Ken Shiro stops #1 Taconing, keeps WBC 108lb belt

[Ruthless-RKO]

https://fightnews.com/ken-shiro-stops-1 ... belt/49660

Fast-moving and quick-punching, unbeaten Japanese Ken Shiro (16-0, 9 KOs), 107.75, successfully made his sixth defense of the WBC light-flyweight belt when he swept the first three rounds with his hit-and-run tactics and scored a fine TKO victory over top-ranked Filipino Jonathan Taconing (28-4-1, 22 KOs), 108, at 1:00 into the fourth session on Friday in Osaka, Japan.

The baby-faced champ, 27, kept whipping the hard-punching but less accurate Filipino from the start as he made best use of his faster footwork that obviously kept Taconing from connecting vaunted solid southpaw lefts. Taconing occasionally tried to connect with his roundhouse lefts to the shifty champ, who, however, continually made himself a moving target.

The third saw an accidental butt that produced a gash over the right eyebrow of Taconing with a point deducted from the uncut champ due to the WBC rules. In round four, Ken sharply connected with a vicious right followed by a solid left hook, which badly decked the game Filipino to the deck.

Taconing managed to raise himself and attempted to go on, but his legs apparently betrayed his fighting spirit with referee Fran Garza (US) duly calling a halt at a right time.

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[TheBeast]

Friday 12, July 2019
EDION Arena Osaka, Osaka, Osaka, Japan
promoter Teiken Promotions - Akihiko Honda, Top Rank - Bob Arum


Ken Shiro 15 0 0
vs
Jonathan Taconing 28 3 1
World Boxing Council World Light Flyweight Title

Shiro by 4th round TKO

[Ruthless-RKO]

Final punch stats

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Fighter   Total            Jabs           Power 
Shiro     81 of 215 (38%)  17 of 97 (18%) 64 of 118 (54%) 
Taconing  73 of 265 (28%)  5 of 56 (9%)   68 of 209 (32%) 

The faster, more powerful Shiro (16-0, 8 KOs), 27, of Japan, known as the "Amazing Boy," landed punches almost at will against a stationary Taconing (28-4-1, 22 KOs), a 32-year-old southpaw from the Philippines.

In the third round, an accidental head butt opened a bad vertical cut over Taconing's right eye. Taconing was fading fast in the fourth round when Shiro landed a quick right and a short left hand on the chin that dropped him. Taconing got up quickly but he was in bad shape and unsteady, and referee Frank Garza waved off the fight at 1 minute.

Taconing was getting his second shot at a world title. In July 2016, he traveled to Mexico and lost a unanimous decision challenging then-junior flyweight titlist Ganigan Lopez, who lost the 108-pound belt to Shiro in his next fight.

https://www.espn.co.uk/boxing/story/_/i ... dary-title