TANADA LOSES OPBF SUPER FEATHERWEIGHT TITLE IN FIRST DEFENSE
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Mon, 06 Dec 2010
Allan Tanada has lost his Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation super featherweight title by a 5th round TKO to Japan?s Masao Nakamura at the IMP Hall in Osaka, Japan on Sunday.
South Korean referee Soon Chul-Hwang who was also a scoring judge stopped the bout at 0:46 of the 5th round when Tanada who was earlier dropped by Nakamura and appeared groggy, failed to answer a couple of punches by the Japanese and merely covered up.
Well known TV boxing analyst Moy Lainez who was at ringside said Nakamura was bigger and taller than the 19 year old Tanada who, after furious exchanges in the opening round dropped Nakamura in the second round with a solid right straight.
Lainez said that the Japanese challenger was groggy but Tanada was so tight and eager to finish off the challenger that he missed several follow-up punches enabling Nakamura to escape.
In round three Tanada?s corner decided to use the jab effectively while studying Nakamura who came back to take the fourth round.
Lainez said that although Nakamura dropped Tanada in round five it was not a clean punch and more like a shove although he conceded that the Filipino was groggy and after a few punches thrown by Nakamura which Tanada didn?t counter and merely covered up, the referee called a halt.
At the time of the stoppage Nakamura was leading by one point, 38-37 on the scorecards of referee/judge Soon Chul Hwang and Japan?s Masahiro Noda while Filipino referee Virgilio Garcia had Tanada ahead also by a similar 38-37 margin.
Tanada?s manager Rommel Nazario and Lainez told Tanada to return to his hometown and enjoy the Christmas holidays with his family but ?not to forget to do his roadwork to stay in shape? confident that he is only a teenager and ?will surely come back.? However, their advice to Tanada was to move down to featherweight since he was too small to fight as a super featherweight.
Tanada won the OPBF vacant 130 pound crown with a 3rd round knockout over Japan?s Rikiya Fukuhara in Saitama last September 20. With the first loss of his career Tanada dropped to 10-1-2 with 5 knockouts while the undefeated 22 year old Nakamura kept a clean slate of 12 knockouts in 12 wins.
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