is a Japanese former professional boxer. He is a former WBA

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champion who is best known for knocking out James Kirkland in a

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bout at the

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in April 2011. Ishida has so far been promoted by Canelo Promotions and

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among others and has been co-trained by Rudy Hernández and Daisuke Okabe, while residing back and forth between

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and

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, Japan.

Early life and amateur career

Ishida was born in

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and moved to

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soon after. He began boxing at the Osaka Teiken Boxing Gym at the sixth grade of elementary school (at age eleven). When Ishida was a high school freshman, he fought as an in-fighter in the

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division at 176 centimeters (5 feet 10 inches) tall. He won the national high school invitational tournament in the

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division in 1993. After graduating from

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, Ishida won another amateur title in the

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in 1998. He compiled an amateur record of 101–15 (50 KOs). Ishida worked for the

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for two years and two months from August 1998. He paused his boxing career to pursue studies, and qualified as a

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secretary. Ishida worked at an

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. His experience of living with the orphans motivated him to turn professional.

Professional career

Super Welterweight

Ishida restarted his boxing career in 2000. He made his professional debut on May 20 of that year under the management of Kanazawa Boxing Gym. There he received Toshihiro Fujitani's guidance until the end of 2010. Ishida won the

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title via a

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on March 1, 2001. The bout was stopped in the eleventh round as Ishida's right eye was injured after the accidental

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. He managed to get his first title in his sixth match. He lost the unification match against the OPBF

champion by a twelve-round

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on May 13, 2001. That was his first loss in his professional career. Ishida lost the Japanese super welterweight title shot in his next fight on September 24 of that year by a ten-round

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. In June and October, 2002, Ishida fought for the OPBF and interim Japanese title respectively in the same weight division, but lost two in a row. At that time, Ishida trained in Los Angeles for the first time to get out of the slump. He watched the boxing matches in

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and felt that he would like to someday fight there.

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noted the words of Ishida in his book published in 2006. Ishida married on Christmas Day, 2003. His wife has worked as a clinical psychologist. They have one daughter and two sons. Ishida captured the vacant Japanese super welterweight title on December 2, 2006, and defended the title twice before vacating it. He has often trained under the guidance of Rudy Hernández at the Maywood Boxing Club in

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. When Ishida who used to be a in-fighter outpointed the WBA number six and WBC number seven ranked Javier Alberto Mamaní with scores of 100–91, 100–91, 98–94 in October 2007, he had turned into a good defensive out-fighter controlling the fight with his left jabs and forehand blows.

Interim WBA World title

Ishida won the WBA super welterweight title eliminator over

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Marco Antonio Avendaño via a

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at the

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on September 22, 2008. He had decided to be a bullfighter for that fight. However, the world title shot against the regular champion Daniel Santos did not materialize. Ishida won the interim WBA world super welterweight title over Avendaño via a wide margin unanimous decision in front of spectators including one hundred children and staff whom he invited from the orphanage where he had worked before his professional debut, at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium on August 30, 2009. In order to make that matchup, his manager Kanazawa mortgaged building which served as the gym and his home. The purse was not paid to Ishida. Although it was an interim title, no Japanese boxers have regained the world super welterweight title since

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was dethroned in February 1982. Yet, on that day, the

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where the historical change of government occurred was made in Japan, so Ishida's fight was broadcast only on a pay TV channel, sky-A sports+. Santos lost the title to

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in November 2009. Ishida was eager to fight in a unification match against Foreman, saying that he would go anywhere in the world for it and was confident to win it with his own fighting style and with a way which he most want to show to the audience. But Foreman lost the title in his first defense against

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in June 2010, and Ishida's matchup against Cotto did not happen. In the first defense of the interim title on December 29, 2009, Ishida defeated Colombian Oney Valdéz by a unanimous decision after knocking him down in the tenth round on the undercard of

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's non-title

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ten round bout at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium. While he had been negotiating to fight against

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arbitrarily released the fight against Ishida in the United States in late August 2010. So the negotiations for the fight between Ishida and Álvarez were halted. When the WBA upgraded Cotto to the status of a super champion in September of that year, Ishida was not automatically promoted to a regular champion. The WBA instructed Ishida and Trout to compete for the vacant WBA regular title. Ishida and Trout were supposed to bid for the match at the WBA headquarters on September 21, but both sides did not participate in it, so the bid was not met. After more twists and turns, the WBA decided Álvarez as Ishida's opponent for the vacant WBA world title, and announced it on their official website in late September. Ishida fought against Rigoberto Álvarez for the vacant WBA world super welterweight championship as his first expedition match in

