On August 16, 2018, Ryosuke Iwasa (25-2, 16 KOs), the super-bantamweight IBF champion, defends his title against Irish challenger, TJ Doheny (19-0, 14 KOs).
Ryosuke Iwasa is coming in to the fight on a 6-fight win streak with a 59% KO rate; his last fight was a unanimous decision win over Ernesto Saulong, 5 months and 15 days ago. TJ Doheny is on a 19-fight win streak with a 73% KO rate, with his last fight being a 2nd round TKO win over Mike Oliver, 4 months and 30 days ago.
The winning odds are at 75.3-24.7 in favor of TJ Doheny. It is going to be a competitive fight and Ryosuke Iwasa will put up a very good fight, but Doheny will prevail.
TJ Doheny defeated Ryosuke Iwasa via unanimous decision and wins the IBF title — in his first world-title fight. Doheny improves his record to 20-0, while Iwasa adds a loss to his record at 25-3.