{"id":17172,"date":"2026-05-05T02:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/17172\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T02:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:38:15","slug":"yuito-moriwaki-claims-opbf-super-middleweight-title-over-deok-no-yun-at-tokyo-dome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/17172\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuito Moriwaki Claims OPBF Super Middleweight Title Over Deok No Yun at Tokyo Dome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Yuito Moriwaki Claims OPBF Super Middleweight Title Over Deok No Yun at Tokyo Dome<\/p>\n<p>TOKYO, JAPAN \u2014 The Super Middleweight landscape in the Asia-Pacific region shifted on May 2nd, 2026, as local contender Yuito Moriwaki ascended to the throne. In a high-stakes championship bout at the iconic Tokyo Dome, Moriwaki delivered a career-defining performance to dethrone the defending champion, Deok No Yun, and claim the OPBF Super Middleweight Title.<\/p>\n<p>The Fight: A Tactical Battle of Wills<\/p>\n<p>Promoted by OHASHI Promotion, the event brought elite-level boxing to the heart of Tokyo. Entering the ring as the #3 ranked challenger, Yuito Moriwaki faced a formidable champion in South Korea\u2019s Deok No Yun.<\/p>\n<p>The contest was a technical and physical chess match from start to finish. Yun controlled the pace in several rounds with aggressive flurries, but Moriwaki\u2019s disciplined defense and precise counter-punching resonated with the judges. Both fighters displayed immense heart, pushing the fight to the final bell.<\/p>\n<p>The Decision<\/p>\n<p>The official scorecards reflected just how closely contested the championship was. After ten rounds of action, the bout was decided by a Split Decision (SD):<\/p>\n<p>Judge Surat Soikrachang: 97-93 (for Yun)<\/p>\n<p>Judge Hyun Woo Lee: 94-96 (for Moriwaki)<\/p>\n<p>Judge Katsuhiko Nakamura: 94-96 (for Moriwaki)<\/p>\n<p>With a 2-1 majority, the referee, Nobuto Ikehara, declared Yuito Moriwaki the winner and the New OPBF Super Middleweight Champion.<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_182314\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"182314\" style=\"\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yuito Moriwaki Claims OPBF Super Middleweight Title Over Deok No Yun at Tokyo Dome TOKYO, JAPAN \u2014 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-17172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tokyo","8":"tag-japan","9":"tag-tokyo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}