CEBU CITY, Philippines -- The reigning World Boxing Organization (WBO) world super flyweight king Kazuto Ioka outworked four-division world champion Donnie "Ahas" Nietes to score a
Kazuto Ioka and Filipino Donnie Nietes during Tuesday’s weigh-in.
Nietes’ defeat means that the losing spell for the Philippines in world title bouts continues after Ioka pretty much outdueled the Filipino star in a bout best described as a “chess match,” with both boxers carefully calculating their moves from the first to the final bell. However, as the fight progressed, Ioka kept on pressing forward, tagging Nietes with sharp jabs and combinations to the head and body.In the seventh round, Nietes was noticeably moving away from the charging Ioka, throwing fewer punches while the latter connected with jabs and straight combos.Nietes showed some fight in the last three rounds by landing cleaner punches but wasn’t enough to impress the judges.
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