Just noticed Japan has at least one person at the top 10 from Minimum weight all the way up to Super Featherweight.. with 4-5 lineal champs at the top of the division.
Shouldn't come as a great surprise. They are predominantly small statue people and there are 130 million of them.
Takamura is a two weight world champ. Ippo and Miyata may one day win a title, both should get beat by Ricardo Martinez though. Sendo might also but he wants Martinez rather than the other champs so unlikely. There is more successful real life boxers in Japan than in a Manga based in Japan.
Yep, and with all that talent you would think some of the MMA fighters would have some decent boxing. The only one that comes to mind is Takanori Gomi. He hits like a truck. I wonder how his career would have been if he followed the professional boxing career instead of the professional MMA career. He has a hell of a chin too.
I suspect Ioka will retire as a two or three weight champ. He's not small for a minimumweight, and he's damn good and only 23. And Koki Kameda, scary as it is, is already a three weight titlist despite never having beaten a particularly good fighter. They do have a couple decent prospects at higher weights too. The middleweight from the Olympics seemed to have a really good style for the pros and I suspect will be one of their best bigger fighters. And Kyotaro Fujimoto is a former K-1 champ at heavyweight who was known for his punching and is taking on Chauncey Welliver in only his 5th pro fight as a boxer.
They don't always have thier own way, the Thais give em a run for their money! :yep Some of the best fights in boxing happen in Asia: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uv6PgYTM_I"]www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uv6PgYTM_I[/ame]
I trained this summer in Japan and after the U.S. and Mexico, Japan has the third amount of ranked fighters in the world. I trained beside Watanabe Akinori and Sato.
