World Boxing Council (WBC) bantamweight Champion Shinsuke Yamanaka of Japan won a unanimous decision over Australia’s Vic Darchinyan on Friday in Tokyo, Japan. All judges scored the bout, 117-111, 116-112 and 116-112, in favor of Yamanaka, who improved to 16-0-2 with 11 knockouts. Darchinyan dropped to 37-5-1 with 27 KOs.
“It pretty much went according to plan,” the 29-year-old Yamanaka said. “I was able to land some good punches and take the momentum from him as the bout went on.”
Darchinyan dominated the early rounds, but Yamanaka opened a cut over his opponent’s right eye with a left in the fifth round and Darchinyan wasn’t able to recover.
After watching the fight on Youtube, seemed closer than I thought. Darchinyan was swinging like a madman till the end. Yamanaka seems like a well schooled fighter despite only 18 pro fights.
I think it’s safe to say Vic isn’t as strong at Bantamweight as he was below the class. He can still give a lot of contenders a tough fight but he’s finished as an elite player.
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