Ryuichi Funai vacates Japanese title!

Last December fight fans saw Ryuichi Funai (29-7, 20) [船井 龍一] record his second defense of the Japanese Super Flyweight title, with a quick win over the over-matched Shota Kawaguchi (21-9-1, 9) [川口勝太]. Today, only a few weeks later, we saw the announcement that Funai had now vacated the title, rather than take part in the 2018 Champion Carnival. Becoming the second fighter to vacate a Japanese belt already this year, fo [...]