(JAN 1, 2020) Last night on
New Year's Eve, there was a live boxing card that took place at
the Ota-City General Gymnasium, in Tokyo, Japan, there were two
female bouts featured on this card.
In one bout, super
flyweight Miyo Yoshida, 114¾, of Tokyo, Japan, won a ten-round
unanimous decision over Li Ping Shi, 112¼, with Miyo winning
a ten-round unanimous decision. Shi was defending her WBO Super
Flyweight title. Final judges scores were 99-90, 97-92, and
98-91.
Yoshida had won the
WBO Super Flyweight title in June of 2019, when she defeated
Casey Morton by a ten round unanimous decision. Yoshida
fought three times in 2019, and she improved her boxing record
to 14-1-0 (0KO).
In a second female
bout on the card, flyweight southpaw Yume Hirayama, 111½, of
Fukuoka, Japan, continues to be undefeated bringing her record
to 5-0-0 (0KO), after defeating Marina Sayama, 111¾, of
Tokyo, Japan. The two were fighting a six rounder for the
vacant Japanese Flyweight Title, with judges scoring the bout,
55-59 on all cards.
Hirayama fought two
times in 2019, two times in 2018, and one time in 2017 when she
made her pro debut, fighting Marina Sayama for the the first
time, winning by a four-round unanimous decision. Sayama
has also been fighting professional since 2017 and has now
accumulated a boxing record of 4-2-1 (2KO).