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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".
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.
The National Boxing Association (NBA), was formed in 1921 as the first organization aimed at regulating boxing on a national (and later global) level. The prominence of New York City as the epicenter of boxing would lead to a governmental entity, the powerful New York State Athletic Commission (NYSAC), to join the NBA in sanctioning bouts as "world championships."
The American is one of the few modern boxers with a KO record to match Inoue’s, yet “Tank” predominantly fights at lightweight, and even his past ventures at super-featherweight came two ...
Abe was named the December 2022 "Fighter of the Month" by the East Japan Boxing Association following this victory. [28] On 13 January 2023, the IBF ordered a final featherweight title eliminator between Abe and the former two-weight world champion Kiko Martínez. [29] Abe vacated the Japanese featherweight title on the same day. [30]
Kenichi Ogawa (尾川 堅一, Ogawa Ken'ichi, born February 1, 1988) is a Japanese professional boxer who held the IBF junior lightweight title from November 2021 to June 2022. As of July 2022, Ogawa is ranked as the world's eight-best active super featherweight according to The Ring [ 2 ] and BoxRec , [ 3 ] and as the tenth best according to ...
Kazuhisa Watanabe (渡邉 一久, Watanabe Kazuhisa, born May 18, 1983) is a Japanese boxer, kickboxer and mixed martial artist currently competing in K-1 and Dream in the featherweight division. He is known to be overly flamboyant in fights, often jeering and taunting opponents at every opportunity.