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Ioka Juunction, Utah
Ioka may refer to: Places * Ioka, Utah Ioka is an unincorporated community in eastern Duchesne County, Utah, United States. Description The small farming community is located in a "little valley surrounded by bluffs" within the Uintah Basin, approximately northwest of Myton and abo ..., an unincorporated community in eastern Duchesne County, Utah, United States People with the surname *, Japanese boxer *, Japanese boxer, nephew of Hiroki {{disambiguation, surname Japanese-language surnames ...
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Ioka, Utah
Ioka is an unincorporated community in eastern Duchesne County, Utah, United States. Description The small farming community is located in a "little valley surrounded by bluffs" within the Uintah Basin, approximately northwest of Myton and about southwest of Roosevelt It is located on the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation and was named after a Ute chief. The name means "bravado". The main (and the only paved) road in the community is Utah State Route 87 (SR‑87/Ioka Lane/West 3000 South), which runs east‑west through the community. SR‑87 connects with U.S. Route 40/U.S. Route 191 U.S. Route 191 (US 191) is a spur of U.S. Route 91 that has two branches. The southern branch runs for from Douglas, Arizona on the Mexican border to the southern part of Yellowstone National Park. The northern branch runs for from the north ... at its eastern terminus at Ioka Junction, about the east of town. History The community was first settled in 1907 and named Mural (meaning a ...
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Hiroki Ioka
is a Japanese former professional boxer who competed from 1986 to 1999. He has held world championships in two weight class (boxing), weight classes, having held the World Boxing Council, WBC mini-flyweight title from 1987 to 1988, and the World Boxing Association, WBA light-flyweight title from 1991 to 1992. He was the first ever WBC mini flyweight champion, winning the title immediately after the mini-flyweight division was created. Biography Ioka entered the Miwa Tsuda Gym (current Green Tsuda Gym) while attending middle school, and made his professional debut in 1986 at the age of 17. He won the Japanese mini-flyweight title in his eighth professional fight in 1987, and fought for the newly created World Boxing Council, WBC mini-flyweight title the same year, winning by unanimous decision to become the youngest Japanese boxer to win a world title, at 18 years and 9 months old. This record remains unbroken today. Ioka made his first defense against International Boxing Fede ...
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Kazuto Ioka
is a Japanese professional boxer. He is the first male Japanese boxer and fourth Asian to be a four-weight world champion, having held the unified WBA and WBC mini-flyweight titles between 2011 and 2012, the WBA (Regular) light-flyweight title from 2012 to 2014, the WBA flyweight title from 2015 to 2017, the WBO super-flyweight title from 2019 to 2023, and the WBA super-flyweight title since June 2023. As of July 2023, he is ranked as the world’s second-best active super-flyweight by ''The Ring'' magazine, and third by BoxRec and the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board. Amateur career Kazuto Ioka is the nephew of flyweight champion Hiroki Ioka. Kazuto asked his father to teach him how to box as a teenager. His father, Kazunori Ioka, would continue training him through his amateur and professional career. Ioka amassed a record of 95-10 as an amateur, winning six national high school tournaments along the way. He reached the semifinals of the 2008 King's Cup, an amateur bo ...
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