Anthony Olascuaga (proper) grins at Jonathan ‘Bomba’ Gonzalez after their Oct. 14 bout resulted in a No-Determination after simply 145 seconds in Tokyo. Photograph credit score: Naoki Fukuda
Anthony Olascuaga’s staff seeks a ruling that may present a extra definitive consequence to his first title protection.
Steps have been taken in hopes of fixing his No-Determination versus Jonathan ‘Bomba’ Gonzalez to a first-round technical knockout. Their Oct. 14 WBO flyweight title struggle ended after simply 145 seconds resulting from an earlier conflict of heads. Puerto Rico’s Gonzalez ultimately knowledgeable referee Robert Hoyle that he couldn’t proceed, at which level the struggle was halted.
Some extent of competition raised by Rudy Hernandez, Olascuaga’s coach and supervisor, was that Gonzalez was beforehand cleared to proceed and stop on his personal. Due to that, he believes there may be grounds for Olascuaga (7-1, 5 KOs; 1ND) to earn a stoppage victory.
“Within the first spherical of the struggle at 1:10 [left in the round] there was an unintentional headbutt which triggered a minimize on Gonzalez’s left eye,” Hernandez defined to the WBO in a letter obtained by The Ring. “[Referee] Robert Hoyle known as the ringside physician to test the minimize. [A]fter inspecting stated minimize he suggested [Hoyle] that Gonzalez may proceed to struggle. The competition resumed and Gonzalez saved combating for an additional 25 seconds roughly.
“[During] a clinch, he determined to not proceed and the referee… stopped the struggle. Since he didn’t wish to proceed after the physician suggested that he was OK to proceed my boxer Olascuaga ought to have been declared the winner by TKO. As a substitute, the supervisor of the struggle and the Japanese Boxing Fee (JBC) consultant Mr. Tsuyoshi Yasukochi suggested the referee that the struggle ought to be declared a No-Determination.
“We want to respectfully ask your group to evaluation and examine the result of this struggle and overturn the choice to a TKO win for Olascuaga.”
The request may in the end fall on deaf ears.
Sanctioning our bodies don’t have the ability to overturn an official resolution. Their involvement is often to power a rematch or invalidate a title reign when the belt is gained or defended underneath doubtful circumstances.
The official ruling resides with the JBC, who must evaluation and rule on whether or not to overturn the decision. All that may be executed by the WBO is to evaluation the struggle and make its advice to the presiding fee.
Gonzalez entered the struggle because the necessary challenger. Olascuaga is understandably involved that he could be certain to a rematch because the Oct. 14 struggle was rendered moot given the result.
There may be better need for Olascuaga to additional unify the flyweight division. Three of the 4 112-pound belts have been at stake throughout Teiken Promotions’ two-day, seven title struggle extravaganza in Tokyo.
Seigo Yuri Akui (21-2-1, 11 KOs) retained his WBA belt in an Oct. 13 factors win over Thailand’s Thananchai Charunphak (25-2, 15 KOs). The identical present noticed Kenshiro Teraji (24-1, 15 KOs) declare the vacant WBC flyweight title in a ninth-round knockout of Cristofer Rosales (37-7, 22 KOs).
Olascuaga’s lone defeat got here in a ninth-round stoppage to Teraji final April in a last-minute project.
Fittingly, it got here instead of Gonzalez and noticed Olascuaga struggle at junior flyweight. Teraji retained his RING, WBC and WBA 108-pound championship with the win.
Gonzalez was the WBO junior flyweight titlist and in line for the unification bout that night. Nevertheless, he fell unwell and was compelled to withdraw. Gonzalez and Olascuaga are each promoted by All-Star Boxing, which made for a straightforward swap that night time.
Olascuaga, who’s co-promoted by Teiken, subsequently scored back-to-back knockout wins. Included amongst them was his third-round stoppage of Riku Kano (22-5-2, 11 KOs) on July 20 to win the WBO flyweight strap.
