Yoshio Shirai

Here he is Japan's first world champion with my old fella in my avatar.

 

I spotted a documentry that had alot of footage of him in it on a download site, I will have to download it and see for myself.

There are his too fights with Saldivar out there anyway.

 

Are you thinking of Mitsunori Seki?

 

no my mind is dead atschatsch is it Shibatu who fought Saldivar?

 

Kuniaki Shibata fought Saldivar as well as Seki.

 

thats who i was thinking of fighting saldivar get them too mixed up. Shirai and Sibatu

my brain is not working just now

 

Too many boxers on the brain lad

 

Shibata beat a past prime Saldivar. Seki fought him twice in his prime, are you certain you're not mixing them up as well?

Anyways, there's footage of at least one of his bouts with Perez, of which I've seen a small bit of. Not the most conclusive, and I'd have to watch it again to give you many thoughts. By all accounts he was one of the top Flyweights of the era though, and the best among Asians.

 

Yeh I have mixed them up, I have seen the Seki fights.