Shokichi Iwata vs Jairo Noriega (13-10-2024) Full Fight

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00:00All right, gentlemen, you received the instructions in the dressing room, know what I expect?

00:08Good, clean fight.

00:09Golpe legales, legal punches here for you, legal punches here for you.

00:15Touch gloves good to both of you.

00:27Junior, the third man in the ring tonight, Christina Poncher, Nico Ali-Walsh here with

00:31you for the first of our four world title fights tonight.

00:35This for the vacant WBO world championship.

00:38Number one contender, Sokichi Iwata in the black trunks with silver gloves.

00:44The number two contender, Jairo Noriega representing Spain, wearing the purple trunks with blue

00:52trim.

00:53You can see Iwata already starting off with a great rhythm.

00:58Normally, when I was watching footage of him, he was a bit of a slow starter.

01:02It doesn't look like he's taking that route this night.

01:05Iwata coming in tonight as a five year pro and he had a really solid amateur career before

01:12turning pro and he got wins against Kosei Tanaka and Tsukuma Inoue as an amateur.

01:18He's only had 14 pro fights, but in those 13 wins, he's has one loss.

01:23Ten of those wins have been by knockout.

01:24In fact, since his only career loss to Jonathan Bomba Gonzalez back in 2022, he has been on

01:30a four fight knockout streak.

01:33Definitely looking to make it five tonight, but we'll have his hands full against Jairo

01:37Noriega, who doesn't know how to lose.

01:39He's 14 and 0 as a pro, not as many knockouts and not as active as Iwata, but a fighter

01:45that's kind of been under the radar.

01:47If you're not, you know, a boxing fanatic sickle, if you will, but he's a darn good

01:53fighter.

01:54He has a very entertaining style.

01:55And as you can see already, he likes to throw punches and flurries, kind of got that bouncy

02:01up and down style.

02:02You'll see him on his toes quite a bit.

02:03You know, when I was watching footage of Noriega, I noticed that he worked better when he was

02:09pressuring his opponent, not when he's working off the back foot.

02:13Iwata's forcing him to work off his back foot right now.

02:15So that may present problems later on.

02:18A quick with the jab upstairs, Noriega trying to work the jab down to the body.

02:30At this kind of level, they're both just feeling each other out.

02:35This round is very important.

02:37We'll see kind of where the fight's going to go just based off this round.

02:42Both of them have a lot of that kind of side to side upper body movement.

02:45Nice hook there from Noriega.

02:46Just taps the shoulders there of Iwata.

02:48I love Iwata's rhythm.

02:51Down to the body with the right hand for Noriega.

02:54And got a good jab in there too through the guard.

03:00That's where he works best, Noriega, when he's the one pressing forward.

03:07Down to the body with the left hand that brings it up top.

03:10That was a good left hook from Noriega.

03:12Absolutely.

03:12And slips under the right hand counter from Iwata.

03:15And then nice combination there.

03:17Fantastic start here for the Spaniards.

03:21Great shot again with the left hand there.

03:26Yeah, the tide has changed at the latter end of this round.

03:28Noriega looks like he's really coming on now.

03:3010 seconds, stop at the bell.

03:33That left hook has found a home early for Noriega

03:36as he tries to shoot it as an uppercut there.

03:41Good.

03:47That round ended very well for Noriega, actually.

03:54I agree, as we take a look at some of the highlights here

03:56with the left hand that did some significant damage

04:01in the first round.

04:02Not damage in terms that you want to be hurt,

04:04but damage in terms of the effectiveness through it.

04:08Anything that lands is doing damage.

04:11Appreciate that, partner.

04:29Down to the Noriega corner now.

04:33Fantastic start for the Spaniard,

04:35who is fighting for the first time out of his native country.

04:39And to fight for the first time away from Spain

04:42and have it be for a world title is really something.

04:45Yeah, it is.

04:46That's tough.

04:47It's a lot of pressure.

04:49But some people wake up to opportunities like that.

04:53Oh, there's no turning down, I'm sure.

04:54When you get that phone call, it's an opportunity

04:57that I'm sure he couldn't pass up, especially

05:00in only his 15th pro fight.

05:02You might see his best performance this fight just

05:05based off of the stakes alone.

05:07This is what everyone wants, this opportunity.

05:10Every boxer wants this opportunity.

05:19Iwata getting countered a bit.

05:20And there's that little up jab you were talking about,

05:23Nico, with the left hand, as Noriega, again,

05:25off to a solid start here in round two so far.

05:28Yeah, Noriega constantly looks for counters,

05:30not just in this fight, but in his previous fights.

05:33He's always looking for counters.

05:34The difference is, now he's remaining

05:37active between those counter shots.

05:39Like, he's probing his jab.

05:42He's finding a good rhythm right now.

05:44Good right hand to the body.

05:45Landed there for Iwata.

05:51And that right hand landed through the guard.

05:53And then he comes with the left hook.

05:54Some of that hand speed on display for this boundary.

05:56Then that up jab again.

05:58That up jab is finding a home every time.

06:00He's going to keep using it until Iwata catches on.

06:04Down to the body with the left.

06:06And back to the jab, as Iwata having a little more success.

06:16Especially when he starts a combination with the jab

06:18or doubling up on the jab.

