The card will be part of a triple world-title event on April 8 at the Ryogoku sumo arena with WBC bantamweight champion Shinsuke Yamanaka of Japan also fighting top-ranked Malcolm Tunacao of the Philippines and Mexico’s WBC super featherweight champion Gamaliel Diaz taking on Japan’s Takashi Miura.
It will be Igarashi’s second defence of the title he wrested from Sonny Boy Jaro of the Philippines in July last year. He now has 17 wins, including 10 KOs, against one defeat and one draw. “My goal is to keep winning. I’m going to prepare for the bout by doing what I must do to win it and be ready 100 percent when I go to the ring,” said Igarashi.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 24th, 2013.
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