{"id":348009,"date":"2026-01-02T11:43:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T11:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/348009\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T11:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T11:43:19","slug":"kazuto-ioka-scores-knockout-in-bantamweight-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/348009\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazuto Ioka scores knockout in bantamweight debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ioka (32-4-1, 17 KO), who dropped back-to-back bouts against Fernando Martinez to end his super flyweight title reign, used his legendary body attack to break Ordosgoitti (15-2, 14 KO) down and ultimately <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ATokkers5\/status\/2006336821874319498\" rel=\"nofollow\">put him away with a gut-churning liver shot<\/a>. The 36-year-old subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/linares_ca_93\/status\/2006353075800539325\" rel=\"nofollow\">called out WBC champion Takuma Inoue<\/a>, floating a showdown on the undercard of Naoya Inoue vs Junto Nakatani this coming May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While the Martinez fights suggest that Ioka might struggle against the pressure of WBA champion Seiya Tsutsumi or the raw power of WBO titlist Christian Medina, who blew away the tough-as-nails Yoshiki Takei in September, I don\u2019t think anyone would object to seeing Ioka trade hands with this Inoue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ioka (32-4-1, 17 KO), who dropped back-to-back bouts against Fernando Martinez to end his super flyweight title reign,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,6588,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-348009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-boxing-results","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348009","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=348009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}