Uncrowned\u2019s No. 7 pound-for-pound fighter<\/a>, and WBO flyweight titlist Anthony Olascuaga (9-1, 6 KOs). In the end, it came down to the best style fit and the ability to improve.<\/p>\nAdvertisement<\/p>\n
\u201cI helped MIMI with that decision,\u201d noted sportswriter Yuriko Miyata told Uncrowned while also pulling double duty as Hiruta\u2019s translator. \u201cShe is very good at boxing from the outside but also needed to improve her infighting skills. That is Manny\u2019s area of expertise.<\/p>\n
\u201cManny Robles and Rudy Hernandez are good friends. Rudy, of course, has the great reputation for all of the fighters from Japan he has helped become world champion. But for MIMI, I felt like Manny was the right choice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hiruta\u2019s first fight with Robles came in a Jan. 17 technical decision over Maribel Ramirez at Commerce Casino in Commerce, California. She was well on her way to a stoppage victory \u2014 or at least a 10-round shutout \u2014 when the fight was stopped after eight rounds due to a cut suffered by Ramirez from a clash of heads.<\/p>\n
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Hiruta is already fighting for the third time this year and has shown her improved technique at close range in her battering of Ramirez and decisive handling of the highly ranked Carla Merino in their battle between Ring\u2019s top two super flyweights.<\/p>\n
For all the expectations she set out for her boxing career even as a teenager, this was one of the few that actually felt like a dream.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never imagined the day that I could win the Ring Magazine championship, because it wasn\u2019t a thing for women when I first began to box,\u201d Hiruta said. \u201cBeing crowned Ring champion gave me goosebumps. It was a very honorable moment in my career, one that I will never forget.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yet, it was just the latest achievement in a long list of goals she plans to accomplish when all is said and done.<\/p>\n
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Next up is taking down her first unbeaten opponent. Mexico\u2019s Cardenas proved her worth in her most recent bout, an eight-round, split decision win over undefeated Bree Howling just two months ago on a June 7 DAZN show from Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe appears to be a very aggressive fighter and a hungry challenger,\u201d observed Hiruta. \u201cBut I plan to control everything in the ring. It motivates me to have challengers like this, which bring out the best in me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mizuki \u201cMimi\u201d Hiruta didn\u2019t even have to think about her answer when asked of the legacy she hopes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,54175,941,1187,54173,54174,5149,85,8079],"class_list":{"0":"post-68351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-hiruta","12":"tag-japan","13":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","14":"tag-manny-robles","15":"tag-mizuki-hiruta","16":"tag-shohei-ohtani","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-uncrowned"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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