On paper it was difficult to split the two men, it turned out it was equally difficult in the ring with the two fighting to a split decision that narrowly, and somewhat controversially, favoured the Japanese man who fighting at home.
As well as the bout in Japan we also had on in Slovakia as Hungarian Peter Erdos (8-4-2, 3) managed to shut out the debuting Zsolt Magyar (0-1) who was also from Hungaru.