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.
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