Brian Norman Jr. retains WBO welterweight title with fifth-round knockout Brian Norman Jr. (28-0) successfully defended his WBO welterweight championship by defeating Jin Sasaki (15-2-1) with a ...

Jin Sasaki has no memory of the night he attempted to make history as the first Japanese boxer to win a welterweight world title. On June 15, 2025, Sasaki (15–2, 10 KOs) was knocked out by ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Jin Sasaki fell to a fifth-round knockout defeat against WBO welterweight champion Brian Norman Jr. of the United States on Thursday, ...

Jin Sasaki fell to a fifth-round knockout defeat against WBO welterweight champion Brian Norman Jr. of the United States on Thursday, failing to become the first Japanese boxer to win a belt in the ...

Because Sasaki is going to make it a kill-or-be-killed kind of fight. Norman likes that kind of fight, but I suspect in this fight he’ll have to use his IQ a little bit, he’ll have to use his ...

Brian Norman Jr. defends his WBO Welterweight Championship against Japan’s Jin Sasaki on Thursday, June 19, 2025, at the Ota-City General Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.

Undefeated champion Brian Norman Jr faces once-beaten challenger Jin Sasaki, live from Ota City General Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan on Thursday, June 19. The pair battle it out in the main event, with ...

Sasaki, 23, tried to fight fire with fire in front of his home crowd, but that approach was punished in the fifth when Norman Jr landed a powerful left hook.