On December 31, 2015, Kosei Tanaka (5-0, 2 KOs), the strawweight WBO champion, defends his title against Filipino challenger, Vic Saludar (11-1, 9 KOs).
Kosei Tanaka is coming in to the fight on a 5-fight win streak with a 40% KO rate; his last fight was a unanimous decision win over Julian Yedras, 7 months and 1 day ago. Vic Saludar is on a 9-fight win streak with a 75% KO rate, with his last fight being a 1st round TKO win over Rizky Pratama, 3 months and 22 days ago.
This should be a confident win for Kosei Tanaka at 99-1 winning odds. Vic Saludar really doesn't have much to present against Tanaka.
Kosei Tanaka stopped Vic Saludar via KO in the 6th round of the 12-round world-title fight, and successfully defended his WBO strawweight title. Tanaka improves his record to 6-0 (3 KOs), while Saludar adds a loss to his record at 11-2.