It wasn’t a classic but, as is often the case, unification brought out some of the best of both men involved. In the end, Japan’s Ryochi Taguchi made his seventh WBA title defense, and added the IBF ...

On New Year’s Eve, both IBF world light flyweight champion Milan “El Metodico” Melindo (37-2-0, 13KOs) and WBA world light flyweight champion Ryoichi Taguchi (26-2-2, 12KOs) will get a crack at ...

THIS time, the weight was hardly a concern for Milan Melindo. The reigning International Boxing Federation junior flyweight champion breezed through the official weigh-in on Saturday for his title ...

Junior flyweight title unification fights are rare, but one will take place when Milan Melindo and Ryoichi Taguchi, the top two 108-pound boxers in the world, meet Dec. 31 at the Ota-City General ...

Japanese world champions Ryoichi Taguchi and Kosei Tanaka retained their respective WBA light-flyweight and WBO minimumweight belts. At the Ota-City General Gymnasium in Tokyo, Taguchi (23-2-1-KO10) ...

Perhaps because he does not have an I'm-a-tough-guy type of character, Ryoichi Taguchi is somewhat underestimated. But you can't overlook the fact that he has defended his WBA light flyweight title ...