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on October 9, 2010, and lost there. It was after several hours of the fight that Ishida was informed that the result was a narrow split decision with scores of 112–115, 113–114 and 114–113. Ishida does not think that he lost the fight, partially because of the controversial knock down call against Ishida in the seventh round which appeared to have been a slip, but he did not protest the decision. In the WBA official ratings published on October 15, Álvarez was designated as an interim champion, Ishida was ranked number four, and the regular champion remained vacant. The JBC (Japan Boxing Commission) immediately asked the WBA about the title of that fight. Instead of a reply, the WBA posted an article where they released the championship for the vacant regular title between Álvarez and Trout in December on their official website. As the WBA ordered, Ishida vs. Álvarez was held as a regular championship by the promoter. Ishida, Álvarez,

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which aired that fight and the media in many countries had recognized that they fought for the world title. Nevertheless, after all, it was positioned as per the WBA official ratings as a defense of the interim title which Ishida had held. After that defeat, Ishida's team had to change his fighting style yet again, especially because once he decided to fight outside of his own country. Ishida signed a management contract with Japan's Green-Tsuda Boxing Club and a three-fight promotional contract with Mexico's Canelo Promotions under the supervision of Edison Reynoso who handled the previous fight.

Middleweight

Ishida vs. Kirkland

Ishida moved up in weight division to knock out the previously undefeated James Kirkland whose record was 27–0 (24 KOs), flooring him three times in one minute and fifty-two seconds of the first round in an eight-round

bout on the

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televised undercard of Erik Morales vs. Marcos Maidana at the

on April 9, 2011, in less than a month after the Tōhoku earthquake. Nori Takatani (who was the manager of

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, Oscar Albarado and others), Rudy Hernández, Daisuke Okabe and Hidenobu Honda from Green-Tsuda (who was the Japanese champion and two-time world title challenger) were in Ishida's corner. The fight was released just about two weeks before the fight. During the short preparation time, Ishida trained in Las Vegas and California, including sparring with big boxers such as

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. Prior to the fight, Ishida's team decided to never throw roundhouse punches, and was careful with where on the ring he should be. The announcer

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said that it was a bigger upset than Buster Douglas beating

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in 1990. It was voted as the Upset of the Year in '' The Rings 83rd Annual ''Ring'' Awards and

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's 2011 Boxing Awards. In addition, in the RingTV.com's year-end polls for 2011, it attracted 22.6 percent of the vote for the Upset of the Year (ranking third), and 9.2 percent of the vote for the KO of the Year (ranking second by a large margin). Ishida was not happy with the status of the former interim champion, and was still not satisfied with knocking out Kirkland on such a big stage. After that upset, Reynoso announced he has a big plan for Ishida. Sampson Lewkowicz, the adviser of Sergio Martínez, made an offer to Ishida as one of the possible opponents for Martínez. Ishida was once scheduled to fight Paul Williams at a maximum weight of 155 pounds on July 9, 2011, at the

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. However it was canceled. Soon as

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told that Ishida was his possible opponent, Ishida phoned from

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, and welcomed the match. They had been negotiating the fight, but it was not also signed. Despite the efforts of Eric Gomez, the vice president and matchmaker of Golden Boy Promotions, Ishida's opponent was quite undecided. According to a YouTube video by Canelo Promotions and Ishida's blog as of November 2011, although Ishida is most comfortable in the middleweight division, he is willing to move in weight classes, since he thinks he had better prepare the opportunity in possible multiple classes than pick a weight class, until the right offer comes. Having trained in Los Angeles from July 2011, he served as

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's sparring partner at his training camp in Mexico from November of that year. Ishida won by a technical knockout in the first round against late substitute opponent Edson Espinoza on the undercard of Saúl Álvarez vs. Kermit Cintrón on November 26, 2011.

Return to Super Welterweight

Ishida vs. Williams

Ishida fought against Paul Williams in a twelve-round super welterweight bout held as the main event on ''

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'' at the

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in Corpus Christi,

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, on February 18, 2012. (includes links to video) For that fight, he sparred with Hugo Centeno, Jr., Ray Rivera and others, in Maywood,

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and

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. Ishida made it an inside fight where power punches accounted for a larger proportion than jabs. Williams' bodywork skills and holding tactics did not allow Ishida to throw accurate punches, compared with the five fights against Kirkland, Álvarez, Valdéz and Avendaño twice. Ishida's single shots and not many combinations, although they were sometimes shorter and sharper than those of his opponent as were his characteristic ways and made Williams' face swollen, were not enough to make up for the lack of power and physical strength which has often been pointed out. He lost the fight via a unanimous decision by the identical scores of 108–120, but managed to put himself in position to earn another decent opportunity. Ishida's rankings dropped slightly to number three and number nine in the WBA super welterweight and WBO middleweight, respectively.

