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."I steeled myself before stepping into the ring. It was great the strong side of me emerged from the first round," said t…READ FULL ARTICLE
