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Kuniaki Shibata

BORN   March 29 1947; Hitachi, Japan
HEIGHT 5-4
WEIGHT 118-133 lbs

Shibata was a determined scrapper who won the WBA Super Featherweight Championship of the World, the WBC Super Featherweight Championship of the World, the WBC Featherweight Championship of the World, the Featherweight Championship of the Orient and the Featherweight Championship of Japan

He defeated such men as Vicente Saldivar, Ben Villafor, Yasuo Sakurai, Vicente Garcia, Katsutoshi Aoki, Ricardo Arredondo, Ramiro Bolanos, Antonio Amaya, Hyun Kim, Beto Maldonado, Koji Ikeda, Ould Makloufi, Susumu Okabe and Victor Federico Echegaray

1965
Mar  6 Seiichi Iizuka             Tokyo, Japan                      KO  1
Apr  5 Hitoshi Yoshino            Tokyo, Japan                      KO  1
Jul 28 Norio Sugimoto             Tokyo, Japan                      KO  1
Sep  2 Masaru Miyazaki            Tokyo, Japan                       W  4
Sep 27 Yoshinobu Yokoyama         Tokyo, Japan                      KO  1
Nov 11 Toshihiko Nojiri           Tokyo, Japan                       W  4
Dec 20 Takao Suzuki               Tokyo, Japan                      KO  1

1966
Jan 31 Masachika Tokutome         Osaka, Japan                      KO  5
Oct 23 Atsushi Gunji              Tokyo, Japan                      KO  6
Dec 11 Kenji Fuse                 Tokyo, Japan                      KO  2

1967
Jan 15 Alberto Reyes              Tokyo, Japan                       W 10
Feb 12 Hiroshi Miyata             Tokyo, Japan                      KO  4
Mar  5 Hyun Kim                   Tokyo, Japan                       W 10
Jun  7 Katsutoshi Aoki            Tokyo, Japan                      KO  1
          -Some sources report 7/05/67
Aug  9 Roberto Andrade            Tokyo, Japan                      KO  5
Sep 20 Roy Amolong                Tokyo, Japan                       W 10
Nov 15 Chang Soo Yun              Gifu, Japan                       TK  9
          -Some sources report "Soon-In Chang" at "Seoul, Korea"
Dec  5 Chang-Bok Lee              Hitachi, Japan                    KO  2
Dec 27 Soo-Bok Kwon               Tokyo, Japan                      KO  2

1968
Jan 31 Tiny Palacios              Tokyo, Japan                      KO  5
Mar  1 Ramiro Nides               Agana, Guam                        W 10
Mar 27 Dwight Hawkins             Tokyo, Japan                      LK  7
Jul  2 Beto Maldonado             Tokyo, Japan                       W 10
          -Some sources report 7/03/68
Aug 14 Toshiharu Mori             Tokyo, Japan                      TD  3
Oct 23 Orlando Medina             Tokyo, Japan                       W 10

1969
Jan 15 Hubert Kang                Tokyo, Japan                      LK  6
          -Featherweight Championship of the Orient
Mar 24 Koji Ikeda                 Tokyo, Japan                       W 10
Apr 28 Kid Barrios                Tokyo, Japan                      KO  1
Jun 11 Yoshio Ando                Tokyo, Japan                      KO  8
Sep 10 Fernando Sotelo            Tokyo, Japan                      KO  9
Oct 22 Flash Besande              Osaka, Japan                      KO  3

1970
Feb  4 Felipe Torres              Tokyo, Japan                       W 10
Apr 15 Yasuo Sakurai              Tokyo, Japan                      KO 10
          -Featherweight Championship of Japan
Jul  8 Jose Acosta                Tokyo, Japan                       D 10
Sep  9 Hyun Kim                   Tokyo, Japan                       W 10
Dec 11 Vicente Saldivar           Tijuana, Mexico                   TK 14
          -WBC Featherweight Championship of the World

1971
Mar  7 Vicente Garcia             Hitachi, Japan                     W 10
Jun  3 Raul Cruz                  Tokyo, Japan                      KO  1
          -WBC Featherweight Championship of the World
Aug  1 Hyun Kim                   Nagoya, Japan                      W 10
Nov 11 Ernesto Marcel             Matsuyama, Japan                   D 15
          -WBC Featherweight Championship of the World

1972
May 19 Clemente Sanchez           Tokyo, Japan                      LK  3
          -WBC Featherweight Championship of the World
Jul 11 Bert Nabalatan             Honolulu, Oahu, Hi                 W 10
Oct  7 Andries Steyn              Johannesburg, Trans, SAfrica       L 10

1973
Feb  2 Kimio Shindo               Sendai, Japan                     KO  7
          -Some sources report 2/03/73
Mar 12 Ben Villaflor              Honolulu, Oahu, Hi                 W 15
          -WBA Super Featherweight Championship of the World
Jun 19 Victor Federico Echegaray  Tokyo, Japan                       W 15
          -WBA Super Featherweight Championship of the World
Sep  3 Nam Chul Chung             Hitachi, Japan                    KO  2
          -Some sources report "Chung-Nam Chul"
Oct 17 Ben Villaflor              Honolulu, Oahu, Hi                LK  1
          -WBA Super Featherweight Championship of the World

1974
Feb 28 Ricardo Arredondo          Tokyo, Japan                       W 15
          -WBC Super Featherweight Championship of the World;
          Some sources report 3/01/74
Jun 27 Antonio Amaya              Tokyo, Japan                       W 15
          -WBC Super Featherweight Championship of the World
Oct  3 Ramiro Bolanos             Tokyo, Japan                      TK 15
          -WBC Super Featherweight Championship of the World

1975
Mar 27 Ould Makloufi              Fukuoka, Japan                     W 15
          -WBC Super Featherweight Championship of the World
Jul  4 Alfredo Escalera           Mito, Japan                       LK  2
          -WBC Super Featherweight Championship of the World;
          Some sources report 7/05/75

1976
Mar 22 Tamio Negishi              Akita, Japan                       W 10
Oct 12 Susumu Okabe               Tokyo, Japan                       W 10

1977
Nov 29 Al Espinosa                Tokyo, Japan                       W 10



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

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