Return to Middleweight

Ishida vs. Pirog

Subsequently, Ishida lost to

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via a unanimous decision in the WBO middleweight title bout at the Sport Complex Krylatskoe in

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on May 1 of that year. As the JBC had been hesitant to allow that fight, Ishida resigned his JBC license on April 27, 2012. Hence, Ishida had not been permitted to fight in Japan from that time forward in principle. He has been licensed in California and Texas. In June 2012, Ishida underwent surgery to remove bone chips in his left elbow that had plagued him for years.

Ishida vs. Golovkin

On March 15, 2013, just before the JBC joined the WBO and the

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, they gave Ishida permission to fight under the JBC license. Thus, he is allowed to fight anywhere in the world. Ishida fought for the WBA and IBO middleweight titles against Gennady Golovkin at the Salle des Étoiles in

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on March 30, 2013. The bout was co-featured to the "Monte Carlo Million Dollar Super Four", a

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elimination tournament. He was knocked out for the first time in his career by Golovkin's overhand right in the third round. Ishida made a return to the ring in Japan in August 2013.

Professional boxing record

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, align=left, , -align=center , Loss , 22–6–2 , align=left,

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Tepic, Nayarit Tepic () is the capital and largest city of the western Mexican state of Nayarit, as well as the seat of the Tepic Municipality. Located in the central part of the state, it stands at an altitude of above sea level, on the banks of the Río Mo ...

, align=left, , -align=center , Win , 22–5–2 , align=left, Oney Valdéz , UD , , 12 , 2009-12-29 , , align=left,

, align=left, , -align=center , Win , 21–5–2 , align=left, Marco Antonio Avendaño , UD , , 12 , 2009-08-30 , , align=left,

, align=left, , -align=center , Win , 20–5–2 , align=left, Marco Antonio Avendaño , SD , , 12 , 2008-09-22 , , align=left,

, align=left, , -align=center , Win , 19–5–2 , align=left, Tatsuki Kawasaki , TKO , , 6 , 1:41 , 2008-04-02 , , align=left,

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, align=left, , -align=center , Win , 18–5–2 , align=left, Javier Alberto Mamaní , UD , , 10 , 2007-10-06 , , align=left,

, align=left, , -align=center , Win , 17–5–2 , align=left, Tatsuki Kawasaki , TKO , , 6 , 1:39 , 2007-04-05 , , align=left,

, align=left, , -align=center , Win , 16–5–2 , align=left, Shinsuke Matsumoto , MD , , 10 , 2006-12-02 , , align=left,

, align=left, , -align=center , Win , 15–5–2 , align=left, Hyung-Won Jung , KO , , 4 , 2:39 , 2006-06-11 , , align=left, IMP Hall,

, align=left, , -align=center , -align=center , style="background: #dae2f1", Draw , 14–5–2 , align=left, Takuji Matsuhashi , PTS , , 4 , 2005-11-19 , , align=left,

, align=left, , -align=center , Win , 14–5–1 , align=left, Kōzō Watanabe , UD , , 4 , 2005-08-20 , , align=left,

, align=left, , -align=center , Win , 13–5–1 , align=left, Teruo Nagase , UD , , 4 , 2005-05-07 , , align=left,

, align=left, , -align=center , Win , 12–5–1 , align=left, Yūki Nonaka , UD , , 10 , 2004-12-22 , , align=left, Nanba Grand Kagetsu,

, align=left, , -align=center , Loss , 11–5–1 , align=left, Crazy Kim , UD , , 10 , 2004-06-14 , , align=left,

, align=left, , -align=center , Win , 11–4–1 , align=left, Shinsuke Matsumoto , MD , , 8 , 2004-04-23 , , align=left,

, align=left, , -align=center , Win , 10–4–1 , align=left, Akira Ōhigashi , UD , , 10 , 2003-09-26 , , align=left,

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, align=left, , -align=center , Win , 9–4–1 , align=left, Toshihiko Itagaki , UD , , 8 , 2003-07-09 , , align=left,

, align=left, , -align=center , Win , 8–4–1 , align=left, Jō Asano , TKO , , 2 , 1:02 , 2003-04-14 , , align=left,

, align=left, , -align=center , Loss , 7–4–1 , align=left, Toshiharu Kaneyama , UD , , 10 , 2002-10-10 , , align=left,

Ryōgoku Kokugikan , also known as Ryōgoku Sumo Hall or Kokugikan Arena, is the name bestowed to two different indoor sporting arenas located in Tokyo. The fist ''Ryōgoku Kokugikan'' opened its doors in 1909 and was located on the lands of the Ekōin temple in Ry ...

