Kazuto Ioka retires live on TV!
It's fair to say that boxing in 2017 has been unpredictable, wild, exciting, thrilling and a little, tiny bit crazy! Right up until the end of the year. The final story of which broke at around 23:20, local time, on News Year's Eve in Japan and was the sudden, albeit not totally unexpected, retirement of former 3-weight world champion Kazuto Ioka (22-1, 13) [井岡一翔] who announced his retirement live on part of the Kyokugen show, which he had regularly fought o [...]