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Yoko Gushiken
(the "Fierce Eagle")

BORN   June 26 1955; Ishigaki, Okinawa, Japan
HEIGHT 5-4
WEIGHT 107-111 lbs
MANAGER Masaki Kanehira

Gushiken was a talented, left-handed, pressure fighter who had wonderful stamina; He had a short but outstanding career and lost only 1 of 24 bouts with 15 knockouts; During his career, he won the WBA Light Flyweight Championship of the World

Yoko defeated such men as 
Juan Antonio Guzman,
Montsayarm Haw Mahachai, Jaime Rios, Martin Vargas, Alfonso Lopz and Rigoberto Marcano

Herb Goldman ranked Gushiken as the #15 All-Time Flyweight

1974
May 28 Koichi Maki                 Tokyo, Japan                     W  4
Sep 10 Koichi Maki                 Naha, Japan                      W  4
Dec  9 Tadahiro Mihara             Tokyo, Japan                    KO  5

1975
Mar  9 Yasunobu Nitta              Naha, Japan                     KO  4
Jun 29 Yasuo Jo                    Naha, Japan                      W  6
Oct 19 Shoji Warabino              Okinawa, Japan                  KO  6

1976
Jan 23 Cesar Gomez                 Kawasaki, Japan                 KO  7
Jul 16 Toshihisa Takii             Tokyo, Japan                    KO  3
Oct 10 Juan Antonio Guzman         Kofu, Japan                     KO  7
          -WBA Light Flyweight Championship of the World

1977
Jan 30 Jaime Rios                  Tokyo, Japan                     W 15
          -WBA Light Flyweight Championship of the World
May 22 Rigoberto Marcano           Sapporo, Japan                   W 15
          -WBA Light Flyweight Championship of the World
Oct  9 Montsayarm Haw Mahachai     Beppu, Japan                    KO  4
          -WBA Light Flyweight Championship of the World

1978
Jan 29 Aniceto Vargas              Nagoya, Japan                  TK 14
          -WBA Light Flyweight Championship of the World
May  7 Jaime Rios                  Hiroshima, Japan               TK 13
          -WBA Light Flyweight Championship of the World
Aug 14 Mak Dong Kim                Omiya, Japan                   KO  6
Oct 15 Sang Il Chung               Tokyo, Japan                   TK  5
          -WBA Light Flyweight Championship of the World

1979
Jan  7 Rigoberto Marcano           Kawasaki, Japan                KO  7
          -WBA Light Flyweight Championship of the World
Apr  8 Alfonso Lopez               Tokyo, Japan                   KO  7
          -WBA Light Flyweight Championship of the World
Jul 29 Rafael "Rafaelito" Pedroza  Kitakyushu, Japan               W 15
          -WBA Light Flyweight Championship of the World
Oct 28 Tito Abella                 Tokyo, Japan                   KO  7
          -WBA Light Flyweight Championship of the World

1980
Jan 27 Yong Hyun Kim               Osaka, Japan                    W 15
          -WBA Light Flyweight Championship of the World
Jun  1 Martin Vargas               Kochi, Japan                   TK  8
          -WBA Light Flyweight Championship of the World
Oct 12 Pedro Flores                Kanazawa, Japan                 W 15
          -WBA Light Flyweight Championship of the World

1981
Mar  8 Pedro Flores                Gushikawa, Japan               LT 12
          -WBA Light Flyweight Championship of the World
Aug  7 -Gushiken announced his retirement from the ring
 

Record courtesy of Tracy Callis, Historian, International Boxing Research Organization

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