another strong finish to stop him.

Yudai has a heavier jab than his brother and is more measured when he throws it. At 5’3” he is the taller and rangier of the two and also the stronger, I think, certainly he is bodily the more aggressive, more given to grappling and wrestling and trying to dominate when he grapples and wrestles, although this did not serve him well against Koura. Indeed, prior to the Koura fight I saw Yudai as the greater potential success story. I thought of him as more measured both offensively and defensively, already given to more arbitrary movement of the head and body, he seemed the more technically systematic of the pair. Although his trials and tribulations have been far less dramatic, I was reminded of my feelings regarding Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko before Wladimir started posting knockout losses in that the more correct, technically layered Wladimir seemed the more likely to achieve great things until he wasn’t – but then, of course, he did. Yudai may also yet prove to be the more storied of the two Shigeokas but he could use something definitive this weekend in a WBC interim title fight that has tricky written all over it. I suspect he will triumph, however, the question being whether he can achieve the stoppage. Given that Mendez is most likely to achieve his greatest success stalling on the inside, this will be a challenge. He will require adjustments to get there and will have to make a decision about whether or not to try to contest range, but he has the offensive capability to score the stoppage.

“As long as we both win,” has been the Shigeoka party line, spoken most recently by Yudai. “If not, it’s worth nothing.”

“The two of us can take over the world at the same time,” Ginjiro recently told nikkansports. “I’m happy that the two of us can start together and achieve our dreams at the same time.”

As likeable as they are skilled, the Shigeoka brothers are about to receive the most thorough examination of their fledgling careers.

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Arne’s Almanac: The First Boxing Writers Assoc. of America Dinner Was Quite the Shindig

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The first annual dinner of the Boxing Writers Association of America was staged on April 25, 1926 in the grand ballroom of New York’s Hotel Astor, an edifice that rivaled the original Waldorf Astoria as the swankiest hotel in the city. Back then, the organization was known as the Boxing Writers Association of Greater New York.

The ballroom was configured to hold 1200 for the banquet which was reportedly oversubscribed. Among those listed as agreeing to attend were the governors of six states (New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Maryland) and the mayors of 10 of America’s largest cities.

In 1926, radio was in its infancy and the digital age was decades away (and inconceivable). So, every journalist who regularly covered boxing was a newspaper and/or magazine writer, editor, or cartoonist. And at this juncture in American history, there were plenty of outlets for someone who wanted to pursue a career as a sportswriter and had the requisite skills to get hired.

The following papers were represented at the inaugural boxing writers’ dinner:

New York Times

New York News

New York World

New York Sun

New York Journal

New York Post

New York Mirror

New York Telegram

New York Graphic

New York Herald Tribune

Brooklyn Eagle

Brooklyn Times

Brooklyn Standard Union

Brooklyn Citizen

Bronx Home News

This isn’t a complete list because a few of these papers, notably the New York World and the New York Journal, had strong afternoon editions that functioned as independent papers. Plus, scribes from both big national wire services (Associated Press and UPI) attended the banquet and there were undoubtedly a smattering of scribes from papers in New Jersey and Connecticut.

Back then, the event’s organizer Nat Fleischer, sports editor of the New York Telegram and the driving force behind The Ring magazine, had little choice but to limit the journalistic component of the gathering to writers in the New York metropolitan area. There wasn’t a ballroom big enough to accommodate a good-sized response if he had extended the welcome to every boxing writer in North America.

The keynote speaker at the inaugural dinner was New York’s charismatic Jazz Age mayor James J. “Jimmy” Walker, architect of the transformative Walker Law of 1920 which ushered in a new era of boxing in the Empire State with a template that would guide reformers in many other jurisdictions.

Prizefighting was then associated with hooligans. In his speech, Mayor Walker promised to rid the sport of their ilk. “Boxing, as you know, is closest to my heart,” said hizzoner. “So I tell you the police force is behind you against those who would besmirch or injure boxing. Rowdyism doesn’t belong in this town or in your game.” (In 1945, Walker would be the recipient of the Edward J. Neil Memorial Award given for meritorious service to the sport. The oldest of the BWAA awards, the previous recipients were all active or former boxers. The award, no longer issued under that title, was named for an Associated Press sportswriter and war correspondent who died from shrapnel wounds covering the Spanish Civil War.)

Another speaker was well-traveled sportswriter Wilbur Wood, then affiliated with the Brooklyn Citizen. He told the assembly that the aim of the organization was two-fold: to help defend the game against its detractors and to promote harmony among the various factions.

Of course, the 1926 dinner wouldn’t have been as well-attended without the entertainment. According to press dispatches, Broadway stars and performers from some of the city’s top nightclubs would be there to regale the attendees. Among the names bandied about were vaudeville superstars Sophie Tucker and Jimmy Durante, the latter of whom would appear with his trio, Durante, (Lou) Clayton, and (Eddie) Jackson.

There was a contraction of New York newspapers during the Great Depression. Although empirical evidence is lacking, the inaugural boxing writers dinner was likely the largest of its kind. Fifteen years later, in 1941, the event drew “more than 200” according to a news report. There was no mention of entertainment.

