Japanese Boxing Appreciation Thread

One thing that I don't like is their aversion to unification between two Japanese fighters. They'd rather two of their fighters each held a title in the same weight class rather than fight each other.

But overall, Japanese boxing is great. Their matchmaking is tough, they don't go for bogus titles and they put on good shows.

If forced to travel, Japanese fighters will. Nishioka went to Mexico as did that LMW who fought Alvarez's brother. But yeah, usually they like to keep things at home. You can't blame them really. It's not as if there's big money for Japanese bantams or super bantams in America.

 

Yep, that's why a fight between Lee and Nishioka is unlikely.

 

Hatton and Witter?

 

Koki Kameda

 

That's to do with a lot more than Hatton and Witter both being British. In Japan it seems they'd rather maximise the number of champions they have by not unifying.

 

It would be cool if they produced a world class middleweight or something.

Koji Sato does not count.

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BTW, in time I might spam this thread with videos of Japanese boxers instead of doing the same thing on the Choi thread :yep

 

Very polite and good humored are the Japanese. I have worked with lots of people from there over the years.
Not a fan of their food though. Rendall did the right thing making his own meals.

 

I really think Kamegai's going to be chinned sooner rather than later. Fun fighter though :yep

 

Koji Sato

A Japanese HW would be the dog's bollocks however unlikely that may be

 

Unlikely but possible. They certainly have big enough men, not many but its just always going to be difficult just as it is for our flyweights because the competition is not there at amateur or pro level and the gap between domestic and world has to be huge.

Koji Sato had an impressive domestic record yet in his middleweight title challenge he made Gary Lockett look well schooled. There was definitely some comedic value though.

 

From boxrec... 4 of them and 3 of them have had 1 fight!

Japan active heavyweight ratings

name W-L-D
1 Rio Hidaka 15 5(4)-0(0)-0

2 Himawari Makoto 0 1(1)-0(0)-0

3 Masanori Takemura 0 0(0)-1(1)-0

4 Mitsunori Fujinaka 0 0(0)-1(1)-0