New champion alert: Former PED user Kenichi Ogawa captures vacant title

By Scott Shaffer

28/11/2021

New champion alert: Former PED user Kenichi Ogawa captures vacant title

Kenichi Ogawa W12 Azinga Fuzile... In the Madison Square Garden co-feature, Japan's Kenichi Ogawa became the new IBF super featherweight champion, dropping South Africa's Azinga Fuzile three times on the way to a  unanimous decision. Official scores were 115-110 (twice) and 114-111 for Ogawa to claim the vacant title. A former drug cheat, Ogawa is now 26-1-1 but also has a no contest after testing positive in a fight vs. Tevin Farmer in 2017. Fuzile is now 15-2.