, align=left, , -align=center , Loss , 7–3–1 , align=left, Nader Hamdan , UD , , 12 , 2002-06-20 , , align=left,

, align=left, , -align=center , Win , 7–2–1 , align=left, Moechrody , KO , , 5 , 1:04 , 2001-03-01 , , align=left,

, align=left, , -align=center , -align=center , style="background: #dae2f1", Draw , 6–2–1 , align=left, Kevin Kelly , SD , , 10 , 2001-12-03 , , align=left,

, align=left, , -align=center , Loss , 6–2 , align=left, Jōya Kawai , MD , , 10 , 2001-09-24 , , align=left,

Yokohama Arena is an indoor arena located in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The capacity of the arena is 17,000 and was opened in 1989. The arena was modeled after US sports venue Madison Square Garden in New York City. It is a five-minute walk from the ...

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, align=left, , -align=center , Loss , 6–1 , align=left, Seiji Takechi , UD , , 12 , 2001-05-13 , , align=left, Sakaide Saty Hall, Kagawa, Japan , align=left, , -align=center , Win , 6–0 , align=left, Kook-Yul Song , TD , , 11 , 2:11 , 2001-03-01 , , align=left,

, align=left, , -align=center , Win , 5–0 , align=left, Boy Nituda , KO , , 2 , 0:59 , 2000-12-12 , , align=left, Maizu Arena,

, align=left, , -align=center , Win , 4–0 , align=left, Tata Regatuna , KO , , 2 , 2:03 , 2000-10-02 , , align=left,

, align=left, , -align=center , Win , 3–0 , align=left, Haris Pujono , UD , , 8 , 2000-08-27 , , align=left,

, align=left, , -align=center , Win , 2–0 , align=left, Eiji Nakamura , UD , , 6 , 2000-07-02 , , align=left, Tomioka Gymnastic School,

, align=left, , -align=center , Win , 1–0 , align=left, Hiroaki Obata , UD , , 6 , 2000-05-20 , , align=left,

, align=left,

Titles and recognitions

;''Amateur titles:'' *The 4th National High school Boxing Invitational Championships

Lightweight Lightweight is a weight class in combat sports and rowing. Boxing Professional boxing The lightweight division is over 130 pounds (59 kilograms) and up to 135 pounds (61.2 kilograms) weight class in the sport of boxing. Notable lightweight boxe ...

Tournament Winner *The 50th All Japan Citizen Boxing Championships

Light Middleweight Light middleweight, also known as junior middleweight or super welterweight,PeBoxRec/ref> is a weight class in combat sports. Boxing The light middleweight division (also known as junior middleweight in the IBF or super welterweight in the WBA an ...

Winner ;''Professional titles:'' *The 2nd B:Tight!

Super Welterweight Light middleweight, also known as junior middleweight or super welterweight,PeBoxRec/ref> is a weight class in combat sports. Boxing The light middleweight division (also known as junior middleweight in the IBF or super welterweight in the WBA an ...

Tournament Winner *The 22nd

Super Welterweight Champion (Defense: 0) *The 28th Japanese Super Welterweight Champion (Defenses: 2) *Interim WBA World Super Welterweight Champion (Defense: 1) ;''Recognitions:'' *2011 ''The Ring''

Upset of the Year '' The Ring'' magazine was established in 1922 and has since named an Upset of the Year since 1970. The award, based on the magazine's writers' criteria, is given to a fight that resulted in an outcome that was highly contrary to general expectat ...

*2011 ''

Sports Illustrated ''Sports Illustrated'' (''SI'') is an American sports magazine first published in August 1954. Founded by Stuart Scheftel, it was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the National Magazine Award for General Excellence twic ...

'' Upset of the Year

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* * * , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Ishida, Nobuhiro Middleweight boxers Light-middleweight boxers Sportspeople from Kumamoto Prefecture 1975 births Living people World Boxing Association champions World light-middleweight boxing champions World boxing champions Japanese male boxers Sportspeople from Osaka