OSAKA -- Champion Masamori Tokuyama will fight Cho In Joo of South Korea in Seoul for the World Boxing Council super-flyweight title, Hideo Kanazawa, head of the gym where the champion trains, said Friday. Kanazawa named the South Korean capital the venue for the May 20 fight a day after revealing that plans to stage the title match in Pyongyang were "not possible."
Tokuyama is a pro-Pyongyang Korean resident of Japan whose Korean name is Hong Chang Soo. Tokuyama took a unanimous points decision from Cho last August to win the WBC belt, then won a one-sided fight against fifth-ranked challenger Akihiko Nago of Japan in December for his first title defense.
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