Tetsuya Hisada to defend Japanese title on July 16th

Back in April fight fans in Osaka saw Japanese Light Flyweight champion Tetsuya Hisada (31-9-2, 19) [久田 哲也] record his third defense, and over-come mandatory challenger Koji Itagaki [板垣幸司] as he continued to move towards a world title fight. The 33 year old Hisada suffered a pretty nasty looking facial injury in that bout, but his recovery appears to have been a success and today his team confirmed that he would be [...]