El 'Chihuas' retiene título ante el japonés Takayama

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Channel: Box Azteca

Views: 836,518

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Keywords: Francisco Rodríguez (Boxer), Chihuas, Katsunari Takayama, título Paja de la OMB, FIB, decisión unánime, Boxing (Sport), box, box azteca, la casa del boxeo, eduardo lamazón, Julio César Chávez Sr. (Boxer), TV Azteca (TV Network), azteca deportes, 12 rounds

Id: 4psaXcl2DsE

Length: 107min 28sec (6448 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 20 2014

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NOTE: This video also contains another fight between Tomas Rojas & Irving Berry. If you wish to get to the main event, skip to the 53:00 mark of the video.

Our next side fight from the road to "The Wet Dream Rematch" is Francisco Rodriguez Jr vs Katsunari Takayama, for the unified IBF & WBO Minimumweight titles. Only two fights after losing to Roman Gonzalez, Rodriguez would move down from Flyweight to Minimumweight, and get his first title shot against then undefeated WBO Champion, Merlito Sabillo; knocking him down in the 2nd before stopping him in the 10th. Rodriguez would immediately afterwards, jump into a unification fight with then IBF Champion & Minimumweight legend, Katsunari Takayama.

Starting his career in 2000, Takayama would build up a record of 14-1 before getting shot a world title, against the WBC Champion, Isaac Bustos; out punching & outboxing him to a unanimous decision to win the title. However he would immediately lose it afterwards to former champion, Eagle Den Junlaphan. Takayama would later pick up the interim WBA Minimumweight title, but would end up losing to full WBA champ, Yutaka Niida, who would eventually lose that title to none other than Chocolatito. Takayama would then take on Gonzalez himself, but lost by a pretty wide margin. After a no-contest & a unanimous decision loss to Nkosinathi Joyi back-to-back for the IBF title, and then losing a relative journeyman by the name of Mateo Handig, it was pretty easy to assume that Takayama's career was pretty much over; However he immediately bounced back and travelled down to Mexico to take on new IBF titleholder, Mario Rodriguez, beating him by unanimous decision in what was a pretty good fight, to finally win another world title. Then after 2 successful defenses, Takayama would take on Rodriguez to unify the division.