MIURA RETAINS WBC TITLE IN BRUTAL FIGHT BUT SUFFERS LIVER INJURY
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Mon, 19 Aug 2013
Japan?s Takashi Miura retained his WBC super featherweight title in a brutal title fight with Mexico?s Sergio ?Yeyo? Thompson in the picturesque resort city of Cancun but was rushed to hospital after the champion vomited blood.
Reports from Cancun said doctors at the Playa Med Hospital found that Miura had a liver injury and would undergo further evaluation.
In a fight that the WBC reported was ?total warfare? ended with Miura retaining his title by a twelve round unanimous decision was ?uncompromisingly fierce? and while the champion suffered a liver injury the challenger?s right eye was almost closed ?from several clashes of heads and a welter of punches.?
Judge Fernando Barboza of Mexico scored the fight 114-111 , Oren Shellenberger of Dallas, Texas 114-110 and Joel Scobie of Canada 113-112 all for the southpaw Miura.
After a quiet first round a clash of heads in the second, started the swelling under Yeyo's right eye, and then he walked into a big right from southpaw Takashi and went down real hard, doing well to recover.
The WBC reported that Yeyo was landing well and by the fifth Takashi's nose was bleeding. But the Japanese champion was getting the better of the exchanges driving his valiant Mexican opponent back with piercing right leads and ruthlessly following them up with thumping lefts to the head. A flurry of punches in the sixth punctuated with an almost full stop of a left hook decked Yeyo, who again did extremely well to weather a full blown typhoon breaking over his head.
The WBC said ?For several glorious minutes in the eighth, Yeyo who'd been severely under the cosh, turned the tables. A massive right hook dropped Takashi like a sack of cement overboard and even though he got up, he was all at sea. The crowd which was on its feet created an incredible din which was shaking the very foundations of the Plaza de Toros! Before Takashi showed why he's such a great champion effectively fighting back with calculated venom.?
Yeyo got a moment or so of respite in the eleventh while a flapping tape on a glove was rectified by his corner. Both men who'd thrown and landed cascades of boulder like punches were desperately tired. But in twelfth and final round Yeyo rallied and again went back into attack mode, before being tied up and mauled in several clinches. They embraced at the end, in a mutural admiration and respect reserved only for great fighters.
Takashi Miura deservedly got the unanimous decision in his first title defense and a trip to Cancun, he'll never forget!
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