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Draws. 4. Nao Ikeyama (born 18 September 1969 [1]) is a Japanese boxer who held the WBO atomweight title from 17 May 2014 until 29 July 2018. She made her professional debut on 30 November 2003, where she defeated Satoko Kamimura by unanimous decision. [2] Ikeyama made six successful title defenses for her belt, with her sixth title defense ...
Miyo Yoshida吉田実代. Miyo Yoshida (吉田実代, Yoshida Miyo, born 12 April 1988) is a Japanese professional boxer. She holds the IBF bantamweight title since 2023 and twice held the WBO junior-bantamweight title from 2019-2020 and 2021-2022.
Japan ranks fourth worldwide between countries with the most boxing world champions. The most thriving period of Japan's boxing ran from the 1960s to the early 1970s. In the "golden 60s," Fighting Harada won championships in two divisions—flyweight and bantamweight. In the 1970s, Japan had 5 world champions for a short period at the same time.
Sena Irie (入江 聖奈, Irie Sena, born 9 October 2000) is a Japanese retired amateur boxer who won a gold medal in the inaugural women's featherweight event at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She became the first Japanese woman to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing. Biography. Irie was born in Yonago, Japan in 2000.
In 1997 the British Amateur Boxing Association sanctioned its first boxing competition for women. The first event was meant to be between two thirteen-year-olds, but one of the boxers dropped out because of hostile media attention. A month later, an event was held between two sixteen-year-olds.
Below is a list of current female world boxing champions recognised by the WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO, and The Ring. Each champion's professional boxing record is shown in the following format: wins–losses–draws–no contests (knockout wins). Heavyweight (+200 lb/+90.7 kg or +168 lb/+76.2 kg)
Emiko Raika (来家 恵美子, born January 24, 1975, in Kyoto, Japan) is a Japanese female professional boxer and mixed martial artist.. Although more Japanese women have taken up traditionally male sports such as karate, kickboxing and wrestling in recent years, many in Japan still believe that women should not box, because of the injury risk.
Rena Kubota (久保田 玲奈, kubota rena, Japanese pronunciation: [kɯbota ɾena]), better known by her ring name RENA (stylized in capital letters) or Reina, is a professional Japanese shoot wrestler, kickboxer and mixed martial artist, currently competing in the strawweight division of Rizin. A professional competitor since 2007, Kubota ...