In 1950, for the first time, the annual dinner was opened to the public. For $25, a civilian could get a meal and mingle with some of his favorite fighters. Sugar Ray Robinson was the Edward J. Neil Award winner that year, honored for his ring exploits and for donating his purse from the Charlie Fusari fight to the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund.

There was no formal announcement when the Boxing Writers Association of Greater New York was re-christened the Boxing Writers Association of America, but by the late 1940s reporters were referencing the annual event as simply the boxing writers dinner. By then, it had become traditional to hold the annual affair in January, a practice discontinued after 1971.

The winnowing of New York’s newspaper herd plus competing banquets in other parts of the country forced Nat Fleischer’s baby to adapt. And more adaptations will be necessary in the immediate future as the future of the BWAA, as it currently exists, is threatened by new technologies. If the forthcoming BWAA dinner (April 30 at the Edison Ballroom in mid-Manhattan) were restricted to wordsmiths from the traditional print media, the gathering would be too small to cover the nut and the congregants would be drawn disproportionately from the geriatric class.

Some of those adaptations have already started. Last year, Las Vegas resident Sean Zittel, a recent UNLV graduate, had the distinction of becoming the first videographer welcomed into the BWAA. With more and more people getting their news from sound bites, rather than the written word, the videographer serves an important function.

The reporters who conducted interviews with pen and paper have gone the way of the dodo bird and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A taped interview for a “talkie” has more integrity than a story culled from a paper and pen interview because it is unfiltered. Many years ago, some reporters, after interviewing the great Joe Louis, put  words in his mouth that made him seem like a dullard, words consistent with the Sambo stereotype. In other instances, the language of some athletes was reconstructed to the point where the reader would think the athlete had a second job as an English professor.

The content created by videographers is free from that bias. More of them will inevitably join the BWAA and similar organizations in the future.

Photo: Nat Fleischer is flanked by Sugar Ray Robinson and Tony Zale at the 1947 boxing writers dinner.

A recognized authority on the history of prizefighting and the history of American sports gambling, TSS editor-in-chief Arne K. Lang is the author of five books including “Prizefighting: An American History,” released by McFarland in 2008 and re-released in a paperback edition in 2020.
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Gabriela Fundora KOs Marilyn Badillo and Perez Upsets Conwell in Oceanside

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It was just a numbers game for Gabriela Fundora and despite Mexico’s Marilyn Badillo’s elusive tactics it took the champion one punch to end the fight and retain her undisputed flyweight world title by knockout on Saturday.

Will it be her last flyweight defense?

Though Fundora (16-0, 8 KOs) fired dozens of misses, a single punch found Badillo (19-1-1, 3 KOs) and ended her undefeated career and first attempt at a world title at the Frontwave Arena in Oceanside, California.

Fundora, however, proves unbeatable at flyweight.

The champion entered the arena as the headliner for the Golden Boy Promotion show and stepped through the ropes with every physical advantage possible, including power.

Mexico’s Badillo was a midget compared to Fundora but proved to be as elusive as a butterfly in a menagerie for the first six rounds. As the six-inch taller Fundora connected on one punch for every dozen thrown, that single punch was a deadly reminder.

Badillo tried ducking low and slipping to the left while countering with slashing uppercuts, she found little success. She did find the body a solid target but the blows proved to be useless. And when Badillo clinched, that proved more erroneous as Fundora belted her rapidly during the tie-ups.

“She was kind of doing her ducking thing,” said Fundora describing Badillo’s defensive tactics. “I just put the pressure on. It was just like a train. We didn’t give her that break.”

The Mexican fighter tried valiantly with various maneuvers. None proved even slightly successful. Fundora remained poised and under control as she stalked the challenger.

In the seventh round Badillo seemed to take a stand and try to slug it out with Fundora. She quickly was lit up by rapid left crosses and down she went at 1:44 of the seventh round. The Mexican fighter’s corner wisely waved off the fight and referee Rudy Barragan stopped the fight and held the dazed Badillo upright.

Once again Fundora remained champion by knockout. The only question now is will she move up to super flyweight or bantamweight to challenge the bigger girls.

Perez Beats Conwell.

Mexico’s Jorge “Chino” Perez (33-4, 26 KOs) upset Charles Conwell (21-1, 15 KOs) to win by split decision after 12 rounds in their super welterweight showdown.

It was a match that paired two hard-hitting fighters whose ledgers brimmed with knockouts, but neither was able to score a knockdown against each other.

Neither fighter moved backward. It was full steam ahead with Conwell proving successful to the body and head with left hooks and Perez connecting with rights to the head and body. It was difficult to differentiate the winner.

Though Conwell seemed to be the superior defensive fighter and more accurate, two judges preferred Perez’s busier style. They gave the fight to Perez by 115-113 scores with the dissenter favoring Conwell by the same margin.

It was Conwell’s first pro loss. Maybe it will open doors for more opportunities.

Other Bouts

Tristan Kalkreuth (15-1) managed to pass a serious heat check by unanimous decision against former contender Felix Valera (24-8) after a 10-round back-and-forth heavyweight fight.

