By Jake Donovan

All fighters made weight ahead of a loaded tripleheader of title fights to take place Wednesday evening in Tokyo, Japan.

In the case of Jezreel Corrales, it took two tries, a two-hour sauna session and stripping down to his birthday suit in order to proceed with his super featherweight title consolidation bout with long-reigning champ Takashi Uchiyama. The visiting interim titlist Sent from my iPhone

While Uchiyama - who weighed 129.6-pounds on the first try - was able to rehydrate and relax, his opponent was literally forced to sweat out the overage. Corrales took to a nearby sauna during the allotted two-hour grace period before returning to the scales. With only a "Japanese Boxing Commission (JBC)" poster covering his bare essentials while on stage, the 24-year old boxer officially checked in at 129.8-pounds to allow the main event to proceed as scheduled.

Uchiyama (24-0-1, 20KOs) attempts the 12th defense of the super featherweight crown he won way back in 2010. The 36-year old local favorite has literally spent half his career in the title picture, having recently celebrated six full years as champ while emerging in recent years as the de facto leader in a division lacking a lineal champion.

Unification bouts have been short to come by as well. The closest Uchiyama comes to enjoying that is in Wednesday's mandated showdown with Corrales, a bout that was ordered by the World Boxing Association (WBA) in efforts to reduce the number of its title claimants. There are presently three in the super featherweight division alone, although that number will decrease by one assuming there is a winner to be had in Wednesday's headlining attraction,

Corrales (19-1, 7KOs) claimed the interim belt in his most recent bout, an 11th round stoppage of Juan Antonio Rodriguez last December at home in Panama. He fights in Japan for the first time in his career, bringing with him an 18-fight win streak dating back to his 3rd pro fight in June '10 - at which point Uchiyama had already won the title and made his first successful defense.

The winner will be mandated to face the last remaining WBA beltholder, which for now is Javier Fortuna. The unbeaten Dominican is being groomed for a summer title defense, although varying rumors have him facing either 2012 U.S. Olympic boxing team captain Jamel Herring - a lightweight prospect who is already training as if he's going down in weight to fight for the belt - or Camden (NJ)-based divisional gatekeeper Jason Sosa. 

As for the rest of the supporting cast, there were no issues in making weight.

In the co-feature, Kohei Kono (31-8-1, 13KOs) returns to the ring for the first time since his sensational 12-round war with Koki Kameda last October in the United States.

The 35-year old boxer weighed 114.9-pounds for the second defense of his second tour as super flyweight champ. He faces Thailand's Inthanon Sitchamuang (28-7-1, 17KOs), who weighed 114.4-pounds for his first title fight.

Ryoichi Taguchi (23-2-1, 10KOs) weighed 107.6 for the third defense of his junior flyweight crown. His challenger, Juan Jose Landaeta (27-8-1, 21KOs) - a 37-year old Venezuelan southpaw who now calls Japan home - came in at a trim and ready 107-pounds for conceivably his final shot at alphabet glory.

The show will air live on TV Tokyo.

Jake Donovan is the managing editor of BoxingScene.com. Follow him on his shiny new Twitter account: @JakeNDaBox_v2