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Boxing: Ishii betters Inoue record for Japan's fastest world title knockout
1+ week, 3+ day ago (327+ words) 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…...