Fighting Harada

Career, Record, Stats

Fighting Harada is a 81-year-old retired Japanese professional boxer. He is a two-weightclass world champion with 5 world-title wins. In a career spanning 9 years, 10 months, and 16 days, Harada amassed a record of 55-7, which includes 22 wins via KO, 1 of which was in a world-title fight. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF) in 1995.

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LEGEND

Fighting Harada's Boxing Career

Fighting Harada was born in Tokyo, Japan on April 5, 1943. He made his professional debut at the age of 16 years on February 21, 1960 against Isami Masui. Harada defeated Masui via 4th round TKO, making a successful beginning of his pro career.

Harada became a world champion fight at the age of 19 after 27 professional fights. He challenged Pone Kingpetch for the WBA and The Ring flyweight titles and stopped the champion in the 11th of the 15-round fight, winning his first world titles.

He then went on to successfully win the bantamweight (WBA, WBC, The Ring) titles also to become a two-division world champion — and undisputed at bantamweight.

Harada's last fight was a 14th-round KO loss to Johnny Famechon at age 26, on January 6, 1970, in which he was fighting for the WBC featherweight title.

Some of Fighting Harada's best fights have been against Éder Jofre (HOFer), Pone Kingpetch (HOFer), José Medel, and Hiroyuki Ebihara. For a complete list of Harada's best fights and their details, refer to "Best fights of Fighting Harada".

Harada has 7 losses on his record. For details about these losses refer to "Fighting Harada Losses".

Fighting Harada's Boxing Record

#	Date	Age	Opponent	Res	Via
62	Jan 06, 1970	26	Johnny Famechon	loss	KO 14
61	Oct 01, 1969	26	Pat Gonzales	win	KO 8
60	Jul 28, 1969	26	Johnny Famechon	loss	PTS 15
59	Jun 04, 1969	26	Vil Tumulak	win	UD 10
58	Apr 02, 1969	25	Alton Colter	loss	SD 10
57	Dec 04, 1968	25	Roy Amolong	win	KO 2
56	Sep 04, 1968	25	Nobuo Chiba	win	KO 7
55	Jun 05, 1968	25	Dwight Hawkins	win	UD 10
54	Feb 27, 1968	24	Lionel Rose 19 27-2	loss	UD 15
53	Nov 28, 1967	24	Soo Bok Kwon	win	KO 8
52	Sep 25, 1967	24	Hajime Taroura	win	KO 2
51	Jul 04, 1967	24	Bernardo Caraballo	win	UD 15
50	Apr 04, 1967	23	Tiny Palacio	win	UD 12
49	Jan 03, 1967	23	José Medel 28 63-20-6	win	UD 15
48	Oct 25, 1966	23	Antonio Herrera	win	UD 12
47	Aug 01, 1966	23	Dio Espinosa	win	UD 10
46	May 31, 1966	23	Éder Jofre 30 47-1-4	win	UD 15
45	Feb 15, 1966	22	Soo Kang Suh	win	PTS 12
44	Nov 30, 1965	22	Alan Rudkin	win	UD 15
43	Jul 28, 1965	22	Katsuo Saito	win	PTS 12
42	May 18, 1965	22	Éder Jofre 29 47-0-3	win	SD 15
41	Jan 04, 1965	21	Dommy Froilan	win	KO 6
40	Oct 29, 1964	21	Katsutoshi Aoki	win	KO 3
39	Sep 17, 1964	21	Oscar Reyes	win	PTS 10
38	Jul 06, 1964	21	Ray Asis	win	UD 10
37	Feb 14, 1964	20	Somsak Laemfapha	win	KO 2
36	Jan 02, 1964	20	Avelino Estrada	win	KO 5
35	Nov 25, 1963	20	Emile de Leon	win	PTS 10
34	Sep 26, 1963	20	José Medel 25 53-19-5	loss	TKO 6
33	Aug 07, 1963	20	Dommy Balajada	win	UD 10
32	Jun 19, 1963	20	Thira Lodjarengabe	win	RTD 6
31	May 04, 1963	20	Jose Cejuda	win	KO 1
30	Mar 21, 1963	19	Tetsuro Kawai	win	UD 10
29	Jan 12, 1963	19	Pone Kingpetch 27 25-4	loss	MD 15
28	Oct 10, 1962	19	Pone Kingpetch 27 25-3	win	KO 11
27	Jul 23, 1962	19	Little Rufe	win	UD 10
26	Jun 14, 1962	19	Edmundo Esparza	loss	SD 10
25	May 03, 1962	19	Baby Espinosa	win	PTS 10
24	Mar 18, 1962	18	Tadao Kawamura	win	UD 10
23	Jan 12, 1962	18	Kozo Nagata	win	UD 10
22	Dec 10, 1961	18	Ryoji Shiratori	win	KO 6
21	Oct 09, 1961	18	Akio Maki	win	UD 10
20	Sep 09, 1961	18	Sombang Banbung	win	KO 3
19	Jul 31, 1961	18	Akio Maki	win	RTD 8
18	Jun 19, 1961	18	Shigeru Ito	win	UD 10
17	May 01, 1961	18	Ray Perez	win	UD 10
16	Mar 05, 1961	17	Yasuo Fujita	win	UD 6
15	Jan 28, 1961	17	Riichi Tanaka	win	UD 6
14	Jan 05, 1961	17	Tsuyoshi Nakamura	win	UD 6
13	Dec 24, 1960	17	Hiroyuki Ebihara 20 9-0	win	PTS 6
12	Dec 11, 1960	17	Yoshinori Hikita	win	KO 3
11	Nov 07, 1960	17	Hachiro Arai	win	UD 4
10	Oct 28, 1960	17	Sadayoshi Yoshida	win	KO 4
9	Sep 01, 1960	17	Yukio Suzuki	win	UD 4
8	Jul 18, 1960	17	Masaru Kodangi	win	RTD 3
7	Jun 24, 1960	17	Kazuo Morita	win	KO 1
6	Jun 10, 1960	17	Masatake Ogura	win	TKO 3
5	Apr 13, 1960	17	Ken Morita	win	UD 4
4	Apr 04, 1960	16	Yuichi Noguchi	win	UD 4
3	Mar 27, 1960	16	Goro Iwamoto	win	KO 3
2	Mar 02, 1960	16	Mitsuo Motohashi	win	SD 4
1	Feb 21, 1960	16	Isami Masui	win	TKO 4

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