This guy, a Japanese LHW who turned pro in the 80s. This content is protected https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/4364 One loss, early doors, Japanese title at middle, regional title at LHW, then just up and retires when there must have been money around and i've no idea why. It's a Japanese idea, admittedly, this early retiring but i'm curious. Not least because his kid is Kenshiro Teraji, a very dangerous young man currently tearing up the lighter weights. Must be weird that he's 108lbs and his old boy was 175lbs. Even though Teraji is clearly the better man the old boy would have tanned him. Anyone?
He didn't retire early though. Boxrec says he was born 1964, turned pro in 1989, fought quite infrequently but managed between 1 and 3 fights each of those years until 1998, no fights in 1999, then his last fight in 2000. Turned pro at age 25, last fight aged 36.
Well I definite what I mean by that pretty clearly I think in the sentence before. To make it clearer, he retired with money still available at around the time he might have been expected to cash in on the promotional power he had built.
Fair enough. I'm not sure being Japanese or Oriental Pacific light heavy champion counts for much though.
