Kenshirō Teraji vs. Carlos Antonio Cañizales Civira & Artem Kamoevich Dalakian vs. Masago Akui RBR

AFAIK they only ever do the WBC open scoring announcements following completion the 4th and 8th rounds, but yeah maybe someone in his corner got a glimpse over a judge's shoulder or something.

 

Anybody remember early in Teraji's career, around 2017-18, he was billed as "Ken Shiro" everywhere? On forums, in mainstream sport news articles, his BoxRec page - literally everyone called him that and thought it was his name. I was the one that saw, I think on Japanese Wikipedia, that his first name was Kenshirō and last Teraji. Stubbornly went against the grain and called him by his real full name in every post and poll or RBR thread title here, and on Twitter replies, and lo & behold...the rest of the world over time in a sea change has adopted that convention. TV graphics and ring announcers used to just say "Ken Shiro", now it's "Kenshirō Teraji"

I don't think it's unreasonable to claim credit for his official billed name changing to Teraji and single-handedly influencing the global boxing community to call him by his actual name instead of Ken Shiro. Which, ridiculously, he adopted as his moniker in the first place (pretending his first name was his entire name) because he wanted people to associate him with the mononymous protagonist of Fist of the North Star. Yeah, I shut that silly **** down.

 

I take it back - @Boxing Prospect was hip to his real name as early as I was.

But I'm the one that aggressively pushed calling him that and didn't indulge his ego by using his fake anime name.

 

Hell yeah, CCC earned that much. And from what we saw, stoppage revenge isn't out of the question which could set us up for a classic trilogy.

 

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For all those that whine about me using fighters' full government names as opposed to whatever theatrical nonsense they want to fight under (to give things an air of professionalism & gravitas), and ask "why?? what do you hope to accomplish by doing that, IB?" - well, sometimes things work out.

 

Not even Nasukawa taking his first stoppage victory all that seriously.

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I think it was a little of both.

 

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For anybody else that endowed themselves with the small mercy of not waking up at 4am and thus missed Yonaha vs. Tatsuyoshi, here:

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...yeah, Juiki's mid. (but fun)

 

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