Nobuyuki Enomoto: Career and Regional Title Challenges
Nobuyuki Enomoto was a Japanese professional boxer who competed mainly at light-flyweight and flyweight. The record compiled by Sport & Note lists bouts from 1995 through 2010, including challenges for regional titles.
Title challenges and a bout with Daisuke Naito
Enomoto challenged Pil-Koo Kang for the OPBF light-flyweight title in 2001 and Tatsuo Hayashida for the same title in 2002, but lost both bouts. In the Japan Boxing Commission’s November 2004 ratings, he was ranked No. 1 among Japanese flyweights, behind champion Daisuke Naito.
Naito and Enomoto met twice. Their 1997 four-round bout was recorded as a draw. On April 11, 2005, Enomoto challenged Naito for the Japanese flyweight title and lost over 10 rounds. Sport & Note lists Enomoto’s final record as 18 wins, 9 losses and 4 draws across 31 bouts, with his last recorded fight in 2010.
Further career results
Enomoto was born in Toda, Saitama, on January 30, 1974, and boxed from a southpaw stance. His professional debut came in December 1995, when he stopped Takayuki Sato in the second round in Tokyo. After an early loss to Kiyofumi Fujiwara, he built experience through four-round and six-round contests, including the 1997 draw with Naito. His development continued with eight-round wins over Satoshi Kogumazaka, Hiroyuki Abe and Atsuomi Maeda in 1999. The following year he stopped Flash Villacura and completed ten rounds against Masayuki Kubo. His two OPBF light-flyweight challenges ended differently: Pil-Koo Kang defeated him over twelve rounds in August 2001, while Tatsuo Hayashida stopped him in the tenth round in March 2002. A further regional opportunity came above that weight. In June 2005, after losing the Japanese flyweight challenge to Naito, Enomoto traveled to Bangkok for the vacant OPBF flyweight title. Wanmeechok Singwancha won their twelve-round contest. His return to competition in 2009 included a second-round knockout of Petchek Sithkorpolkanpim, before the final bouts recorded in 2010.
He boxed from a southpaw stance.
Sources
- Sport & Note: Nobuyuki Enomoto record and title bouts
- Japan Boxing Commission: November 2004 ratings
- BoxRec: Daisuke Naito’s professional record
