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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]
Yasutsune Uehara (上原 康恒, Uehara Yasutsune, born October 12, 1949 in Okinawa, Japan) is a former professional boxer and former WBA and lineal super featherweight champion. He is one of the few Japanese boxers to have won the world title fighting outside Japan.
Masayoshi Nakatani (中谷 正義, Nakatani Masayoshi, born March 8, 1989) is a Japanese professional boxer. He held the OPBF lightweight title between 2014 and 2019, [ 2 ] and won the WBO Inter-Continental lightweight title in 2020.
Pugilism has been a favored subject of artists and photographers since boxers first stepped into the ring. "Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing," an exhibit in West Palm Beach, Fla ...
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".
55,000 fans fall into stunned silence. Naoya Inoue tumbles to the canvas for the first time in his 12-year professional career. The usually unflappable Japanese boxer looks to have been rattled by ...
After the year 1952, five Japanese amateur boxers and two Thai professional boxers died due to a fight in Japan. [69] [70] In addition, one Japanese amateur boxer died of cerebral hemorrhage after the test for a professional boxer's license, [74] [75] and one Japanese professional boxer suffered a fatal cerebral hemorrhage during a sparring ...
Japanese boxers by populated place (3 C) + Japanese male boxers (228 P) Japanese women boxers (29 P) O. Olympic boxers for Japan (76 P)