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Total Fights | 56 |
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Wins | 47 |
Losses | 6 |
Draws | 3 |
No-Contests | 0 |
Title Wins | 5 |
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Title Defenses | 6 |
Title-Fight KOs | 3 |
KO Wins | 25 |
KO Losses | 5 |
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In a professional boxing career spanning 12 years and eight months, Kuniaki Shibata fought 56 times with 47 wins, 6 losses, and 3 draws.
Shibata retired from professional boxing with a record of 47-6-3, which included five world-title wins and six successful title defense fights at two weight classes — featherweight and super-featherweight. He had a 44.6% knockouts-to-fights ratio with 25 of his total 56 fights being knockout wins, three of which were in title fights. Shibata suffered five knockout losses in his career, three of which were in title fights.
His last fight was a 10 round PTS victory over Al Espinosa on November 29, 1977.
Some of Shibata's best fights and notable victories include wins over Hall-of-Famer Vicente Saldivar, Raul Cruz, Nam Chul Chung, Ricardo Arredondo, Ramiro Bolanos, Tamio Negishi, and Abdelkader Ould Makhloufi.
# | Date | Age | Opponent | Res | Via |
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56 | Nov 29, 1977 | 30 | Al Espinosa | Win | PTS |
55 | Oct 12, 1976 | 29 | Susumu Okabe | Win | UD |
54 | Mar 22, 1976 | 28 | Tamio Negishi | Win | UD |
53 | Jul 5, 1975 | 28 | Alfredo Escalera | Loss * | KO2 |
52 | Mar 27, 1975 | 27 | Abdelkader Ould Makhloufi | Win * | UD |
51 | Oct 3, 1974 | 27 | Ramiro Bolanos | Win * | KO15 |
50 | Jun 27, 1974 | 27 | Antonio Amaya | Win * | MD |
49 | Feb 28, 1974 | 26 | Ricardo Arredondo | Win * | UD |
48 | Oct 17, 1973 | 26 | Ben Villaflor | Loss * | KO1 |
47 | Sep 3, 1973 | 26 | Nam Chul Chung | Win | KO2 |
46 | Jun 19, 1973 | 26 | Victor Federico Echegaray | Win * | UD |
45 | Mar 12, 1973 | 25 | Ben Villaflor | Win * | UD |
44 | Feb 3, 1973 | 25 | Kimio Shindo | Win | KO7 |
43 | Oct 7, 1972 | 25 | Andries Steyn | Loss | PTS |
42 | Jul 11, 1972 | 25 | Bert Nabalatan | Win | UD |
41 | May 19, 1972 | 25 | Clemente Sánchez | Loss * | KO3 |
40 | Nov 11, 1971 | 24 | Ernesto Marcel | Draw * | SD |
39 | Aug 1, 1971 | 24 | Hyun Kim | Win | UD |
38 | Jun 3, 1971 | 24 | Raul Cruz | Win * | KO1 |
37 | Mar 7, 1971 | 23 | Vicente Garcia | Win | PTS |
36 | Dec 11, 1970 | 23 | Vicente Saldivar | Win * | RTD12 |
35 | Sep 9, 1970 | 23 | Hyun Kim | Win | UD |
34 | Jul 8, 1970 | 23 | Jose Acosta | Draw | MD |
33 | Apr 15, 1970 | 23 | Yasuo Sakurai | Win | KO10 |
32 | Feb 4, 1970 | 22 | Felipe Torres | Win | UD |
31 | Oct 22, 1969 | 22 | Flash Besande | Win | KO3 |
30 | Sep 10, 1969 | 22 | Fernando Sotelo | Win | KO9 |
29 | Jun 11, 1969 | 22 | Yoshio Ando | Win | KO8 |
28 | Apr 28, 1969 | 22 | Kid Barrios | Win | KO1 |
27 | Mar 24, 1969 | 21 | Koji Ikeda | Win | PTS |
26 | Jan 15, 1969 | 21 | Hubert Kang | Loss | KO6 |
25 | Oct 23, 1968 | 21 | Orlando Medina | Win | UD |
24 | Aug 14, 1968 | 21 | Toshiharu Mori | Draw | TD |
23 | Jul 3, 1968 | 21 | Beto Maldonado | Win | PTS |
22 | Mar 27, 1968 | 20 | Dwight Hawkins | Loss | KO7 |
21 | Mar 1, 1968 | 20 | Ramiro Nides | Win | PTS |
20 | Jan 31, 1968 | 20 | Tiny Palacio | Win | KO5 |
19 | Dec 27, 1967 | 20 | Soo Bok Kwon | Win | KO2 |
18 | Dec 5, 1967 | 20 | Chang Bok Lee | Win | KO2 |
17 | Nov 15, 1967 | 20 | Chang Soo Yun | Win | RTD9 |
16 | Sep 20, 1967 | 20 | Roy Amolong | Win | UD |
15 | Aug 9, 1967 | 20 | Roberto Andrade | Win | KO5 |
14 | Jul 5, 1967 | 20 | Katsutoshi Aoki | Win | KO1 |
13 | Mar 5, 1967 | 19 | Hyun Kim | Win | PTS |
12 | Feb 12, 1967 | 19 | Hiroshi Miyata | Win | KO4 |
11 | Jan 15, 1967 | 19 | Alberto Reyes | Win | PTS |
10 | Dec 11, 1966 | 19 | Kenji Fuse | Win | KO2 |
9 | Oct 23, 1966 | 19 | Atsushi Gunji | Win | KO6 |
8 | Jan 31, 1966 | 18 | Masachika Tokutome | Win | KO5 |
7 | Dec 20, 1965 | 18 | Takao Suzuki | Win | KO1 |
6 | Nov 1, 1965 | 18 | Toshihiko Nojiri | Win | PTS |
5 | Sep 27, 1965 | 18 | Yoshinobu Yokoyama | Win | KO1 |
4 | Sep 2, 1965 | 18 | Masaru Miyazaki | Win | PTS |
3 | Jul 28, 1965 | 18 | Norio Sugimoto | Win | KO1 |
