Noynay Stops Shimizu to Retain WBO Asia Pacific Belt Friday in Osaka, Japan

By Carlos Costa

In a thrilling hard-fought battle, Filipino world-ranked WBO # 6 “The Jawbreaker” Joe Noynay of the Gabriel Bebot Elorde Jr. Gym survived and early scare to stop tough Japanese knockout artist world-ranked IBF # 10 Satoshi Shimizu (8-1, 8 KO’s) in the sixth chapter of their hot war tonight (Friday July 12) at the EDION Arena in Osaka, Japan.

With the exciting win, Noynay successfully retained for the first time the WBO Asia Pacific Super Featherweight title that he won last April in this very same stage.

Not at easy win for the 5′ 8″ Noynay (18-2-1, 7 KO’s) who in the first stages of the fight was rocked down to the canvas and on the brink of getting knocked out. The bell might have saved the Filipino.

But in the subsequent rounds, the Jawbreaker — born in Bogo, northern Cebu — punished and busted black the right eye of the Japanese forcing him to give the back in signal of surrender during the action of stanza six.

An awesome win for the southpaw Noynay who undoubtedly improves his world-ranking. He is currently # 6 in the WBO.
Noynay, 23, was assisted in his corner by experienced coach Artcher Villamor of the Elorde Gym.

Joe Noynay’s fight was a supporting bout for the main event in which Ryota Murata stopped Rob Brant to regain his WBA Middleweight Regular World Title.

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