44 years ago

Date: 2nd January 1978

Venue: Shinagawa Sports Land in Tokyo, Japan

Title: WBA World Flyweight Title

Promoter: None

Guty Espadas
( 29 - 2 - 5 )
Weight: 111 lbs

Kimio Furesawa
( 24 - 7 - 5 )
Weight: 112 lbs

Espadas makes the fourth successful defence of the WBA world flyweight title he won in October 1976 from Alfonso Lopez.

In an action-packed contest, the challenger suffers a cut over the left eye that continued to get worse until referee Rudy Jordan called a halt at 1:27 of the 7th round.