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in the
minimumweight (105
lb) division and former
WBA world minimumweight champion.
Professional boxing career
Niida belonged to the Yokohama Hikari Boxing Gym, his trainer was Mitsunori Seki and Hidefumi Oikawa. He first won the WBA minimumweight title at the
Pacifico Yokohama
Pacifico Yokohama (パシフィコ横浜, ''Pashifiko Yokohama''), officially known as , is a convention and exhibition center in Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. The center located in the western tip of waterfront Minato Mirai 21 district ...
on August 25, 2001, when he defeated
Chana Porpaoin
Chana Porpaoin ( th, ชนะ ป.เปาอินทร์; born 1966-03-25 in Lom Sak District, Phetchabun Province, Thailand) is a Thai boxer. Chana and his younger brother, Songkram Porpaoin, became only the second set of twins to both ca ...
by unanimous decision.
[BoxRec.com editors]
"Yutaka Niida."
BoxRec.com. URL accessed July 17, 2006. On October 22 only two months later, Niida vacated the title, with the intention of retiring due to back problems and lost interest in boxing.
Niida returned two years later and challenged
Noel Arambulet for the title at the same venue, but Niida suffered his first loss, by split decision.
Niida fought against Arambulet again at the
Korakuen Hall on July 3, 2004; this time Niida won the title by unanimous decision in addition to Arambulet not making the weight.
Niida has successfully defended the title seven times since he regained it, winning his last defense occurring against Jose Luis Varela at the Korakuen Hall on March 1, 2008 by knockout in the 6th round. However Mitsunori Seki died from a
subarachnoid hemorrhage on June 6, 2008, his death gave Niida an intense shock.
Yutaka Niida lost his title via a fourth-round TKO at the Pacifico Yokohama on September 15, 2008 to Nicaragua's
Román González. Presumably, he hung his gloves after the fight. Niida won the achievement award for the 41st
Japan Professional Sports Grand Prize
is given to one sportsperson or sports team every year since 1968 by the Japan Professional Sports Association. The award is one of the most prestigious all-sport awards in Japanese sport. The recordholders are the baseball players Ichiro Suzuk ...
that year.
In 2010, Niida founded a public company "World Famous" named after the entrance song of his champion days created by the Japanese rapper BiARD for him, and established a sports gym "Body Design 新井田式 (which means Niida method)" in Yokohama on November 20. Hidefumi Oikawa also works as one of ten or so trainers in this gym.
Professional boxing record
See also
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List of WBA world champions
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List of strawweight boxing champions
This is a list of world mini-flyweight boxing champions (also known as minimumweight or strawweight), as recognized by the four major sanctioning organizations in boxing:
* The World Boxing Association (WBA), established in 1921 as the National B ...
*
List of Japanese boxing world champions
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Boxing in Japan
References
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1978 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Yokohama
World Boxing Association champions
Mini-flyweight boxers
World mini-flyweight boxing champions
Japanese male boxers
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