MARFA LOSES IN OPBF TITLE BID
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Mon, 16 Jun 2008
Veteran Fabio Marfa has failed in his attempt to win the Orient Pacific Boxing Federation minimum weight title suffering a twelve round unanimous decision loss to Japan?s Toshikazu Waga at the International Conference Hall in Nagoya, Sunday.
Two of the judges had the champion Waga winning by a lopsided margin of 119-109 while the Filipino had it very much closer at 115-113 prompting well-known Japanese matchmaker, manager and media man and recent Hall-of-Fame inductee Joe Koizumi to question his scorecard.
With the win the 28 year old Waga who was coming off a ninth round TKO of Thailand?s Yoddoi Sithsoei last March 9 improved his record to 17-3 with 6 knockouts. Waga is ranked No. 14 by the WBC.
Marfa who lost by a seventh round TKO to Rollen del Castillo last February 2 dropped to 24-22-4 with 12 knockouts.
Koizumi reported that the game Marfa ?proved really tough? and withstood a series of solid combinations to the head and body by Waga in the ninth round.
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