Reigning WBO World super bantamweight champion, Isaac Dogboe, has revealed what he will do to Japan’s Hidenori Otake on August 25th.
Dogboe will be making his first defence of his WBO strap on the aforementioned date at the Gila River Arena in Glendale, Arizona.
“I know Otake is very strong, 13 years old older than i am. He has got a great record and nothing can’t be taken away from him, ” Dogboe said.
“We know that sometimes strength will have to bow down to wisdom and come August 25th, everyone will see a different Isaac Dogboe all together, we are coming with fire, it is going to be fireworks and i can’t wait.
“I like to bang. I don’t get hit, i guess he is going to be eating a lot of punches.”
Dogboe (19-0, 13 KOs) established himself as one of boxing’s best young champions in 2018 with a pair of signature victories. He knocked out Cesar Juarez in the fifth round on Jan. 6 in his hometown of Accra, Ghana, to win the interim WBO junior featherweight title. On April 28 in Philadelphia, Dogboe won the title in dramatic fashion, surviving a first-round knockdown to stop Jessie Magdaleno in the 11th round in a Fight of the Year contender. A 2012 Olympian, Dogboe had a rapid rise through the pro ranks, winning the WBO Oriental and WBO Africa featherweight titles en route to junior featherweight title contention. Boxing is in the Dogboe lineage as his father/trainer, Paul Dogboe, once served as a boxing coach and a physical instructor in the British Army.
Otake (31-2-3, 14 KOs), from Tokyo, has been a professional for more than 12 years and is riding a nine-bout winning streak dating back to Nov. 22, 2014. On that day, he challenged Scott Quigg for the WBA super bantamweight title, dropping a unanimous decision. He won the vacant Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF) title on March 17, 2017 with a unanimous decision against Jelbirt Gomera. Otake defended the OBPF title three times, most recently scoring a 10th-round TKO over Brian Lobetania in Tokyo on March 13.