Former Oriental champion Kawaguchi bounces back with a win!
The last 3 years have been tough for Japanese Bantamweight Yu Kawaguchi (26-8, 13) [川口 裕] who has twice lost narrow decisions in Japanese title fights and had a very short reign as the OPBF Bantamweight champion, before losing that title to Takahiro Yamamoto less than 4 months after winning it. The most recent of those set backs was a split decision loss to Kentaro Masua last June, in a battle for the Japanese title, and since then it seems that Kawaguchi has been pondering [...]