Takashi Shiohama: Boxing Career and Notable Fights
Takashi Shiohama was a Japanese light-flyweight boxer whose professional career ran from 1993 to 1996. His career included Japanese and OPBF light-flyweight championships before a WBA minimumweight title challenge.
A short, title-winning career
Shiohama won the Japanese light-flyweight title in 1995, then captured the vacant OPBF light-flyweight championship with a July 1996 win over Ric Magramo. The regional reign was brief: title histories list him as champion from July to September 1996. His record is a compact example of how a successful domestic run could lead to an opportunity across the wider Asia-Pacific circuit.
Domestic defenses and a world-title opportunity
Shiohama captured the vacant Japanese belt by stopping Katsunori Zagabi in the eighth round on September 4, 1995. He defended it against Nobuo Murasaki that November, winning a unanimous ten-round decision, then stopped Atsushi Sai in the sixth round in February 1996. The Japanese Boxing Meikan record lists both successful defenses.
His July 17, 1996 win over Magramo came by a fifth-round technical decision. That victory added the OPBF championship to his domestic achievements and extended his unbeaten professional run.
Shiohama then challenged Rosendo Álvarez for the WBA minimumweight title on October 1, 1996, in Kitakyushu. Álvarez won by eighth-round knockout, handing Shiohama his only recorded professional defeat. The bout was contested in the lighter minimumweight division, distinct from the light-flyweight class in which Shiohama had won his Japanese and OPBF belts.
His final record therefore combines national success, a regional championship and a world-title challenge within a relatively short career. Following those steps in order gives a clearer picture of his progress than the win–loss total alone.
Selected career results
Shiohama’s early results included a four-round decision over Yoshihiko Shimomura in May 1993 and a second-round stoppage of Kazuya Takasho that August. He then won a series of decisions in Osaka during 1994 against Joe Saguid, Joel Nice, Rex Remias and Edwin Projo. Two early-round victories over Ronaldo Nebrida and Choichi Sakimukai in 1995 preceded his successful attempt to win the vacant Japanese championship.
Sources
- BoxRec: Takashi Shiohama record
- OPBF title history: light flyweight
- Japanese title history: light flyweight
Sources: https://www.sportenote.com/vedi_dettagli.asp?id=52776
