Newly crowned IBF Super-Featherweight champion hunting unifications in 2022
Eddie Hearn and Matchroom are delighted to announce IBF World Super-Featherweight
Kenichi Ogawa has signed a multi-fight promotional deal in association with Teiken Promotions.
Ogawa (26-1-1 18 KOs) landed the vacant IBF belt at the end of November with a superb victory over the dangerous Azinga Fuzile at the Hulu Theater in Madison Square Garden, New York, flooring the South African in the fifth and final rounds to punctuate a career-best showing to earn his first World title.
The 33 year old Japanese will target a first defense in 2022 and will be hunting down unification bouts with fellow champions Shakur Stevenson (WBO), Oscar Valdez (WBC) and Roger Gutierrez (WBA) next year, and cannot wait to return to action as soon as possible.
“I am happy to be joining Eddie Hearn and Matchroom,” said
Ogawa. “It was a great night in New York, and I was so thrilled to win the belt in a great fight with Fuzile.
“I look forward to getting back in the ring soon to defend the title, on my way to win more belts. With Teiken Promotions, Matchroom and DAZN, we will be able to make big fights and perform all over the world.
“I am so excited for the fights that can come in 2022 and beyond.”
“I am delighted to welcome Kenichi to the team,” said promoter
Eddie Hearn. “Kenichi was fantastic in his World title win over Azinga Fuzile in New York, an exciting all-action display that really caught the eye on a spectacular night in the Big Apple.
“There are some huge fights to be made in the Super-Featherweight division and Kenichi can excite fans all over the world – I am sure that he will get the chance to add more belts to his IBF strap in 2022.”
. Tank should have BEEN in the ring with guys like loma and gary russell jrs. Even a ryan garcia fight is ridiculous at this stage in his career, he should be fighting the VERY best between 130-140
he has shown me more than the others but im a skills first type of guy I don't get 
because a guy has some power(not saying you are but boxing in general)...im surprised wilder didnt return that energy..all he had to do was acknowledge he was beaten and then let the shyt come out about the air in his chest and all that and dude would have been golden...he has some rebuilding to do in 2022
these guys looking at him like food till they get to Australia and have to deal w him, 20k drunk cacs yelling all types of shyt and a biased ref that will let him foul all night and use a steel chair out this bytch 
. We know how Australia get down 
damn near all of team krack in there
the handspeed gawd, the longest reigning world champion in boxing blesses us at the beginning of 2022 with a title defense
