1.
TV RING - BOTH BOXERS OUT OF CORNERS - KOBAYASHI LIGHT PANTS - BOTERO IN DARK PANTS - BOTH MEN IN CENTRE OF RING BOXING.
0.08

2.
ANGLE SHOT - JAPANESE BOXER ATTACKING.
0.14

3.
GV CROWD - PAN TO RING - JAPANESE BOXER ON THE ATTACK.
0.28

4.
TV JAPANESE BOXER MOVING IN.
0.36

5.
CU WOMEN WATCH.
0.40

6.
TV BOTH MEN IN CORNER FIGHTING.
0.49

7.
ANGLE SHOT - BOTH MEN HITTING EACH OTHER.
0.57

8.
LV JAPANESE BOXER IN CORNER ATTACKING.
1.00

9.
TV BOTH MEN FIGHTING.
1.07

10.
STV JAPANESE BOXER KNOCKS DOWN BOTERO - PAN TO KOBAYASHI WALKS TO CORNER.
1.15

11.
SV REFEREE LOOKING AT BOTERO AND STOPS FIGHT.
1.20

12.
SV REFEREE HOLDING UP KOBAYASHI'S HAND (WINNER).
1.23

13.
SV KOBAYASHI GOES TOWARDS BOTERO.
1.31

14.
LV KOBAYASHI RECEIVING TROPHY.
1.37



Initials MA/VS/JH/PF


SPORT: BOXING

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Background: THE WORLD JUNIOR LIGHTWEIGHT BOXING CHAMPION, HIROSHI KOBAYASHI, HAD LITTLE TROUBLE IN DEFEATING ULISEES BOTERO, A BOXER FROM COLOMBIA, WHO BASED IN LOS ANGELES.

IT WAS A 10-ROUND, NON-LITTLE FIGHT AT TOKYO'S KORAKUEN GYMNASIUM. BOTERO IS RANKED NUMBER ONE CONTENDER BY THE WORLD BOXING ASSOCIATION. HIS PLAN FROM THE BELL WAS TO GO FOR A KNOCK-OUT AND THEN CLAIM A TITLE FIGHT AGAINST THE JAPANESE. BUT HE RECKONED WITHOUT THE TITLE HOLDER'S FAST, NIMBLE FOOT WORK AND HIS CONSISTENT PUNCHING.

THE JAPANESE ENDED THE FIGHT IN THE 2ND. MINUTE OF THE SIXTH ROUND. AT THE WEIGH-IN KOBAYASHI WAS 132 POUNDS AGAINST BOTERO'S 122 1/2.

IT WAS KOBAYASHI'S SECOND NON-TITLE FIGHT SINCE HE BECAME WORLD CHAMPION LAST DECEMBER. HE DEFENDED THE TITLE IN MARCH AND DREW WITH RENE BARRIENTOS. HE PLANS A 2ND. TITLE DEFENCE IN OCTOBER - IN TOKYO.