Dynamic Glove 598: Nagahama vs. Toyoshima

The official Tapology discussion thread for the event!

Oh Stephen would you look at that result in the main event 👀👀👀
Almost as if I know some things🤣🤣

@Mikey1903

You got lucky mate, just like you always do lol!!!!! Good pick though!

Yup, some luck I've got. I'm so lucky that I have correctly backed 3 out of 4 underdogs on the last 4 major Japanese events(Mishiro v Ito, Ioka v Tanaka and this 1!). If only I could find UK Bookies to give me odds on these fight so I could cash in on this lucky streak!! Ha!
Don't worry, I'll get plenty wrong soon enough 

@Mikey1903

Just out of curiosity, do you know what happened with the other fights on the card? I can't seem to find the results for them.

Yes, I know a few of the results. Yugo Kun lost his debut by 6th Rd TKO in a fight he was winning handily. 
Jukiya iimura won by KO, I think Murakami won by Decision? And Ikegawa won too, not sure what method?

I'm going to update the results later. Probably tomorrow I'll do a load

@Mikey1903

Thanks! Sounds like a 50/50 card for me then lol

Told you, Japanese cards are the hardest to predict. Always full of competitive match ups. Most of the boxing cards you can be almost guaranteed that 95% of favourite win. It's kinda boring!
This is 1 of the main reasons I love Japanese boxing. Great fighters, great match ups

@Mikey1903

Us westerners could have these sort of cards as well if we stopped giving a **** about the 0.

Yup, you'd think that US boxing promoters would look at the UFC. I mean it's right in front of their eyes on ESPN! They see guys like Masvidal with 13 losses headlining PPVs and fans don't give a **** about losses because the fights are good. Just look at tonights UFC, Buckley went from getting KO'd by Holland to landing the KO of the year to getting highlight reel KO'd himself. Do you think MMA fans won't want to watch him anymore or that the loss will massively affect his career negatively? Nope! Because he's in fun action fights. That's what we want, entertainment. Not 1 guy getting whooped on! Haha

But, boxing has got so many issues (belts, promoters, broadcasters, match ups and more) I think it's beyond fixing. It's a shame because when it's good it's great. I still love a big World Championship boxing night, but unfortunately there's a lot of guff between the great!!! Hahaha 

@Mikey1903

The unfortunate thing for real boxing fans is guys like Floyd Mayweather put the emphasis on being undefeated, and now other boxers are obsessed with their record, just like him.

@Mikey1903

I know it's a strange idea but I think the only way that the belt situation could get fixed is if the boxers stopped caring about the belts and started showing the WBO, WBA, WBC, IBF some serious disrespect. Let's suppose that the Joshua VS Fury fight was made. If they signed the contract to fight but both fighters then vacated all their belts and had the fight for no belts, people would still watch it and the winner would still be considered the best Heavyweight in the world despite holding no belts (at least by proper boxing fans anyway). Giving the belts that level of disrespect would weaken the power of the sanctioning bodies and if all the boxers did that with title fights then at the sanctioning bodies would become irrelevant. That would never happen but it think that's about the only way to resolve the belt situation.