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Yoshio Shirai was crowned Japan's first world champion in 1952. This is a list of Japanese boxing world champions who have won major world titles from the "Big four" governing bodies in professional boxing namely the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC), International Boxing Federation (IBF) and World Boxing Organization (WBO). [1]
All-Japan Professional Kentō Association (全日本プロフェッショナル拳闘協会) was founded in February 1931 in order to perform the establishment of championships and the development of professional boxers, repeated division and dissolution to become the current Japan Pro Boxing Association (JPBA).
Naoya Inoue (井上 尚弥, Inoue Naoya, born 10 April 1993) is a Japanese professional boxer.He has held multiple world championships in four weight classes, and is one of only three male boxers in history (along with Terence Crawford and Oleksandr Usyk) to become the undisputed champion in two weight classes in the "four-belt era".
The World Boxing Association (WBA) was founded in 1921 as the National Boxing Association (NBA), a national regulating body of the United States. On August 23, 1962, the NBA became the WBA, which today has its head office in Panama. [6]
Junto Nakatani (中谷潤人, Nakatani Junto, born 2 January 1998) is a Japanese professional boxer.He has held world championships in three weight classes, including the World Boxing Organization (WBO) flyweight title from 2020 to 2022, the World Boxing Organization (WBO) junior-bantamweight title in 2023, and the World Boxing Council (WBC) bantamweight title since February 2024.
Japanese: Shintaro Matsukura: K-1: 2023 0 Scottish: George Mann (76.2 kg) WBC Muaythai Feb 25, 2023 Morroccan: Amin Choukoud Enfusion: Nov 4, 2023 0 Albanian: Shkodran Veseli: FFC: Oct 12, 2018 0 Dutch: Chico Kwasi: KOK: Nov 20, 2021 0
Tomoya Tsuboi is a Japanese boxer. [1] He competed at the 2021 AIBA World Boxing Championships, winning the gold medal in the bantamweight event. [2] Tsuboi and Sewon Okazawa were the first Japanese gold medal winners at the 2021 championships. [3] [4]
After nine consecutive wins for Takeshi Inoue, he got a title shot for the vacant Japanese Boxing Commission Super Welterweight title against a more experienced Koshinmaru Saito at Korakuen Hall, in the seventh round Takeshi Inoue knocked Saito down and Saito didn't get to escape the ten-second count, Leading to Takeshi Inoue to be the new Japanese Boxing Commission Super Welterweight Champion.