Kuniaki Shibata Record

Kuniaki Shibata is a 77-year-old retired Japanese professional boxer. He is a two-weightclass world champion with 5 world-title wins. In a career spanning 12 years, 8 months, and 23 days, Shibata amassed a record of 47-6-3, which includes 25 wins via KO, 3 of which were in world-title fights.

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LEGEND

Boxing Career

Kuniaki Shibata was born in Hitachi, Japan on March 29, 1947. He made his professional debut at the age of 17 years on March 6, 1965 against Seiichi Iizuka. Shibata defeated Iizuka via 1st round KO, making a successful beginning of his pro career.

Shibata became a world champion fight at the age of 23 after 35 professional fights. He challenged Vicente Saldivar for the WBC and The Ring featherweight titles and stopped the champion in the 12th of the 15-round fight, winning his first world titles.

He then went on to successfully win the super-featherweight (WBA, The Ring, WBC) titles also to become a two-division world champion.

Shibata's last fight was a points decision victory over Al Espinosa at age 30, on November 29, 1977.

Some of Kuniaki Shibata's best fights have been against Vicente Saldívar. For a complete list of Shibata's best fights and their details, refer to "Best fights of Kuniaki Shibata".

Shibata has 6 losses on his record. For details about these losses refer to "Kuniaki Shibata Losses".

Fight Record

#	Date	Age	Opponent	Res	Via
56	Nov 29, 1977	30	Al Espinosa	win	PTS 10
55	Oct 12, 1976	29	Susumu Okabe	win	UD 10
54	Mar 22, 1976	28	Tamio Negishi	win	UD 10
53	Jul 05, 1975	28	Alfredo Escalera	loss	KO 2
52	Mar 27, 1975	27	Abdelkader Ould Makhloufi	win	UD 15
51	Oct 03, 1974	27	Ramiro Bolanos	win	KO 15
50	Jun 27, 1974	27	Antonio Amaya	win	MD 15
49	Feb 28, 1974	26	Ricardo Arredondo	win	UD 15
48	Oct 17, 1973	26	Ben Villaflor	loss	KO 1
47	Sep 03, 1973	26	Nam Chul Chung	win	KO 2
46	Jun 19, 1973	26	Victor Federico Echegaray	win	UD 15
45	Mar 12, 1973	25	Ben Villaflor	win	UD 15
44	Feb 03, 1973	25	Kimio Shindo	win	KO 7
43	Oct 07, 1972	25	Andries Steyn	loss	PTS 10
42	Jul 11, 1972	25	Bert Nabalatan	win	UD 10
41	May 19, 1972	25	Clemente Sánchez	loss	KO 3
40	Nov 11, 1971	24	Ernesto Marcel	draw	SD 15
39	Aug 01, 1971	24	Hyun Kim	win	UD 10
38	Jun 03, 1971	24	Raul Cruz	win	KO 1
37	Mar 07, 1971	23	Vicente Garcia	win	PTS 10
36	Dec 11, 1970	23	Vicente Saldivar 27 36-1	win	RTD 12
35	Sep 09, 1970	23	Hyun Kim	win	UD 10
34	Jul 08, 1970	23	Jose Acosta	draw	MD 10
33	Apr 15, 1970	23	Yasuo Sakurai	win	KO 10
32	Feb 04, 1970	22	Felipe Torres	win	UD 10
31	Oct 22, 1969	22	Flash Besande	win	KO 3
30	Sep 10, 1969	22	Fernando Sotelo	win	KO 9
29	Jun 11, 1969	22	Yoshio Ando	win	KO 8
28	Apr 28, 1969	22	Kid Barrios	win	KO 1
27	Mar 24, 1969	21	Koji Ikeda	win	PTS 10
26	Jan 15, 1969	21	Hubert Kang	loss	KO 6
25	Oct 23, 1968	21	Orlando Medina	win	UD 10
24	Aug 14, 1968	21	Toshiharu Mori	draw	TD 3
23	Jul 03, 1968	21	Beto Maldonado	win	PTS 10
22	Mar 27, 1968	20	Dwight Hawkins	loss	KO 7
21	Mar 01, 1968	20	Ramiro Nides	win	PTS 10
20	Jan 31, 1968	20	Tiny Palacio	win	KO 5
19	Dec 27, 1967	20	Soo Bok Kwon	win	KO 2
18	Dec 05, 1967	20	Chang Bok Lee	win	KO 2
17	Nov 15, 1967	20	Chang Soo Yun	win	RTD 9
16	Sep 20, 1967	20	Roy Amolong	win	UD 10
15	Aug 09, 1967	20	Roberto Andrade	win	KO 5
14	Jul 05, 1967	20	Katsutoshi Aoki	win	KO 1
13	Mar 05, 1967	19	Hyun Kim	win	PTS 10
12	Feb 12, 1967	19	Hiroshi Miyata	win	KO 4
11	Jan 15, 1967	19	Alberto Reyes	win	PTS 10
10	Dec 11, 1966	19	Kenji Fuse	win	KO 2
9	Oct 23, 1966	19	Atsushi Gunji	win	KO 6
8	Jan 31, 1966	18	Masachika Tokutome	win	KO 5
7	Dec 20, 1965	18	Takao Suzuki	win	KO 1
6	Nov 01, 1965	18	Toshihiko Nojiri	win	PTS 4
5	Sep 27, 1965	18	Yoshinobu Yokoyama	win	KO 1
4	Sep 02, 1965	18	Masaru Miyazaki	win	PTS 4
3	Jul 28, 1965	18	Norio Sugimoto	win	KO 1
2	Apr 05, 1965	18	Hitoshi Yoshino	win	KO 1
1	Mar 06, 1965	17	Seiichi Iizuka	win	KO 1