1. Shinsuke Yamanaka is a Japanese former professional boxer who competed from 2006 to 2018.
24 Facts About Shinsuke Yamanaka
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Shinsuke Yamanaka held the WBC bantamweight title from 2011 to 2017, a reign where he made twelve successful defences and a reign which is the fourth longest in boxing's bantamweight division.
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Shinsuke Yamanaka held The Ring bantamweight title twice between 2016 and 2018.
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Stylistically, Yamanaka was known as a brawler who sought to stand and trade punches with his opponents.
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Shinsuke Yamanaka was considered an entertaining fighter, with many of his fights featuring several knockdowns.
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Shinsuke Yamanaka became interested in the sport of boxing as a result of seeing the likes Joichiro Tatsuyoshi, Mike Tyson, and Naseem Hamed on TV.
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However, Shinsuke Yamanaka has referred to his amateur career as "average".
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Shinsuke Yamanaka has currently made twelve successful consecutive defences of the WBC and The Ring bantamweight titles and previously ranked 9th in The Ring pound for pound listings.
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Shinsuke Yamanaka debuted at the age of 23 in Tokyo's Korakuen Hall, where he would fight 14 of his first 15 fights.
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Shinsuke Yamanaka would improve on the ring by stopping his next 5 opponents.
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On June 20,2010, Shinsuke Yamanaka defeated Mikio Yasuda to win the Japanese bantamweight title.
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Shinsuke Yamanaka captured the vacant WBC bantamweight title in his first world title shot against Mexico's Christian Esquivel via an eleventh-round technical knockout after knocking him down in the sixth and eleventh rounds at the Yoyogi National Stadium Second Gymnasium in Tokyo on November 6,2011.
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Shinsuke Yamanaka was presented with the Rookie Award both in the forty-fourth Japan Professional Sports Awards and Japan's Boxer of the Year in 2011.
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Shinsuke Yamanaka won the fight by unanimous decision, but Darchinyan would become the first fighter to last 12 rounds against the WBC champion since 2008.
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Shinsuke Yamanaka defended his title once more in 2012 against Tomas Rojas, knocking the former WBC super flyweight champion out in the 7th round with a left-hand cross.
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Shinsuke Yamanaka would go on to face Malcolm Tunacao on his third defense.
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Shinsuke Yamanaka dropped Sor Rungvisai 3 times but was unable to finish him, winning by unanimous decision but ending a 5 fight knockout-streak.
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Shinsuke Yamanaka would run into his toughest fight yet in his ninth title defense against former WBA champion Anselmo Moreno.
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Shinsuke Yamanaka sought to establish himself early, winning the first round and knocking his opponent down in the second.
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Shinsuke Yamanaka seemed to recover, but late on that same round he was dropped again by a well-timed counter from Solis.
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The seventh round proved to the decisive one, as Shinsuke Yamanaka knocked Moreno down twice more before the referee waved the fight off.
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On March 2,2017, Shinsuke Yamanaka fought overmatched opponent Carlos Carlson to a seventh-round TKO win.
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Shinsuke Yamanaka said he was considering retirement but he was open to a rematch with Nery.
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Days after the ruling, Shinsuke Yamanaka confirmed he wouldn't retire and would come back for the rematch.