I have seen Takuma had lost to Nordine Oubaali in 2019 but well he did able to patch it up into further more wins. As a champion then of course
belittling you opponent would really be that imposing such risks and it isnt something that would really be recommended for someone to do so.
Good thing that this fight had been pushed through now despite of that postponement.
The fighter that was KO'd by an old Donaire. So if we consider that as a basis to determine is capability, we can say that he isn't really a champion in terms of skills. Takuma become a champion but all his fights is in Japan, he was probably favored by the judges or their promoters are good in cherry picking his opponents, but Ancajas is different, he was once a champion and I believe Takoma is gonna lose in the hands of the Filipino.
Perhaps the better comparison should be against his brother? And if this is where we are looking at, obviously they are very far from each other as Naoya is more of a complete fighter than Takuma. And I think everyone is not sold on Takuma, yes he is the champion, and yes he is the favorite in this fight.
It's understandable why he is the favorite here, he is the champion and is fighting in front of his home crowd. But that was on the bookies, nothing should be significant in terms of the actual fight and how Ancajas would feel as he knows he will be fighting on the territory of the champion, so he needs to have an impressive performance, so if he could not deliver a knockout, and obvious domination might merit a win for him. I'm talking about domination because if it's a close fight, it's not safe for him.
But we shouldn't look down at Jerwin talent and accomplishments as well. He is indeed a former champion, and his tenure is very long. So it's just a matter of adjustment for him and it seems that he has settled to this new division as he doesn't need to squeeze his bigger frame to 115 lbs. We all know that it's one cause of fighter losing fight as they will be dehydrated just to make the weight requirement and it has adverse effect on them and that's why Ancajas lost his belt.
Of course, no one is looking down on his achievement, in fact, I am on his side with this fight and I'm optimistic he could deliver a convincing win even in Japan. Although there hasn't been controversies proven on Japanes fighters choose to fight in Japan, but you can't take it to the dirty mind of the people to speculate, because they'll think it's a homecourt advantage, and it could possibly rig in favor of their own fighter.