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Jiro Watanabe

BORN   March 16 1955; Osaka, Japan
HEIGHT 5-5
WEIGHT 111 1/2-115 1/2 lbs


 

Watanabe was a very talented left-handed boxer who had a short career but a highly successful one; He posted a career record of 26-2-0 with 17 knockouts; During his career, he won the WBC Super Flyweight Championship of the World and the WBA Super Flyweight Championship of the World

Jiro defeated such men as Gustavo Ballas, Shoji Oguma, Luis Ibanez, Chul Ho Kim, Julio Soto Solano, Roberto Ramirez, Soon Chun Kwon, Celso Chavez, Payao Poontarat and Kazuo Katsuma

1979
Mar 27 Keizo Miyazaki             Okayama, Japan                     KO  3
May 19 Yoshihiko Kawahira         Shimizu, Japan                     KO  1
Jul 28 Noboru Ishii               Osaka, Japan                       KO  1
Nov  1 Noboru Ishii               Osaka, Japan                       KO  6
Dec  1 Shinji Takagi              Okayama, Japan                     KO  1

1980
Jan 19 Yoshihiko Kawahira         Yokkaichi, Japan                   KO  4
Feb 21 Koji Kobayashi             Osaka, Japan                       KO  1
Jun 14 Jin Hyun Chun              Nagoya, Japan                       W  6
Sep  2 Chakhtep Chuwattana        Tokyo, Japan                        W 10
Dec 15 Phaktai Lipovitan          Osaka, Japan                        W 10

1981
Apr 22 Chul Ho Kim                Seoul, South Korea                  L 15
          -WBC Super Flyweight Championship of the World
Jun 29 Berlin Olivetti            Osaka, Japan                       KO  2
Aug  9 Kwang-Soo Lee              Tokyo, Japan                        W 10
Oct 10 Ali Baba Lukklongtan       Tokyo, Japan                       KO  5
Nov 25 Tito Abella                Osaka, Japan                       KO  4

1982
Apr  8 Rafael "Rafaelito" Pedroza Osaka, Japan                        W 15
          -WBA Super Flyweight Championship of the World
Jul 29 Gustavo Ballas             Osaka, Japan                       TK  9
          -WBA Super Flyweight Championship of the World
Nov 11 Shoji Oguma                Hamamatsu, Japan                   TK 12
          -WBA Super Flyweight Championship of the World

1983
Feb 24 Luis Ibanez                Tsu, Japan                         KO  8
          -WBA Super Flyweight Championship of the World
Jun 23 Roberto Ramirez            Sendai, Japan                       W 15
          -WBA Super Flyweight Championship of the World
Oct  6 Soon Chun Kwon             Osaka, Japan                       TW 11
          -WBA Super Flyweight Championship of the World

1984
Mar 15 Celso Chavez               Osaka, Japan                       TK 15
          -WBA Super Flyweight Championship of the World
Jul  5 Payao Poontarat            Osaka, Japan                        W 12
          -WBC Super Flyweight Championship of the World
Nov 29 Payao Poontarat            Kumamoto, Japan                    TK 11
          -WBC Super Flyweight Championship of the World

1985
May  9 Julio Soto Solano          Tokyo, Japan                        W 12
          -WBC Super Flyweight Championship of the World
Sep 17 Kazuo Katsuma              Osaka, Japan                       TK  7
          -WBC Super Flyweight Championship of the World
Dec 13 Suk Hwan Yun               Daegu, South Korea                 TK  5
          -WBC Super Flyweight Championship of the World

1986
Mar 30 Gilberto Roman             Itami, Japan                        L 12
          -WBC Super Flyweight Championship of the World


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

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