Boxing: Ishii betters Inoue record for Japan's fastest world title knockout

YOKOHAMA - Takeshi Ishii rewrote Naoya Inoue's record for the fastest knockout by a Japanese male boxer in a world title bout on Wednesday as he seized the WBA minimumweight belt against Wilfredo Mendez of Puerto Rico.

First-ranked Ishii needed just one minute and five seconds to defeat his second-ranked opponent at Yokohama Buntai, five seconds faster than pound-for-pound star Inoue's WBA bantamweight world title win over Juan Carlos Payano of the Dominican Republic in October 2018.