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Koichi Wajima

BORN   April 21 1943; Nishisanjo, Tsuchida City, Hokkaido, Japan
HEIGHT 5-7 3/4
WEIGHT 145-155 lbs
MANAGER Hitoshi Misako

Wajima was a talented fighter who compiled a career record of 31-6-1 with 25 knockouts; During his career, he won the WBC Light Middleweight Championship of the World, the WBA Light Middleweight Championship of the World and the Light Middleweight Championship of Japan

Koichi defeated such men as Jae-Do Yuh, Oscar Albarado, Carmelo Bossi, Cassius Naito, Turtle Okabe, Miguel de Oliveira, Silvano Bertini, Ryu Sorimachi, Domenico Tiberia, Hideo Kanazawa, Pedro Adigue Jr. and Alacran Kusanagi

1968
Jun 15 Akira Takekawa              Tokyo, Japan                    KO  1
Jun 30 Koji Watanabe               Tokyo, Japan                    KO  2
Aug  8 Toshiaki Kaneko             Tokyo, Japan                    KO  3
Aug 31 Tadakazu Sakai              Tokyo, Japan                    KO  2
Oct  6 Takao Higa                  Tokyo, Japan                    KO  3
Oct 27 Sozo Yamamoto               Tokyo, Japan                    KO  1
Dec 30 Masami Takechi              Tokyo, Japan                    TK  4

1969
Feb  3 Masaki Nomoto               Tokyo, Japan                     W  6
Mar 27 Takemi Kato                 Tokyo, Japan                    KO  6
Jun 16 Alacran Kusanagi            Tokyo, Japan                    KO  9
Jul 30 Rocky Alarde                Tokyo, Japan                    KO  8 
Sep  4 Noriyasu Yoshimura          Nagoya, Japan                   KO  4
          -Light Middleweight Championship of Japan
Oct 30 Pedro Adigue Jr.            Tokyo, Japan                    LK  1
Dec 18 Turtle Okabe                Tokyo, Japan                    KO  7
          -Light Middleweight Championship of Japan

1970
Feb  5 George Carter               Tokyo, Japan                     L 10
          -Light Middleweight Championship of Japan
Apr  9 George Carter               Tokyo, Japan                     W 10
          -Light Middleweight Championship of Japan
May 23 Ken Sato                    Sapporo, Japan                  KO  3
Aug  9 Muneo Mizoguchi             Tokyo, Japan                    KO  8
          -Light Middleweight Championship of Japan
Sep 10 Tetsuo Hoshino              Tokyo, Japan                    KO  5
          -Light Middleweight Championship of Japan
Oct 30 Raizo Kashima               Tokyo, Japan                    KO  3
          -Light Middleweight Championship of Japan

1971
Jan  8 Hisao Minami                Tokyo, Japan                    KO  7
          -Light Middleweight Championship of Japan
Feb 18 Hideo Kanazawa              Osaka, Japan                    KO  2
Mar 26 Alfredo Fuentes             Tokyo, Japan                    KO  1
May 28 Tetsuo Hoshino              Tokyo, Japan                    KO  2
          -Light Middleweight Championship of Japan
Oct 31 Carmelo Bossi               Tokyo, Japan                     W 15
          -WBC Light Middleweight Championship of the World;
          WBA Light Middleweight Championship of the World

1972
Feb  2 Cassius Naito               Tokyo, Japan                    KO  7
May  7 Domenico Tiberia            Tokyo, Japan                    KO  1
          -WBC Light Middleweight Championship of the World;
          WBA Light Middleweight Championship of the World
Oct  3 Matt Donovan                Tokyo, Japan                    KO  3
          -WBC Light Middleweight Championship of the World;
          WBA Light Middleweight Championship of the World

1973
Jan  9 Miguel de Oliveira          Tokyo, Japan                    D 15
          -WBC Light Middleweight Championship of the World;
          WBA Light Middleweight Championship of the World
Apr 19 Ryu Sorimachi               Osaka, Japan                    W 15
          -WBC Light Middleweight Championship of the World;
          WBA Light Middleweight Championship of the World
Aug 14 Silvano Bertini             Sapporo, Japan                 TK 12
          -WBC Light Middleweight Championship of the World;
          WBA Light Middleweight Championship of the World

1974
Feb  5 Miguel de Oliveira          Tokyo, Japan                    W 15
          -WBC Light Middleweight Championship of the World;
          WBA Light Middleweight Championship of the World
Jun  4 Oscar "Shotgun" Albarado    Tokyo, Japan                   LK 15
          -WBC Light Middleweight Championship of the World;
          WBA Light Middleweight Championship of the World

1975
Jan 21 Oscar "Shotgun" Albarado    Tokyo, Japan                    W 15
          -WBC Light Middleweight Championship of the World;
          WBA Light Middleweight Championship of the World
Jun  7 Jae-Doo Yuh                 Kitakyushu, Japan              LK  7
          -WBA Light Middleweight Championship of the World

1976
Feb 17 Jae-Doo Yuh                 Tokyo, Japan                   KO 15
          -WBA Light Middleweight Championship of the World
May 18 Jose Manuel Duran           Tokyo, Japan                   LK 14
          -WBA Light Middleweight Championship of the World

1977
Jun  7 Eddie Gazo                  Tokyo, Japan                   LT 11
          -WBA Light Middleweight Championship of the World

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