Sagawa to defend the title against Maruta on Feb. 11

By LITO DELOS REYES

JAPANESE featherweight champion Ryo Sagawa of Tokyo will defend his title against Hinata Maruta of Kawanishi on Feb. 11 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

The 26-year-old Ryo (10W-1L-0D, 5KOs) will be making his 3rd title defense on the vacant title he won against Reiya Abe by a unanimous decision last Sept. 13, 2019.

Ryo retained his crown by knocking out Yuri Takemoto in the 6th round last Aug. 13, 2020, at Korakuen Hall.

Hinata, 23 (10W-1L-1D, 8KOs), on the other hand, had no fight last year. But he had two bouts in 2019.

He first had a unanimous decision against Coach Hiroto last May 1 then TKO’d Takenori Ohashi in the 3rd round last Sept. 26 both at Korakuen.

Hinata was the former World Boxing Council Youth World bantamweight champion in 2016-2017.

Meanwhile, Ryu Horikawa (3W-0L-1D, 1KO) will fight Yudai Shigeoka (2W-0L, 0D, 1KO) for the vacant Japanese Youth light flyweight title in the supporting bout.

It is promoted by Takashi Misako of Misako Promotion

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