Steps To Improve The Japanese Boxing Scene

Agreed, they have a lot of good fighters.

 

I only wish we got more exposure of Japans top fighteres here in the U.S.

We'd also have to come up with announcers who were just as enthusiastic as their Japanese counterparts. Think more like a great pro wrestling announcer instead of most of what we have, where their "enthusiasm" for the fight is such that if they got any more crazy/excited, a funeral might break out.

 

The Japanese may ask the question ' What are some steps you would take to improve the non-Japanese boxing scene? '

There isn't really all that many recognisable names above the Super Featherweight weight divison, except, Ryota Murata, the 2012 Middleweight Olympic Gold medalist, or maybe the Japanese Malignaggi, Yoshitaka Kato at lightweight.

Maybe we should ask their crazy scientists to start making genitically modified Japanese babies that go to be taller than 5'5.

Maybe they should venture off of their island?

Maybe they shouldn't all sould like something you drive or watch your TV on?

 

When it comes to the lighter weight classes, Japan produces some of the best boxers in the world. There is nothing wrong with that.

 

Why don't you start out by telling why it would need improvement?

 

Odd thread because the Japanese Boxing/Fighting scene is thriving without anyone's help. That's part of the problem though. There's very little incentive for Japanese fighters to venture elsewhere when they can make a good living without travelling. Nishioka(retired) was definitely a rarity. Of the current crop of Japanese boxers however, Uchiyama is talented and is a pretty big draw , but his mainstream/crossover marketability is severely limited because of his age and his disinclination to travel. Miura, while not as talented as Uchiyama, will fight anywhere and scored a big win over Thompson in his last fight. Fujimoto(heavyweight) has a pretty deep martial arts background but he may never be the same after the Haumono fight.

 

Put on some weight.

 

I recently read an Academic piece done a few years back by an American scholar living in Japan, on the Japanese boxing scene and its peculiarities compared to the West.


Its very interesting he talks about how the set up of the professional boxing scene both helps and hinders local fighters.
For instance the main reason Japan has so many fighters below Middleweight class, has less to do with the main idea people have about Japanese (being smaller stature people), but actually because the JBC forces naturally "bigger" men to boil down to Middleweight limit and below!

In the 90's a 6'4 Light-Heavyweight named Hisashi Teraji had to do this to advance his career.

Also he writes about how In Japanese boxing circles, how fighters pay more attention to what other people think of them as opposed to Americans who traditionally oppose the relevant mainstream opinion.

Here's the link to the study:





http://www.cipa.ulg.ac.be/intervalles4/29_goodman.pdf

 

not really but OK, whatever. Japan is so overrated as a society its a joke. White folks hype them up smh

 

a good japanese fighter would be an average mexicano

their pro baseball league is like the AAA in America

basically everything in Japan is a level below the best

 

:thumbsup

 

:blood

The last thing any country needs to improve their respective boxing scene is promote what is and for a long time has been the weakest division in the sport. What is needed is a sea change in the perceptions of the public, which for generations have believed that heavyweight is the marquee division. Enough big events in the lower weights matching the best versus the best and eventually that snap-judgment association that links the HW scene with the overall boxing scene in the minds of casuals and non-fans will fade into Bolivian.

 

Man, you sound really bitter and jealous...