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Kazuo "Royal" Kobayashi

BORN   October 10 1949; Kumamoto, Japan
HEIGHT 5-5 1/2
WEIGHT 121 3/4 - 132 1/4 lbs
MANAGER Yoshinori Takahashi
TRAINER Eddie Townsend


 

Kobayashi was a fighter with a punch who compiled a 35-8 record with 27 knockouts; During his career, he won the WBC Super Bantamweight Championship of the World and the OPBF Featherweight Championship

"Royal" defeated such men as Rigoberto Riasco, Jse Medel, Koichi Matsushima, Takao Maruki, Masa Ito, Shigemitsu "Spider" Nemoto, Junichi "Blazer" Okubo, Shigeru Sasaki, Katsuhiro "Ushiwakamaru" Harada, Zensuke Utagawa, Masanao Toyoshima and Bert Nabalatan

*** SOME AMATEUR BOUTS *** 

1972 
       Pat Ryan                                                       W  3
       Pasqualino Morbidelli                                         KO  1
       Andras Botos                                                   L  3
          -The previous 3 bouts were part of the Olympic Games 
          Featherweight Competition

*** PROFESSIONAL BOUTS ***

1973
Feb 25 Baron Kumazawa             Tokyo, Japan                        W  8
Apr 27 Hiromichi Sato             Tokyo, Japan                       KO  2
Jun 15 Hiroshi Miura              Tokyo, Japan                       KO  2
Jul 21 Victor Dounue              Kumamoto, Japan                    KO  7
Sep  7 Katsutoshi Inuzuka         Tokyo, Japan                       KO  5
Oct 19 Nam Chul Chung             Tokyo, Japan                       KO  5
Nov 23 Jaguar Sekino              Tokyo, Japan                       KO  2

1974
Feb  1 Hiroshi Nunose             Tokyo, Japan                       KO  4
Mar 17 Sung Jong Hong             Tokyo, Japan                       KO  3
Jun  9 Jose Medel                 Tokyo, Japan                       TK  6
Aug  4 Freddy Mason               Tokyo, Japan                       KO  7
Sep  5 Ryu Fukida                 Osaka, Japan                       KO  4
Sep 16 Bert Nabalatan             Tokyo, Japan                        W 10
Dec 30 Sanjo Takemori             Tokyo, Japan                       KO  2

1975
Feb 17 Masanao Toyoshima          Tokyo, Japan                       KO  6
Apr  4 Jun Gallego                Sendai, Japan                      KO  9
May  9 Zensuke Utagawa            Tokyo, Japan                       KO  2
Jun 16 Hwa Yong Yuh               Tokyo, Japan                       KO  4
Oct 12 Alexis Arguello            Tokyo, Japan                       LK  5
          -WBA Featherweight Championship of the World
Dec 21 Katsuhiro "Ushiwakamaru" Harada Tokyo, Japan                   W 10

1976
Feb 15 Emilio Salcedo             Chiriqui, Panama                    L 10
Jul 10 Jaguar Sekino              Tokyo, Japan                       TK  5
Oct  9 Rigoberto Riasco           Tokyo, Japan                       TK  8
          -WBC Super Bantamweight Championship of the World
Nov 24 Dong Kyun Yum              Seoul, South Korea                  L 15
          -WBC Super Bantamweight Championship of the World

1977
Feb  8 Junichi "Blazer" Okubo     Otsu, Japan                        KO  7
May 23 Shigeru Sasaki             Tokyo, Japan                       KO  1
Nov  3 Satoshi Nakai              Tokyo, Japan                       TK  1

1978
Jan 19 Wilfredo Gomez             Kitakyushu, Japan                  LK  3
          -WBC Super Bantamweight Championship of the World
Apr 27 Bok-Soo Hwang              Tokyo, Japan                       TK 10
          -OPBF Featherweight Championship
Aug  6 Shigemitsu "Spider" Nemoto Tokyo, Japan                        W 12
          -OPBF Featherweight Championship

1979
Jan  9 Eusebio Pedroza            Tokyo, Japan                       LT 13
          -WBA Featherweight Championship of the World
Apr 27 Bok-Soo Hwang              Kumamoto, Japan                     W 12
          -OPBF Featherweight Championship
Jul 26 Hikaru Tomonari            Tokyo, Japan                        L 10
Sep  8 Chong-Yun Lee              Seoul, South Korea                 KO  5
Oct 28 Suk Tae Yun                Aomori, Japan                       W 12
          -OPBF Featherweight Championship
Dec 20 Keno Kashi                 Tokyo, Japan                       KO  6

1980
Feb 24 Masa Ito                   Hofu, Japan                        KO  7
Jun  9 Takao Maruki               Nagoya, Japan                      KO  6
          -OPBF Featherweight Championship
Aug 19 Dae Hwan Lee               Tokyo, Japan                        W 12
          -OPBF Featherweight Championship

1981
Jan 25 Koichi Matsushima          Tokyo, Japan                       KO  8
          -OPBF Featherweight Championship
May 19 Dae Hwan Lee               Tokyo, Japan                        W 12
          -OPBF Featherweight Championship
Sep  6 Young-Sae Oh               Seoul, South Korea                  L 12
Oct 18 Jung Han Hwang             Seoul, South Korea                 LK  1
          -OPBF Featherweight Championship
 

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

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