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Shigeji Kaneko

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Nationality
  
Japanese

Total fights
  
65

Draws
  
1

Wins by KO
  
33

Wins
  
54

Losses
  
10

Rated at
  
Featherweight, super featherweight

Born
  
13 August 1931 Tsubame, Niigata, Japan (
1931-08-13
)

Died
  
2 January 2016, Tokyo, Japan

Division
  
Featherweight, Super featherweight

Shigeji Kaneko (Japanese: 金子繁治, 13 August 1931 – 2 January 2016) was a Japanese featherweight boxer during the 1950s. He fought Gabriel "Flash" Elorde four times, winning them all. He was also a boxing promoter from the 1980s until the early 2000s.

Shigeji died from progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) on 2 January 2016 in Tokyo. He was 84.

References

Shigeji Kaneko Wikipedia