The IBF = International Boxing Federation's super-featherweight title match was held, and champion Kenichi Ogawa lost the knockout to the challenger British player, and was not the first title defense.
34-year-old Ogawa became the champion last November, beating South Africa's Azinga Fujire in the IBF super-featherweight title deciding match.
Ogawa, who was ranked 3rd in the world ranking and was challenged by Joseph Cordina of England, faced his first defense in Cardiff, England on the 4th.
In the second round, when Ogawa received a strong right straight from Cordina and went down, his leg was weak and he could not stand up and lost the knockout in the second round and fell from the throne. ..
After the match, Ogawa said, "I was rare, Cordina was strong, and that was all, but I was keenly aware of my own hardness, or lack of ability. It was my first time to fall down with my chin. I'm completely defeated. "