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Japanese champion Shinsuke Yamanaka, left, sent a left to Mexican challenger Tomas Rojas in the sixth round of their WBC bantamweight title bout in Sendai, northeastern Japan today. Yamanaka knocked out Rojas in the seventh round to defend his title.
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Japanese champion Shinsuke Yamanaka looked at Mexican challenger Tomas Rojas after knocking him to the mat in the seventh round of their WBC bantamweight title bout in Sendai, northeastern Japan today. Yamanaka knocked out Rojas in the round to defend his title.
SENDAI, Japan » Shinsuke Yamanaka of Japan stopped Mexico’s Tomas Rojas 36 seconds into the seventh round today to retain the WBC bantamweight title.
Yamanaka (17-0-2, 12 KOs), making his second defense of the title he won in April, sent the challenger to the canvas with a left and Rojas (39-14-1) was unable to move for several minutes but left the ring under his own power.
In another bout, Japan’s Toshiyuki Igarashi (17-1-1, 10 KOs) outpointed Argentina’s Nestor Narvaes (19-1-2) in his first defense of his WBC flyweight title.