It was very close.

Kalkreuth is one of those fighters that possess all the physical tools including youth and size but never seems to be able to show it. Once again he edged past another foe but at least this time he faced an experienced fighter in Valera.

Valera had his moments especially in the middle of the 10-round fight but slowed down during the last three rounds.

One major asset for Kalkreuth was his chin. He got caught but still motored past the clever Valera. After 10 rounds two judges saw it 99-91 and one other judge 97-93 all for Kalkreuth.

Highly-rated prospect Ruslan Abdullaev (2-0) blasted past dangerous Jino Rodrigo (13- 5-2) in an eight round super lightweight fight. He nearly stopped the very tough Rodrigo in the last two rounds and won by unanimous decision.

Abdullaev is trained by Joel and Antonio Diaz in Indio.

Bakersfield prospect Joel Iriarte (7-0, 7 KOs) needed only 1:44 to knock out Puerto Rico’s Marcos Jimenez (25-12) in a welterweight bout.

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‘Krusher’ Kovalev Exits on a Winning Note: TKOs Artur Mann in his ‘Farewell Fight’

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At his peak, former three-time world light heavyweight champion Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev ranked high on everyone’s pound-for-pound list. Now 42 years old – he turned 42 earlier this month – Kovalev has been largely inactive in recent years, but last night he returned to the ring in his hometown of Chelyabinsk, Russia, and rose to the occasion in what was billed as his farewell fight, stopping Artur Mann in the seventh frame.

Kovalev hit his peak during his first run as a world title-holder. He was 30-0-1 (26 KOs) entering first match with Andre Ward, a mark that included a 9-0 mark in world title fights. The only blemish on his record was a draw that could have been ruled a no-contest (journeyman Grover Young was unfit to continue after Kovalev knocked down in the second round what with was deemed an illegal rabbit punch). Among those nine wins were two stoppages of dangerous Haitian-Canadian campaigner Jean Pascal and a 12-round shutout over Bernard Hopkins.

Kovalev’s stature was not diminished by his loss to the undefeated Ward. All three judges had it 114-113, but the general feeling among the ringside press was that Sergey nicked it.

The rematch was also somewhat controversial. Referee Tony Weeks, who halted the match in the eighth stanza with Kovalev sitting on the lower strand of ropes, was accused of letting Ward get away with a series of low blows, including the first punch of a three-punch series of body shots that culminated in the stoppage. Sergey was wobbled by a punch to the head earlier in the round and was showing signs of fatigue, but he was still in the fight. Respected judge Steve Weisfeld had him up by three points through the completed rounds.

Sergey Kovalev was never the same after his second loss to Andre Ward, albeit he recaptured a piece of the 175-pound title twice, demolishing Vyacheslav Shabranskyy for the vacant WBO belt after Ward announced his retirement and then avenging a loss to Eleider Alvarez (TKO by 7) with a comprehensive win on points in their rematch.

Kovalev’s days as a title-holder ended on Nov. 2, 2019 when Canelo Alvarez, moving up two weight classes to pursue a title in a fourth weight division, stopped him in the 11th round, terminating what had been a relatively even fight with a hellacious left-right combination that left Krusher so discombobulated that a count was superfluous.

That fight went head-to-head with a UFC fight in New York City. DAZN, to their everlasting discredit, opted to delay the start of Canelo-Kovalev until the main event of the UFC fight was finished. The delay lasted more than an hour and Kovalev would say that he lost his psychological edge during the wait.

Kovalev had two fights in the cruiserweight class between his setback to Canelo and last night’s presumptive swan song. He outpointed Tervel Pulev in Los Angeles and lost a 10-round decision to unheralded Robin Sirwan Safar in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Artur Mann, a former world title challenger – he was stopped in three rounds by Mairis Briedis in 2021 when Briedis was recognized as the top cruiserweight in the world – was unexceptional, but the 34-year-old German, born in Kazakhstan, wasn’t chopped liver either, and Kovalev’s stoppage of him will redound well to the Russian when he becomes eligible for the Boxing Hall of Fame.

Krusher almost ended the fight in the second round. He knocked Mann down hard with a short left hand and seemingly scored another knockdown before the round was over (but it was ruled a slip). Mann barely survived the round.

In the next round, a punch left Mann with a bad cut on his right eyelid, but the German came to fight and rounds three, four and five were competitive.

Kovalev had a good sixth round although there were indications that he was tiring. But in the seventh he got a second wind and unleashed a right-left combination that rolled back the clock to the days when he was one of the sport’s most feared punchers. Mann went down hard and as he staggered to his feet, his corner signaled that the fight should be stopped and the referee complied. The official time was 0:49 of round seven. It was the 30th KO for Kovalev who advanced his record to 36-5-1.

Addendum: History informs us that Farewell Fights have a habit of becoming redundant, by which we mean that boxers often get the itch to fight again after calling it quits. Have we seen the last of Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev? We woudn’t bet on it.

The complete Kovalev-Mann fight card was live-streamed on the Boxing News youtube channel.

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