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Defending champion Shinsuke Yamanaka (L) of Japan and challenger Malcolm Tunacao of Philippines fight during their World Boxing Council (WBC) bantamweight title boxing match in Tokyo April 8, 2013. Yamanaka won by TKO at the 12th round. (REUTERS)
Former flyweight champion Malcolm Tuñacao has failed to capture the bantamweight title under the World Boxing Council (WBC), as he lost to unbeaten Japanese champion Shinsuke Yamanaka in Tokyo on Monday.
According to the website www.fightnews.com, Tuñacao’s record declined 32-3-3 with 20 knockouts, as Yamanaka dropped him and was stopped at 1.57 into the 12th round.
Yamanaka’s record improved to 18-0 with 13 knockouts.
A native of Mandaue City, in the central Philippine province of Cebu, Tuñacao was a professional southpaw boxer in the flyweight division, after being a national champion several times in the amateur ranks.
He had said that it was poverty that prodded him to venture into the pro arena, hoping that he could earn more money to give his wife and three children a better future.
Nicknamed ‘Eagle Eye’, Tuñacao turned pro along with ‘kababayan’ (countryman) Randy Suico, formerly a WBC super featherweight champion, who lost to Aussie Jarrod ‘Left Jab’ Fletcher in their PABA middleweight bout in Victoria, Australia last Friday night, April 6. (PABA stands for Pan Asian Boxing Association).
Boxing news source www.eastsideboxing.com said Fletcher, 29, finished Suico on the fifth round, where the Australian caught the Filipino cleanly on numerous occasions. Suico’s trainer threw in the white towel after the fifth round.
Fletcher’s record improved to 31-9-1 with 26 knockouts while Suico’s dropped to 15-1 with 9 knockouts.
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