Undefeated World Boxing Association light flyweight ‘’super’’ champion Hiroto Kyoguchi showed a public workout on Oct. 19 at his Watanabe Boxing Gym in preparation for his title unification fight on Nov. 1 with World Boxing Council light flyweight champion Kenshiro Teraji of B.M.B. Boxing Gym at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama Prefecture.

The 28-year-old Kyoguchi went two rounds of sparring with a trainee of the gym and curtly said, ‘’My strategy is up to my opponent’s boxing.’’ But Kyoguchi’s trainer Takamutsu Kobayashi commended his sparring as he said, ‘’He can do boxing both outside and at close range as well.’’

According to Kyoguchi, ‘’Our condition on the fight day will be crucial.’’ To this end, Kyoguchi is planning to live in an isolated house so that Kyoguchi can live in the house with his team members, including Kobayashi, Watanabe gym manager Shinji Fukamachi and other person (s). Kyoguchi said he thinks he can build a good fighting condition by living together with these members based on his experience in his past two title overseas defenses —once in the United States and the other in Mexico.

World Boxing Organization’s minimumweight champion Masataka Taniguchi is also expected to join them.

Commenting on the fact that Kyoguchi is regarded as a strong favorite according to an overseas bookmaker’s betting odds, Kyoguchi said, ‘’I think I can puff up my chest in this respect. You have to make a title defense overseas so that you can upgrade your position overseas.’’

However, the 30-year-old Teraji’s personal trainer Kenta Kato of Misako Boxing Gym, who watched Kyoguchi’s sparring, told reporters, ‘’His (Kyoguchi’s) basic boxing style was what I had imagined. All Kenshiro has to do is to execute according to our fight plan. If he can do his kind of boxing, it will pay off.’’

Kyoguchi has a record of 15 straight wins, including 10 knockouts. Teraji has a 19-1 win-loss tally with 11 KOs.

It will be the first title unification fight between Japanese boxers in 10 years. Then WBC minimumweight champion Kazuto Ioka of Ioka Boxing Gym and WBA ruler Akira Yaegashi of Ohashi Boxing Gym fought in 2012 for the title unification fight, in which Ioka emerged victorious in a hard-fought battle.