Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2016-03-04, good fight between Shinsuke Yamanaka and Liborio Solis: it gets three stars.The undefeated Wbc champion Shinsuke Yamanaka entered this fight with a pro boxing record of 24-0-2 (17 knockouts) and he is ranked as the No.1 bantamweight in the world. He fought twice last year beating Diego Ricardo Santillan (=Yamanaka vs Santillan) and Anselmo Moreno (=Yamanaka vs Moreno).
His opponent, the former Wba super-Flw champion Liborio Solis, has a record of 23-3-1 (10 knockouts) and he entered as the No.9 in the same weight class. He suffered two consecutive losses between 2010 and 2011, but since then he has won 14 fights defeating Jonathan Baat in his last one. Yamanaka vs Solis is valid for the WBC World bantamweight title (Yamanaka’s tenth defense). Watch the video and rate this fight!
Date: 2016-03-04
Where: Shimazu Arena, Kyoto, Japan
Division: bantamweight (118 lbs, 53.5 kg)
Title: WBC World bantamweight title
Yamanaka’s previous fight: Shinsuke Yamanaka vs Anselmo Moreno
Yamanaka’s next fight: Shinsuke Yamanaka vs Anselmo Moreno 2
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What a fight! In the first two rounds, Yamanaka demonstrated how skillful he is, particularly with his counter punches. In the 2nd, there was no knowckdown in my opinion, since Solis was the one who landed the punch! He just lost his balance. But after that, Solis came out of his corner in the third like a raging bull! I mean… just look at his eyes.. And it worked! The second knockdown in this round was an amazing counter punch as well.But then Yamanaka came back strong in the 4th and took control of the action in the ring. After that point, Yamanaka’s superiority in terms of technical skills just became more and more apparent as the fight went on. Strange moment in the 11th when they tangled up against the rope and almost ended up in the crowd. Very good fight overall!
Agreed
Darn good fight. Would watch a remtach.
Yamanaka needs to learn a left to the gut and also a right down hook.
Thriller. What a Champion Yamanaka has been. And Solis is a very, very good fighter. Two really tough defences in a row for Shinsuke.
Very entertaining and full of action fight. In spite of being shorter and fighting against a qualified southpaw Solis put a very good fight getting very nice knock downs. Yamanaka won the fight but get a little bit in trouble because his aggressive opponent that was always going ahead. As usual in Japan the judges score cards were all very favorable for the Japanese.