Boxing legend Yoko Gushiken announces gym closure, citing age
Yoko Gushiken, who made 13 successful defenses of his WBA light flyweight championship before losing his final pro fight, announced Saturday that he is closing down the Shirai Gushiken Sports Gym, where he serves as chairman. The gym, located in Tokyo, was founded in 1995 ...
The Kyoei Gym, which has been the Tokyo training base for 13 world champions including boxing legend Yoko Gushiken, will shut its doors, gym president Keiichiro Kanehira said Saturday. According to Kanehira, after filing documents to halt business operations with the East Japan Boxing Association ...
Mexican challenger Nery claims WBC bantamweight title with fourth-round TKO of Yamanaka
Shinsuke Yamanaka suffered his first pro defeat on Tuesday, losing his WBC bantamweight crown in a fourth-round technical knockout to Mexico's Luis Nery. Yamanaka, making his 13th title defense, was staggered in the fourth round, and his trainer threw in the towel with 29 seconds ...
Former super featherweight champion Uchiyama retires with pride in career accomplishments
Just like people in general, there is no immortality in sports. One day, every athlete starts declining, and one day he or she must quit. It is time for Takashi Uchiyama, one of the greatest boxers Japan has ever seen. The ex-WBA super featherweight champion announced ...
Yoko Gushiken, a boxing legend who hails from Okinawa, hopes young people from prefecture will be brave enough to take on any challenge and succeed in any field. "I had been fighting 120 percent for Okinawa," Gushiken said in a recent interview, recalling the days ...
WBC bantamweight champion Shinsuke Yamanaka insists attempting to match a 37-year-old Japanese record will not affect his performance when he fights Mexican challenger Luis Nery next month. Yamanaka, 34, will be aiming to tie former WBA light flyweight champion Yoko Gushiken's record of 13 consecutive ...
Daigo Higa said becoming the WBC flyweight champion last month has given him more to fight for as he resumed training on Friday. "Becoming a world champion has given me more goals," Higa, who scored a sixth-round technical knockout of Mexican Juan Hernandez on May ...
Yamanaka set to battle Nery in bid to tie title defense mark
When Shinsuke Yamanaka began boxing in high school, all he wanted to do was become a world champion. He accomplished that, but never thought his reign would last this long. Yamanaka, the WBC bantamweight champ, will face young challenger Luis Nery on Aug. 15 at ...
Ioka ties Gushiken's record with 14th career title-fight win
Kazuto Ioka defended his WBA bantamweight crown for the fifth time on Sunday, winning a unanimous decision over Noknoi Sitthiprasert of Thailand. In the first title fight on the card at Edion Arena Osaka, Shohei Omori lost his first world title fight, suffering an 11th ...
Yamanaka defends bantamweight title for 12th time, moves within win of matching Gushiken record
As everyone had predicted, Carlos Carlson was no match for "God's Left." Shinsuke Yamanaka mauled the Mexican challenger and retained his WBC bantamweight title with a seventh-round technical knockout victory at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on Thursday night. Yamanaka (27-0-2, 19 KOs) defended his title for the ...
Challenger Carlson, champion Yamanaka express confidence ahead of WBC bantamweight title bout
Mexican challenger Carlos Carlson declared that he would take Shinsuke Yamanaka's WBC bantamweight title belt when they square off at Ryogoku Kokugikan on Thursday evening. The Japanese champion did not overreact in response to the challenger's bold statement, calmly saying that the emerald green-colored ...
Yoko Gushiken, the WBA light flyweight champion from 1976-81, and Masao Oba, who was the WBA flyweight champion when he died in a road accident in 1973 at age 23, were inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame on Sunday. Okinawa native Gushiken holds ...