2 | Apr 5, 1965 | 18 | Hitoshi Yoshino | Win | KO1 |
1 | Mar 6, 1965 | 17 | Seiichi Iizuka | Win | KO1 |
* World-title fight
Kuniaki Shibata is a 77-year old retired Japanese professional boxer. He was born in Hitachi, Japan on March 29, 1947. He is a former two-weight-class world champion. His professional boxing career spanned more than 12 years — from 1965 to 1977.
Shibata made his professional boxing debut against Seiichi Iizuka at the age of 17 on March 6, 1965, defeating Iizuka via 1st round KO. He went on to win 20 more consecutive fights after the debut, which included 14 wins via stoppage.
He had his first world title fight at the age of 23 on December 11, 1970 after 35 professional fights, against Vicente Saldivar for the featherweight WBC and The Ring titles. He defeated Saldivar via 12th round RTD to become the featherweight champion of the world.
Shibata has won five world titles at two weight classes. For all the details about Shibata's world title wins and defenses refer to the "Championships" section below.
Shibata had a total of six losses in his professional boxing career.
His last professional fight was a non-title bout against Al Espinosa on November 29, 1977. Shibata won the fight via 10 round PTS. It's been 46 years, 5 months, and 9 days since this fight.
Shibata had a total of 12 world-title fights, which includes winning five world titles and six successful title defenses. He won eight of these fights, lost three, and drew in one.
Kuniaki Shibata fought for world titles in three fights and won all three of them, winning one of them via way of stoppage. In total, he won five belts across two weight classes.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Won | Method |
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Feb 28, 1974 | Ricardo Arredondo | Super-featherweight | WBC | UD |
Mar 12, 1973 | Ben Villaflor | Super-featherweight | WBA, The Ring | UD |
Dec 11, 1970 | Vicente Saldivar | Featherweight | WBC, The Ring | RTD |
Kuniaki Shibata had nine world-title defense fights across two weight classes — featherweight (x3) and super-featherweight (x6). He won six of them and lost three times.
Following is the table of his successful title defense fights, the next section has the fights where he lost his titles.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Defended | Method |
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Mar 27, 1975 | Abdelkader Ould Makhloufi | Super-featherweight | WBC | UD |
Oct 3, 1974 | Ramiro Bolanos | Super-featherweight | WBC | KO |
Jun 27, 1974 | Antonio Amaya | Super-featherweight | WBC | MD |
Jun 19, 1973 | Victor Federico Echegaray | Super-featherweight | WBA, The Ring | UD |
Nov 11, 1971 | Ernesto Marcel | Featherweight | WBC, The Ring | SD (draw) |
Jun 3, 1971 | Raul Cruz | Featherweight | WBC, The Ring | KO |
Kuniaki Shibata lost three world-title defense fights, and lost a total of five titles in these fights.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Lost | Method |
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Jul 5, 1975 | Alfredo Escalera | Super-featherweight | WBC | KO |
Oct 17, 1973 | Ben Villaflor | Super-featherweight | WBA, The Ring | KO |
May 19, 1972 | Clemente Sánchez | Featherweight | WBC, The Ring | KO |
Shibata fought a total of 56 times during his professional career, which includes 12 world-title fights at two weight divisions. These two fights are the highlight of his career.
December 11, 1970: Shibata wins his first world titles by defeating Vicente Saldivar via 12th round RTD. He is now the WBC and The Ring featherweight world champion.
June 3, 1971: Shibata successfully defends the WBC and The Ring featherweight titles against Raul Cruz, winning the fight via 1st round KO.
Shibata knocked out 25 of his 56 opponents. By his last fight, his KO ratio was at 44.6%. Of his total 47 wins, 25 of them were via KO (53.2%).
Shibata's first world-title win were the WBC and The Ring belts at featherweight. He defeated Vicente Saldivar via 12 round RTD to win the titles.
Shibata won five world titles at two weight classes.
Shibata had a total of nine title defense fights. He was successful six times and lost three times.