06:24Iwata's just going to have to keep him.

06:26That mid-range is perfect for Iwata.

06:29Oh, nice body shot with the right hand.

06:31Here we go.

06:32Knocks.

06:34That was a good left hook for Iwata.

06:35Yeah, absolutely was.

06:42Action heating up here in round two.

06:44Under a minute to go.

06:45Iwata's catching him with some sneaky right uppercuts.

06:49Noriega's leaning his head over his front knee.

06:53Especially when he throws that overhand right.

06:55He throws it like such a looping shot

06:57that he's kind of caught a little bit off balance

06:59with his kind of chin hanging over that front foot.

07:04And those overhand rights, when they land,

07:06they do some serious damage.

07:09But again, he's in a compromising position, Noriega,

07:11when he's leaning over like that.

07:14That time Iwata caught the second shot

07:17with the right glove.

07:19He's kind of getting the timing down a bit more,

07:21these Noriega looping shots.

07:34A stern warning for kind of holding down his head

07:36while he shot that right hand there for Iwata.

07:46And I think Raul Calles Jr. gave him a earful

07:49on the way to the corner too as well.

07:54Noriega's really, every shot is with bad intentions

07:57right now and he's finding a home with that overhand right.

08:01Same with Iwata.

08:03That was that sneaky right uppercut I was talking about.

08:05It can land in the body or the head.

08:09That's gonna do damage if Noriega continues

08:11to lean over his front knee like that.

08:33Round three.

08:34I think that round was a little closer

08:36than the first round was.

08:37Yeah, definitely.

08:39Iwata having a little bit more success there.

08:42As we get into round three of the scheduled 12-rounder,

08:44Christina Poncher, Nico Ali-Walsh here with you.

08:46The first of four world title fights tonight

08:49from the Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.

08:53I don't know if I got it.

08:55I don't know if I got it.

08:57The vacant spot for Iwata.

09:00The vacant light flyweight world title is on the line

09:06and I love when vacant fights are fought for

09:09with the number one versus the number two contender.

09:12Exactly how it should be.

09:14Those are always tough fights.

09:20The difference here that I'm seeing

09:22between Iwata and Noriega is Iwata's starting

09:25all his combinations with a jab.

09:28Noriega seems like he's looking for a big shot

09:31every time he lets his hands go.

09:36Good shot to the body.

09:42Yeah, I mean, Noriega is really not even using his jab

09:47as much to open up these combinations.

09:49He's just coming, like you said,

09:51with these shots with bad intentions, these hooks.

09:54Yeah, exactly.

09:54Bombs away, he's leading with left hooks,

09:56he's leading with the overhand rights.

10:00That's great and all, but when he misses,

10:02that saps his energy.

10:06Especially for a fighter that has not really

10:08been that active.

10:09Nico, he had a fight in March of this year,

10:11but only fought once in 2023, once in 2022,

10:14and then twice back in 2021.

10:17Yeah, you gotta realize this is round three.

10:19We've got 12 rounds, it's gonna be hard to maintain

10:23this kind of output.

10:26For another, you know, nine rounds.

10:30That right hand connected there for Noriega.

10:34Iwata looks to turn up and land that uppercut

10:37with the right hand.

10:38Beautiful shot.

10:41Strong jab there, jab down to the body for Noriega.

10:45Good three-punch combination for the Spaniard.

10:50There's that kind of a jump uppercut.

10:52Those uppercuts are going to land.

10:54Those are gonna land on Noriega.

10:56That left hand just landed for Noriega again.

10:59I mean-

11:00Relentless pressure right now.

11:01Absolutely.

11:04The only question is how long is this going to last?

11:09How long can you maintain that output?

11:12Beautiful shots, uppercuts with the right hands

11:14from Noriega, excuse me, from Iwata.

11:18That was that right uppercut.

11:20That started that.

11:22And Noriega is absolutely unsteady on his legs.

11:28Iwata landed two beautiful shots.

11:3010 seconds to work here in round three.

11:37A solid into the round and a knockdown score

11:40for Iwata.

11:41And another one at the belt.

11:43Over.

11:46That's it, face down, and it's a knockout victory

11:50for Sokichi Iwata.

11:54Wow.

11:56At the belt, Nico.

11:57That was a left hook.

11:59That is started, the right uppercut started that onslaught.

12:05He never recovered from that first knockdown.

12:08He had 10 seconds to work and then got,

12:09I mean, it was like belt knockout.

12:12Wow, let's see the replay on that.

12:18That was beautiful.

12:19I mean, him being, Iwata being calculated,

12:22just waiting for the perfect moment.

12:26Look at that, the right uppercut started it.

12:32Beautiful shot.

12:36I mean, the second one was kind of grazing

12:38on the back of the head.

12:39He never really recovered.

12:40Had about 10 seconds to work.

12:42Scores a knockdown, or a knockout, excuse me, at the belt.

12:46And Sokichi Iwata is now the WBO Light Flyweight

12:52World Champion.

12:53Amazing.

12:54I don't think that shot on the back of the head,

12:56he obviously didn't mean to throw that.

12:58I don't think it was that much of a cutoff point.

13:13And finally, a bit of a smirk there.

13:17You would think your first time winning a world title,

13:19you would be a little bit more.

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