Satoshi Shimizu

Satoshi Shimizu
Statistics
Weight(s) Featherweight
Height 179 cm (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Nationality Japanese
Born (1986-03-13) March 13, 1986
Sōja, Okayama[2]
Boxing record
Total fights 7
Wins 7
Wins by KO 7
Losses 0
Medal record
Men's amateur boxing
Representing  Japan
Olympic Games
2012 London Bantamweight
Asian Championships
2009 Zhuhai Featherweight

Satoshi Shimizu (清水 聡, Shimizu Satoshi, born March 13, 1986 in Okayama[3]) is a Japanese professional boxer who has held the OPBF featherweight title since 2017. As an amateur, he won the bronze medal in the men's bantamweight division at the 2012 Olympics.[4]

Personal career

He is currently an employee of a children’s clothing maker, Miki House. He was Second lieutenant in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force in 2012,[5][6] and was affiliated with his alma mater, Komazawa University in 2008.[3][5][7]

Boxing career

Shimizu started boxing at a gym in Kurashiki, Okayama in the third grade of junior high school.[8]

2008 Summer Olympics

He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics at featherweight (– 57 kg) but lost his first bout 9–12 to Yakup Kılıç.[3] He was not happy about the judgement,[9][10] and turned down the offers to sign professional contracts in order to win a medal at the Olympics.[8] He secured the bronze medal in the featherweight division in the 2009 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships in Zhuhai, China,[11] and won the National Sports Festival of Japan in the lightweight division to become a three-division champion of that title in the same year.[12]

In January 2010, he had surgery on the shoulder injury that has plagued him for years, and won the regional round of the National Sports Festival all by RSC in the lightweight division.[13] Only one week after that, he moved down in weight class to the bantamweight division because the featherweight division has been removed in the AIBA events for the 2012 Summer Olympics since September 2010,[13][14] and participated in the Asian Games, but lost in the quarterfinals.[11]

2012 Summer Olympics

Shimizu qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics in the bantamweight division. He beat Isaac Dogboe 10-9, then was initially declared the loser in his second fight by Magomed Abdulhamidov of Azerbaijan due to controversial judging and refereeing. At the beginning of the third round, he was trailing Abdulhamidov by 7 points; however, in the last 2 minutes of that round, Abdulhamidov began to tire. Shimizu repeatedly knocked his opponent down, 6 times in total.[Video 1] AIBA officially overturned the ruling after an appeal by the Japanese Coach stating that Abdulhamidov should have been given at least 3 warnings and therefore disqualified.

Shimizu defeated Algeria's Mohamed Ouadahi 17–15 in the quarter-finals[15] but lost to Great Britain's Luke Campbell 20–11 in the semi-finals which won him the bronze medal. It was Japan's first men's boxing medal since 1968.[4] Shimizu made a significant contribution to Japan's 2012 Olympic boxing team as an icebreaker.[16] However, the medal was lost in spring 2013.[5]

He decided to join APB (AIBA Pro Boxing) for the right to fight for the gold at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[17] So, he retired from the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, and entered Miki House in April 2014.[5]

Professional boxing record

Professional record summary
7 fights 7 wins 0 losses
By knockout 7 0
No. Result Record Opponent Type Round, time Date Location Notes
7 Win 7–0 Japan Shingo Kawamura TKO 4 (12), 2:43 17 Aug 2018 Japan Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan Retained OPBF featherweight title
6 Win 6–0 South Korea Kyung Min Kwon TKO 8 (12), 1:06 26 Mar 2018 Japan Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan Retained OPBF featherweight title
5 Win 5–0 Philippines Eduardo Mancito TKO 7 (12), 2:08 30 Dec 2017 Japan Cultural Gymnasium, Yokohama, Japan Retained OPBF featherweight title
4 Win 4–0 South Korea Sa Myung Noh TKO 5 (12), 1:54 2 Oct 2017 Japan Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan Won OPBF featherweight title
3 Win 3–0 Japan Takuya Yamamoto TKO 1 (8), 1:49 21 May 2017 Japan Ariake Coliseum, Tokyo, Japan
2 Win 2–0 Philippines Carlo Demecillo KO 3 (8), 1:09 30 Dec 2016 Japan Ariake Coliseum, Tokyo, Japan
1 Win 1–0 South Korea In Kyoo Lee KO 5 (6), 2:13 4 Sep 2016 Japan Sky Arena, Zama, Japan

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Japanese Medalists in London 2012 Olympics". joc.or.jp. Japanese Olympic Committee. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  2. ↑ 防衛省・自衛隊：自衛隊岡山地方協力本部 (in Japanese). Okayama Provincial Cooperation Office of the Japan Self-Defense Forces. 2012. Retrieved August 2, 2012.
  3. 1 2 3 Satoshi Shimizu Biography and Olympic Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
  4. 1 2 "Olympics: Murata reaches final, Shimizu takes bronze in boxing". Kyodo News. August 10, 2012. Retrieved August 10, 2012.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "London medalist Shimizu leaves SDF, joins Miki House". Yomiuri Shimbun. Archived from the original on 2014-04-13. Retrieved August 18, 2016.
  6. ↑ "SDF Personnel Who Are Active on the World Stage" (PDF). Ministry of Defense (Japan). 2012. p. 36. Retrieved August 28, 2012.
  7. ↑ "2008 Beijing Summer Olympics - SHIMIZU Satoshi Profile & Bio, Photos & Videos - NBC Olympics". NBCUniversal. 2008. Archived from the original on August 8, 2008. Retrieved August 2, 2012.
  8. 1 2 Yuri Ishihama (August 12, 2012). "Shimizu stuck to plan after rejecting pro offer" (in Japanese). Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved August 29, 2012.
  9. ↑ Ed Odeven (August 16, 2008). "Japan's boxers lose in first round". The Japan Times. Retrieved August 22, 2012.
  10. ↑ Padraic Halpin/Alison Wildey (August 1, 2012). "Boxing: Judges under fire amid "fix" claims". Reuters UK. Retrieved August 22, 2012.
  11. 1 2 "Biographies for Satoshi Shimizu". Asian Boxing Confederation. 2013. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
  12. ↑ チーム駒大、国体で優勝ラッシュ! (in Japanese). Komadai Sports Newspaper. October 6, 2009. Retrieved August 29, 2012.
  13. 1 2 予想を裏切り続ける清水 聡のスイッチ (in Japanese). Physical Training School of the Self Defense Forces. 2010. Retrieved August 29, 2012.
  14. ↑ "AIBA drops Featherweight division". New Vision. September 11, 2009. Archived from the original on October 5, 2013. Retrieved August 29, 2012.
  15. ↑ "Olympics-Men's boxing bantamweight quarter-finals results". Reuters. August 5, 2012. Retrieved August 5, 2012.
  16. ↑ Takashi Satō (August 11, 2012). 清水銅! 準決は大差判定負け. Nikkan Sports (in Japanese). Retrieved August 29, 2012.
  17. ↑ Hisao Adachi (March 6, 2014). "Satoshi Shimizu va en el boxeo olìmpico". NotiFight.com (in Spanish). Retrieved April 13, 2014.

Video references

  1. ↑ Boxing Men's Bantam (56kg) Round of 16 Replay - London 2012 Olympic Games (YouTube video). IOC. August 1, 2012. Event occurs at 51:44. Retrieved August 16, 2012.
Sporting positions
Regional boxing titles
Preceded by
Sa Myung Noh		 OPBF featherweight champion
2 October 2017 – present		 Incumbent
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