Undefeated World Boxing Association light flyweight ‘’super’’ champion Hiroto Kyoguchi of Watanabe Boxing Gym, who has been training in Dallas in the U.S. state of Texas in preparation for his title defense against Axel Aragon Vega of Mexico in the city on March 13 (14 Japan time), and a group of his six other members took PCR tests for novel coronavirus infections on March 8 (local time), and the all proved negative, according to Watanabe Boxing Gym.

The 27-year-old Kyoguchi conducted the day’s training at a boxing gym especially set up on the fourth floor of the hotel in the afternoon assisted by his chief trainer Takamutsu Kobayashi.

He had four rounds of shadowboxing, six rounds of mitt hitting and two rounds of heavy bag hitting, the gym said, adding his weight before the training was 52 kgs. (114.64 lbs.), which is considered an ideal pace to make the light flyweight limit of 48.97 kgs. (108 lbs.) five days before the fight.

The scheduled 12-rounder will be held at the American Airlines Center in Dallas under the aegis of sporting event promotions company Matchroom Boxing of England.

According to the Watanabe gym, Kyoguchi ate sandwiches in the morning, seaweed rice, white rice, steamed vegetables, fruit, a boiled egg and fermented soybeans for lunch and is planning to take ‘’soba’’ noodles and steak for supper, which is a menu list ideal at this time of day.

Kyoguchi last fought in October 2019 as he had to cancel his planned title defense against Thai’s Thanongsak Simsri on Nov. 3 last year in Osaka, western Japan, as Kyoguchi and his chief trainer proved positive in PCR tests for the COVID-19 immediately before the fight.

Kyoguchi has 14 straight wins, including nine KOs. The 20-year-old Vega, ranked 10th in the division, has a 14-3-1 win-loss-draw tally with eight knockouts.

The fight will serve as the chief supporting card for the highly touted title unification match between WBA super flyweight ‘’super’’ champion Roman ‘’Chololatito’’ Gonzales and World Boxing Council champion Juan Francisco Estrada of Mexico.　Photo by Watanabe Boxing Gym