Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2015-12-31, pretty good fight between Ryoichi Taguchi and Luis de la Rosa: it gets three stars.Ryoichi Taguchi entered this fight with a pro boxing record of 22-2-1 (9 knockouts) and he is ranked as the No.7 light flyweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Donnie Nietes). He lost to Naoya Inoue in 2013 but since then he has collected four victories winning over Kwanthai Sithmorseng in 2015 (=Taguchi vs Sithmorseng).
His opponent, Luis de la Rosa, has a record of 24-5-1 (14 knockouts) and he entered as the No.84 in the same weight class but he won just one out of his last three fights, against Gustavo Cortes; before this bout he had lost to Alexis Diaz and Zou Shiming (=Shiming vs De la Rosa). Taguchi vs de la Rosa is valid for the WBA World light flyweight title (held by Taguchi); undercard of Takashi Uchiyama vs Oliver Flores. Watch the video and rate this fight!
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Date: 2015-12-31
Where: Ota-City General Gymnasium, Tokyo, Japan
Division: light flyweight (108 lbs, 49.0 kg)
Title: WBA World light flyweight title
Taguchi’s previous fight: Ryoichi Taguchi vs Kwanthai Sithmorseng
Taguchi’s next fight: Ryoichi Taguchi vs Juan Jose Landaeta
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Exciting fight which surprised me because ends quite abruptly due to one of the fighter has to abandoned it.
The first part of the fight was fully leaded by Luis who did a very good work fighting at the proper distance since he was the shorter guy. He was also the stronger puncher displaying a very good body work and probed to be an elusive target moving his head continuously being the clear winner up to.
However, from round 7 he started to fade with the Japanese taking a very strong lead mainly in rounds 8 and 9. Luis was almost knock down in round 9 and quit in round 10 may be because an injury or not able to recovery.
The Japanese fighter was reasonable good. I’m surprised because all the Japanese fighters are very good connecting liver punches, i guess is the best they do.
Lastima se quedo sin fisico este De La Rosa,en una muy buena pelea que estaba dando.Bien detenida por su esquina.Taguchi?,muy permeable a los boleados de derecha que le entraron todos.Buen boxeo,mala defenza.Saludos