Coming off her controversial loss by choice to new Worldwide Boxing Federation (IBF) Bantamweight World Champion Shurretta Metcalf (14-4-1, 2 KOs) final October, three-time, two-division world champion Miyo Yoshida (17-5) returns to the ring February 1st towards Slovakian tremendous bantamweight Beata Dudek (5-5, 4 KOs).
Yoshida vs. Dudek is a scheduled 8-round combat on a card introduced by Prime Time Promotions at Prudential Heart in Newark, New Jersey.
COMPUBOX statistics for final October’s Yoshida vs. Metcalf 2 have been closely in favor of Yoshida, who misplaced her IBF Girls’s Bantamweight World title, as a result of choose’s doubtful scores of 99-91 (Robin Taylor), Robert Perez (97-93) and Max DeLuca (96-94).
Based on COMPUBOX, Yoshida completed the combat forward 96-64 total, 49-17 in jabs, 30-16 in physique punches and 8-0-2 in a round-to-round breakdown of complete connects.
Yoshida’s masterful protection saved her opponent at a distance, leading to a big proportion of Metcalf’s punches falling wanting connecting, hanging nothing however air.
General, Yoshida landed an astonishingly 50-percent extra punches (96-64) than Metcalf, along with having a a lot greater accuracy proportion, almost thrice as nice at 22-percent to her opponent’s 9-percent.
Yoshida’s supervisor, New York-based lawyer Keith Sullivan, filed an attraction to the IBF, requesting a right away rematch. The IBF reviewed Sullivan’s authorized submitting and supporting statistical knowledge and took the uncommon transfer of sustaining Yoshida within the #1 rating, and ordering her as Metcalf’s obligatory challenger, demanding Metcalf to defend her crown towards Yoshida.
“I’m very grateful to the IBF and my supervisor, Mr. Sullivan,” Yoshida stated about her current standing. “Trying again on the final match, I’m horrified by the scoring outcomes, particularly 99-91. We had a superb sport plan to deal with the peak and attain benefit of my opponent and we have been faulted by the judges for executing it completely.”
The principle distinction between her final and upcoming fights is her psychological strategy to win so clearly that everybody will agree when her hand is raised in victory. Yoshida’s unconcerned about risking her obligatory title shot versus Metcalf by taking this combat with Dudek, who fights out of Hungary.
“Final 12 months,” she defined, “I solely fought one match. There was a niche between matches. With a purpose to be in prime situation, I need to combat constantly, and I’ll undoubtedly be able to win this match.
“My opponent (Dudek) is one weight class greater and the identical top as Metcalf. So, I needed this combat for these causes, a much bigger and taller opponent to arrange me for the re-match. Dudek is an opponent to not be underestimated. I’ve been coaching laborious to maintain up my spirits. I began preventing at flyweight and this will probably be my first time preventing at 121 kilos, however I’ve braced myself for it.”
“Miyo had an incredible camp. She is going to placed on an incredible show of her boxing ability and energy. Her focus and dedication to her coaching is inspiring,” famous her head coach Jimmy Sosa, who trains her together with his brother Aurelino and conditioning coach, Sergiy Korchynskyy.
“By taking this combat, Miyo dangers dropping the title shot however she was adamant she needed to maintain busy and needed a taller, heavier, and stronger opponent,” added Miyo’s supervisor Keith Sullivan. “I used to be more than happy with the IBF choice. I filed that inside 48 hours of the choice. God prepared, Miyo emerges Saturday victorious then the title shot is subsequent.”