Quote Originally Posted by Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whitaker
Shinji Takehara Won Middleweight title off Jorge Fernando Castro. Nowhere near the best Japanese boxer of all time but i think he might be only Japanese boxer to ever win Middleweight World Title so he for certain deserves a mention.
CC#1504 Pernell... Thanks for your input...
Takehara falls under the honor mentions for me just not enough for top 10.


Quote Originally Posted by penalosafan
If you'd talk about who's the most popular, I'd say Harada, and because of that many sez he's the best. But if you look at it more objectively, I think Gushiken is the best. He became a champ at 20 and held the championship belt for four straight years, defending it 12 consecutive times, which was an Asian record at that time (I think around 1980) - the record that was surpassed after several years by Thai boxer Khaosai Galaxy. While most boxers reach their peak at around their late 20's, Gushiken reached his peak in his early 20's. But unfortunately, the undefeated champ just couldn't take his first defeat and retired right after that when he was only around 24 years of age, never stepping on the ring again as a fighter... But no matter what I say, most would still say Harada was the best and I wouldn't argue with that.
CC#157 penalosa, IMO what hurts Yoko the most is quality of opposition. On title def. and reign as champ he excelled but quality of opp. again hurts him. His toughest opponent was Vargas who contested for a title 4 times fighting Canto twice and fighting Betulio once and Yoko once. Other then that I don't see any other opponent that stands out. Some of them had no business fighting for a title but I will credit him as I said for title defenses & reign as champ/accomplishments. Thanks for your input.