Kiyoshi Hatanaka is a retired Japanese boxer who is a former WBC super bantamweight champion.
11 Facts About Kiyoshi Hatanaka
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Kiyoshi Hatanaka set an interval record in the local ekiden race at the age of a junior high school student.
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Kiyoshi Hatanaka made his professional debut with a first-round knockout victory in November 1984, at the age of a high school student.
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Kiyoshi Hatanaka won the annual Japanese boxing series, All-Japan Rookie King Tournament in the super flyweight division in March 1986.
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Kiyoshi Hatanaka captured the Japanese super flyweight title at the Korakuen Hall in February 1987.
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Kiyoshi Hatanaka was so nervous that he remembered almost nothing after the fight.
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Kiyoshi Hatanaka asked Toshihide Tsutsumi three times who once worked as a trainer at Matsuda Boxing Gym, and was at last accepted.
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Kiyoshi Hatanaka trained with Tsutsumi and did not get anxious anymore.
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Kiyoshi Hatanaka moved up two weight divisions and fought against Pedro Ruben Decima for the WBC super bantamweight title at the Nagoya International Exhibition Hall, aka Port Messe Nagoya, on February 3,1991.
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Kiyoshi Hatanaka was floored in the first round, but felt calm enough to listen to Tsutsumi's instruction between rounds.
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Kiyoshi Hatanaka Promotions has provided a boxing television program Soul Fighting on Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting.