{"id":271192,"date":"2025-11-19T07:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271192\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T07:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:06:11","slug":"anthony-olascuaga-gets-new-opponent-seigo-yuri-akui-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271192\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Olascuaga gets new opponent, Seigo Yuri Akui returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kuwahara (14-2, 9 KO) is actually ranked higher than Iimura with the WBO, sitting at no. 4 after a strong run on the domestic scene. The only losses of his career came against Seigo Yuri Akui (21-3-1, 11 KO) and five of his last six wins have come inside the distance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Olascuaga (10-1, 7 KO), who\u2019s beaten Hiroto Kyoguchi and Juan Carlos Camacho-Rivera during his 2025 campaign, is now set for his first three-fight year since 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Akui himself will also return to action for the first time since last March\u2019s unification shootout with Kenshiro Teraji, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/2025\/3\/13\/24384740\/kenshiro-teraji-stops-seigo-yuri-akui-final-round-unify-flyweight-titles-boxing-news-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which saw him stopped in the 12th while up on two cards<\/a>. With Teraji gunning for gold at 115 and Akui ranked no. 3 with three sanctioning bodies, we could see him back in the title picture before too long if he gets past the monstrous challenge of TBA next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kuwahara (14-2, 9 KO) is actually ranked higher than Iimura with the WBO, sitting at no. 4 after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-271192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}