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Masao Ohba (大場政夫, Ōba Masao, October 21, 1949 – January 25, 1973) was a Japanese professional boxer. He became the WBA flyweight World Champion on October 22, 1970, defeating the reigning champion Berkrerk Chartvanchai in Tokyo and retained the championship for an impressive five title defenses.
Died one day following his first professional fight due to injuries sustained. 1 Jun 1928 Tosh Powell: Billy Housego: 20-year-old Welsh boxer Powell collapsed during the third round of his bout with London fighter Housego. Powell was taken to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary, where he died of a brain hemorrhage on 2 June. [8] 24 Jan 1930: Mickey ...
Ryōta Murata (村田 諒太, Murata Ryōta, born 12 January 1986) is a Japanese former professional boxer who competed from 2013 to 2022. He held the WBA (Regular) middleweight title twice between 2017 and 2021, and the WBA (Super) middleweight title from 2021 to 2022.
Iwao Hakamada (Japanese: 袴田 巖, Hepburn: Hakamada Iwao, born 10 March 1936) is a Japanese former professional boxer who was sentenced to death on 11 September 1968 for a 1966 mass murder that became known as the Hakamada Incident. [2] In March 2011, Guinness World Records certified Hakamada as the world's longest-held death row inmate. [3]
Professional boxer Ubayd Haider has died after collapsing outside the ring following a featherweight title fight. Haider, a native of Fiji, had been in a coma at the country’s Lautoka Aspen ...
In 1973, one boxer among them died after an eighth-round knockout loss in a super featherweight ten-round bout in Agana, Guam. [68] He is the only Japanese boxer to die outside of his home country. [69] There were six fatal accidents before that. [69] [70] First, an African American died of athlete's heart after an exhibition match in Yokohama ...
Kenji Yonekura (Japanese: 米倉 健司, Hepburn: Yonekura Kenji, 25 May 1934 – 20 April 2023) was a Japanese boxer who competed at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games in the flyweight division, and was a two-time world title challenger in the flyweight and bantamweight divisions. He later served as the president of Yonekura Boxing Gym.
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]