Hideyuki Ohashi (大橋 秀行, Ōhashi Hideyuki, born March 8, 1965, in Yokohama) is a *anese former professional boxer and two-time minimumweight world champion.

Contents

• 1 Professional career
• 2 Post-retirement
• 3 See also
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Professional career

Ohashi dropped out of college to begin a professional boxing career, and made his debut in February, 1985, with the Yonekura Boxing Gym. He won the vacant *anese Light flyweight *le in his 6th professional fight, and in December 1986, he challenged Jung-Koo Chang for the WBC Light flyweight *le, but lost by TKO in the 5th round. Ohashi reclaimed the *anese Light flyweight *le in January 1988, and challenged Chang for the second time in June of the same year, only to lose again by 8th-round TKO. This was Chang's 15th consecutive defense of the WBC *le, and Ohashi was knocked down a total of 7 times in 8 rounds before the referee stopped the contest.

Ohashi challenged Jum-Hwan Choi in January 1990 for the Lineal and WBC Minimumweight *le, and won by KO to claim his first world *le. This win stopped the streak of 21 losses in a row suffered in world *le bouts by *anese boxers. There had been no *anese world champions for over a year before Ohashi won the WBC *le.

Ohashi defended his *le once, before losing to the legendary Ricardo López by TKO in the 5th round. López would go on to defend the WBC *le won from Ohashi 22 times, and retire undefeated.

After two years away from the world stage, Ohashi returned to fight WBA Minimumweight champion Hi-Yong Choi in October 1992. Ohashi won a unanimous 12-round decision to claim his second world *le. He lost to Chana Porpaoin in his first defense, and was forced into retirement at the age of 27, after it was discovered that he had a detached retina. He ended his career with a record of 19-5-0 (12KOs).

Post-retirement

After retiring, he created the Ohashi Boxing Gym (Ohashi Promotions) in his hometown, Yokohama, and currently works as a trainer there. Former WBC Super flyweight champion, Katsushige Kawashima, is trained by Ohashi.

In January 2007, Ohashi served as the head trainer of the *anese team in the BOXING GRAND PRIX 2007 event (held under the partnership of the Teiken Boxing Gym, and Golden Boy Promotions).

He also serves as the president of *an Pro Boxing *ociation (JPBA) and its subsidiary body East *an Boxing *ociation (JPBA-east).

See also

• List of Mini-flyweight boxing champions
• List of WBA world champions
• List of WBC world champions
• List of *anese boxing world champions
• Boxing in *an

References

External links

• Boxing record for Hideyuki Ohashi from BoxRec (registration required)
• Hideyuki Ohashi - CBZ Profile