WBO#4 Nakano Halts IBF#5 Dlamini

By Joe Koizumi

Photos By Naoki Fukuda

Only once beaten in his previous IBF eliminator with Ra’eese Aleem last November, WBO#4 feather Mikito Nakano (15-1, 14 KOs), 126, impressively dropped IBF#5 Lerato Dlamini (21-4, 12 KOs), 126, from South Africa, on three occasions and finally scored a fine TKO victory at 0:58 of the fourth round in a scheduled ten on Wednesday in Tokyo, Japan. The hard-hitting Japanese southpaw exploded his trademark devastating lefts, flooring the skillful footworker in the first...