JUNTO NAKATANI added to his repute as considered one of boxing’s pound-for-pound finest by crushing Petch Sor Chitpattana inside six rounds.
The three-weight world champion dominated the early levels in opposition to his opponent, who had by no means been stopped, earlier than going by way of the gears looking for his third straight stoppage win.
Chitpattana was dropped for the primary time in his profession halfway by way of the sixth and appeared to have recovered properly. However, with only a second left of the spherical, a tough left hand put the customer over for the second time and referee Laurence Cole waved it off with no rely.
WBC bantamweight champion Nakatani is now 29-0 with 22 KOs, and because of this victory, all three of his bouts at 118lbs have ended inside the space.
Chitpattana’s final go to to Japan was again in December 2018, when he was outpointed by Takuma Inoue of their Tokyo conflict for the WBC interim bantamweight title. It was the one defeat of his 77-fight profession so far.
However he has boxed and gained 28 instances within the six years since, incomes himself this shot at Nakatani’s full title.
This was the second defence of the belt Nakatani gained by way of sixth-round knockout of Alexandro Santiago in February. He wanted simply 147 seconds to see off Vincent Astrolabio in July however it was not such an early night time this time round.
He was, nevertheless, hurting the challenger often within the early rounds and appeared to have little respect for no matter was coming again.
And Nakatani made the breakthrough midway by way of the sixth spherical, when Chitpattana succumbed to a relentless mixture, which had began with a left hook.
He was up in time to beat the rely however Nakatani was throughout him once more. The Thai customer did properly to fireside again beneath stress and gave the impression to be in place to make it till the top of the spherical.
However then Nakatani, considered one of boxing’s most deadly finishers, discovered the end when he uncorked one other crunching left hand which despatched Chitpattana right down to the canvas face first. Cole waved it off right away, with an official time of two:59 recorded.
