34 Facts About Nobuhiro Ishida

Nobuhiro Ishida is a Japanese former professional boxer.

Nobuhiro Ishida is a former WBA interim super welterweight champion who is best known for knocking out James Kirkland in a middleweight bout at the MGM Grand Las Vegas in April 2011.

Nobuhiro Ishida was born in Tamana District, Kumamoto and moved to Neyagawa, Osaka soon after.

Nobuhiro Ishida began boxing at the Osaka Teiken Boxing Gym at the sixth grade of elementary school.

When Nobuhiro Ishida was a high school freshman, he fought as an in-fighter in the flyweight division at 176 centimeters tall.

Nobuhiro Ishida won the national high school invitational tournament in the lightweight division in 1993.

Nobuhiro Ishida worked for the child welfare for two years and two months from August 1998.

Nobuhiro Ishida paused his boxing career to pursue studies, and qualified as a social welfare secretary.

Nobuhiro Ishida won the OPBF super welterweight title via a technical decision on March 1,2001.

Nobuhiro Ishida managed to get his first title in his sixth match.

Nobuhiro Ishida lost the unification match against the OPBF interim champion by a twelve-round unanimous decision on May 13,2001.

In June and October, 2002, Nobuhiro Ishida fought for the OPBF and interim Japanese title respectively in the same weight division, but lost two in a row.

At that time, Nobuhiro Ishida trained in Los Angeles for the first time to get out of the slump.

Nobuhiro Ishida watched the boxing matches in Las Vegas and felt that he would like to someday fight there.

Nobuhiro Ishida captured the vacant Japanese super welterweight title on December 2,2006, and defended the title twice before vacating it.

Nobuhiro Ishida won the WBA super welterweight title eliminator over Venezuelan Marco Antonio Avendano via a split decision at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium on September 22,2008.

Nobuhiro Ishida had decided to be a bullfighter for that fight.

Nobuhiro Ishida won the interim WBA world super welterweight title over Avendano via a wide margin unanimous decision in front of spectators including one hundred children and staff whom he invited from the orphanage where he had worked before his professional debut, at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium on August 30,2009.

Yet, on that day, the general election where the historical change of government occurred was made in Japan, so Nobuhiro Ishida's fight was broadcast only on a pay TV channel, sky-A sports+.

Nobuhiro Ishida was eager to fight in a unification match against Foreman, saying that he would go anywhere in the world for it and was confident to win it with his own fighting style and with a way which he most want to show to the audience.

Nobuhiro Ishida fought against Rigoberto Alvarez for the vacant WBA world super welterweight championship as his first expedition match in Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico on October 9,2010, and lost there.

Nobuhiro Ishida signed a management contract with Japan's Green-Tsuda Boxing Club and a three-fight promotional contract with Mexico's Canelo Promotions under the supervision of Edison Reynoso who handled the previous fight.

Nobuhiro Ishida was not happy with the status of the former interim champion, and was still not satisfied with knocking out Kirkland on such a big stage.

Nobuhiro Ishida was once scheduled to fight Paul Williams at a maximum weight of 155 pounds on July 9,2011, at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Nobuhiro Ishida won by a technical knockout in the first round against late substitute opponent Edson Espinoza on the undercard of Canelo Alvarez vs Kermit Cintron on November 26,2011.

Nobuhiro Ishida fought against Paul Williams in a twelve-round super welterweight bout held as the main event on Showtime Championship Boxing at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas, on February 18,2012.

Nobuhiro Ishida made it an inside fight where power punches accounted for a larger proportion than jabs.

Williams' bodywork skills and holding tactics did not allow Nobuhiro Ishida to throw accurate punches, compared with the five fights against Kirkland, Alvarez, Valdez and Avendano twice.

Nobuhiro Ishida's rankings dropped slightly to number three and number nine in the WBA super welterweight and WBO middleweight, respectively.

Hence, Nobuhiro Ishida had not been permitted to fight in Japan from that time forward in principle.

In June 2012, Nobuhiro Ishida underwent surgery to remove bone chips in his left elbow that had plagued him for years.

Nobuhiro Ishida fought for the WBA and IBO middleweight titles against Gennady Golovkin at the Salle des Etoiles in Monte Carlo, Monaco on March 30,2013.

Nobuhiro Ishida was knocked out for the first time in his career by Golovkin's overhand right in the third round.

Nobuhiro Ishida made a return to the ring in Japan in August 2013.