On January 31, 1988, Kyung-Yung Lee (11-0, 4 KOs) gets a shot at the strawweight WBC title held by Hiroki Ioka (9-0, 5 KOs).
Hiroki Ioka is coming in to the fight on a 9-fight win streak with a 55% KO rate; his last fight was a unanimous decision win over Mai Thomburifarm, 3 months and 13 days ago. Kyung-Yung Lee is on a 11-fight win streak with a 36% KO rate, with his last fight being a 2nd round KO win over Masaharu Kawakami, 7 months and 17 days ago.
The winning odds are at 93.4-6.6 in favor of Hiroki Ioka. It is going to be very difficult for Kyung-Yung Lee to win this fight.
Hiroki Ioka stopped Kyung-Yung Lee via TKO in the final round of the 12-round world-title fight, and successfully defended his WBC strawweight title. Ioka improves his record to 10-0 (6 KOs), while Lee adds a loss to his record at 11-1.