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| Melvin Jerusalem remains the king of WBC's 105-pound division. Ivan Saldajeno (file photo) |
MANILA--Melvin Jerusalem successfully defended his WBC minimumweight title by repeating over Yudai Shigeoka on Sunday night at the Aichi Sky Expo in Japan.
Although he failed to score a knockdown in their rematch, Jerusalem made sure that his latest win would be cleaner than their first meeting, virtually turning the bout into his boxing clinic by landing the better shots than Shigeoka.
One judge had it 116-112, but the other two had it 118-110 and 119-109 blowouts favoring Jerusalem, who moved up to 24-3 in his career.
Shigeoka, on the other hand, dropped to 9-2.
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