Akifumi Shimoda (下田 昭文, Shimoda, Akifumi, born September 11, 1984) is a Featherweight boxer from *an and the former world champion of WBA at Super bantamweight. He was born in Sapporo, Hokkaido and grew up in Kure City in Hiroshima Prefecture. He currently lives in Tokyo. Shimoda has trained under Yūichi Kasai's instruction at the Teiken Boxing Gym in Tokyo.

Contents

• 1 Biography
  • 1.1 Debut
  • 1.2 Winning national and international *le
  • 1.3 Winning the world *le
• 2 Professional boxing record
• 3 *les
• 4 Awards
• 5 See also
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Biography

Akifumi Shimoda was born in Kure city of Hiroshima Prefecture, *an on September 11, 1984.

Debut

Shimoda turned professional in 2003. On January 18, 2003, he fought against Kazumasa Watanabe, and won his debut via the first round knockout on 18 January. After this victory, won eleven straight victories.

Winning national and international *le

On April 9, 2007, Shimoda captured the *anese super bantamweight *le and defended it four times. On March 28, 2010, Shimoda captured the OPBF super bantamweight *le, then defended it once.

Winning the world *le

Shimoda won the WBA super bantamweight *le from Korean Ryol Li Lee via a twelfth round unanimous decision in the latter's first *le defence in Tokyo at the Ariake Coliseum on January 31, 2011.

Professional boxing record

*les

• 60th East *an Freshman Tournament Bantamweight winner (November 2, 2003)
• 32nd *anese Super bantamweight champion (Defences: 4)
• 37th OPBF Super bantamweight champion (Defences: 1)
• 31st WBA World Super bantamweight champion (Defences: 0)

Awards

• 2007 Fresh fighter Award (*anese Boxing Commission / December 17, 2007)

See also

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

References

External links

• Shimoda Akifumi Official website
• Boxing record for Akifumi Shimoda from BoxRec (registration required)