Jose Pedraza dethroned WBO lightweight champion Raymundo Beltran, and WBO super bantamweight champion Isaac Dogboe crushed Hidenori Otake (31-3-3, 14 KOs) by a 1st round knockout on Top Rank Boxing on ESPN+ on Saturday night at the Gila River Arena in Glendale, Arizona.
The countdown is over and everything will be decided in the ring at the Gila River Arena in Glendale, Arizona later Saturday night when Isaac ‘Royal Storm’ Dogboe of Ghana attempts a first defence of the WBO junior featherweight title against Japanese veteran, Hidenori Otake after both boxers made the required weight ahead of fight night.
Dogboe-Otake & Beltran-Pedraza will air live on ESPN and ESPN Deportes at 10:30 p.m. ET, with undercard action streaming live beginning at 7:30 p.m.
As the countdown to his maiden world title defence against Hidenori Otake at the Gila River Arena on August 25 edges ever closer, Isaac ‘Royal Storm’ Dogboe has taken time off his busy training regime to send a message to his countrymen, expressing his appreciation and gratitude for their unending support as well as to inform them of the new RStv (Rising Star TV) app created by his father/trainer, Paul Dogboe’s Rising Star Africa Promotions.
WBO junior featherweight champ, Isaac ‘Royal Storm’ Dogboe is sending out a strong warning to Japanese veteran, Hidenori Otake to get ready to be knocked out cold when the two clash in Glendale, Arizona three weeks hence on a Top Rank Promotions co-main event along with WBO lightweight titlist, Raymond Beltran’s own maiden title defence against Jose Pedraza.
WBO junior featherweight champion, Isaac ‘Royal Storm’ Dogboe says he is very wary of the intentions of next opponent, Hidenori Otake of Japan who he defends the world title for the first time against on August 25 but insists he will he up in arms ready to deal with the threat.
The countdown to Isaac ‘Royal Storm’ Dogboe’s first WBO junior featherweight title defence against Hidenori Otake of Japan is officially on after Top Rank Promotions announced on Monday that tickets for the bout scheduled for the Gila River Arena in Glendale, Arizona, USA on August 25 will begin selling this Thursday.
Ray Beltran and Isaac “Royal Storm” Dogboe will head to the desert on Aug. 25 for their first title defenses.
In the main event at Gila River Arena in Glendale, Arizona, Beltran, who resides in nearby Phoenix, will defend the WBO lightweight title against Jose “Sniper” Pedraza, a former junior lightweight world champion looking to bring another world title home to Puerto Rico.
WBO junior featherweight champion, Isaac ‘Royal Storm’ Dogboe and his dad/trainer, Paul Dogboe are urging countryman, Rafael Mensah to believe in God, go all out and fight for what belongs to him to make himself, his family and Ghana proud on Saturday night when the man nicknamed ‘Sweet Pea’ steps into the ring against Alberto Machado of Puerto Rico for the WBA super featherweight title of the world.
Isaac ‘Royal Storm’ Dogboe’s first defence of his world title against Japan’s Hidenori Otake has been tentatively scheduled for Glendale, Phoenix, Arizona, USA on the same previously announced date of August 25, 2018.