Boxing world three-class domination Yaegashi Higashi announces retirement from active duty September 1, 16:07
Yatogashi Higashi, who achieved 3rd class title in professional boxing, said in an online interview that "Professional boxer Yaegashi Higashi decided to retire today".
After that, he said, "I'm really proud that many fans have supported me in my 15-year professional life and I was able to do my best to make professional boxing."
Azuma Yaegashi is 37 years old from Iwate prefecture.
A strong right straight.
Active in high school, university and amateurs, he joined Ohashi Jim and made his professional debut in 2005.
In June 2007, I challenged the World Championship for the first time in the WBC = World Boxing Council minimum class, but I lost the decision.
In this match, I broke my chin and moved away from the ring for about a year.
After returning, he challenged the World Boxing Championship of the WBA = World Boxing Association in October 2011 in the same minimum class and won the technical knockout and became the long-awaited world champion.
In the first defense game in June 2012, WBC minimum weight champion Kazusho Ioka and the Japanese boxing history were the first in the history of Japanese boxing to compete with each other in the world title.
At the end of this match, Yaegashi went up the ranks, and in April 2013, he became the WBC World Champion in the fly class two higher, and won the second rank.
Furthermore, in December 2015, IBF became the Light Flyweight Champion of the International Boxing Federation and achieved three-class victory.
Yaegashi played vigorously after falling from the throne in May 2017, and in December of last year, he challenged the IBF flyweight title match with the aim of returning to the world title for the first time in about two and a half years. did.
In this match, he challenged South African champions head-on, but he lost a technical knockout in the ninth round with a bout of consecutive hits, and he hasn't played since.
His total professional record was 35 wins, 28 wins and 7 losses, of which 16 wins were knockout wins.