On March 1, 2018, Shinsuke Yamanaka and Luis Nery met again in an immediate rematch.
Yamanaka came in to the fight on a 1-fight losing streak with a 63% KO rate, and was fighting after a gap of 6 months and 14 days. Nery was on a 25-fight win streak with a 76% KO rate, and fighting after a layoff of 3 months and 25 days.
Luis Nery made very easy work of Shinsuke Yamanaka in the rematch, stopping the champion via TKO in the 2nd. Nery improves his record to 26-0 (20 KOs), while Yamanaka adds a loss to his record at 27-2-2.
On August 15, 2017, the 34-year-old WBC and The Ring bantamweight world champion, Shinsuke Yamanaka (27-0-2, 19 KOs), faced a 22-year-old Mexican boxer Luis Nery (23-0, 17 KOs), in a title defense fight.
Yamanaka came in to the fight on a 22-fight win streak with a 65% KO rate, and was fighting after a gap of 5 months and 13 days. Nery was on a 23-fight win streak with a 73% KO rate, and fighting after a layoff of 5 months and 4 days.
Luis Nery stopped the champion via TKO in the 4th round of the 12-round world-title fight, winning the first world titles of his career, and is crowned the new WBC and The Ring bantamweight champion. Nery improves his record to 24-0 (18 KOs), while Yamanaka adds a loss to his record at 27-1-2.