Tadashi Mihara (三原 正, Mihara Tadashi, born 30 March 1955 in Gunma, *an) is a former professional boxer who competed as a light middleweight throughout his career.

Mihara began his boxing career when he was a third grader of the high school. He won the *le of the All-*an Amateur Boxing Championships in the light middleweight division in 1977. He also got the group *le of the university league as a captain of the Nihon University boxing club. He experienced 38 matches during his amateur career; winning 28 (15 by knockout) and losing 10.

After that, as a professional, Mihara fought 25 times between 1978 and 1985; winning 24 (15 by knockout) and losing 1. He won his first *le in his fifth contest as a professional, beating Jae-Keum Lim for the OPBF *le, a belt that he defended six times until he returned it. In June 1981, he won via a fifth-round knockout, in the undercard of Ayub Kalule vs. Sugar Ray Leonard, at the Reliant Astrodome, Houston. Since Leonard vacated the *le after this, Mihara fought against Rocky Fratto for the vacant WBA world junior middleweight *le in Rochester, New York on November 7, 1981. Mihara knocked him down by his right cross in the fourth round, and won the *le via a majority decision. Judge Harold Lederman scored the fight a draw. Afterwards he said of Mihara, "There's no doubt that he's got a good jaw. He really got tagged a couple of times. I thought Fratto was going to knock him out." He lost his *le after suffering a knockout during his first defence, against Davey Moore at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on February 2, 1982. His lumbago became chronic from these days. Following this loss, Mihara won the *anese junior middleweight *le and defended it six times until June 1984, then returned it. He fought for a final time in March 1985, beating Tricky Kawaguchi by a unanimous decision.

Contents

• 1 Professional boxing record
• 2 See also
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Professional boxing record

See also

• List of WBA world champions
• List of super welterweight boxing champions
• List of *anese boxing world champions
• Boxing in *an

References

External links

• Boxing record for Tadashi Mihara from BoxRec (registration required)