Best "East Asian" Boxers (over 160 lbs)

[Caractacus]

Name some.
Which ones fought for a title ?
which one hit the 'hardest'
which one was the 'fastest" ?

[gilgamesh]

Well we had Ceferino Garcia the Filipino Middleweight Champion. Zhilei Zhang has been a notable Heavyweight contender.

That's really the only ones that even come to mind for me.

[Caractacus]

Yeah, it was Cerferino's surname that threw me off.

[Caractacus]

Says here Koichi Wajima "wins the Middleweight title" but I think it was actually the 'junior or Light-Middleweight title
aka the "Super-welterweight title (?)
Koichi Wajima-height 5 ft 7.5"

Koichi Wajima puttin' the "Hammer-Down"!

[gilgamesh]

A fella named Ki Soo Kim beat Nino Benvenuti. I think it was at 154 though.

[margaret thatcher]

there were some korean smw champs werent there

[566405]

Chong Pal Park- super middleweight champion

In Chul Baek - also Super middleweight champion.

Chong Pal Park was a super middleweight champion at the inception of the division. He made 9 defenses before losing to Fulgencio Obelmeijas . Obelmeijas in turn lost to In Chul Baek. Baek also retired Park with a 9th rd ko in Parks last fight, to earn a shot at Obelmeijas.

Park had a controversial rivalry with Lindell Holmes in which Holmes was the victim of a hometown decision.

Baek on the other hand had a brief moment of prominence when he had previously fought Julian Jackson for the Jr. Middleweight title that had been vacated by Mike McCallum. Jackson blew away Baek in the 3rd in typical Jackson-destructive fashion.

Interestingly, Baek and Park had fairly impressive looking records with high KO percentages. Especially Baek who was 47-3-1 with 43 kosher. Although Baek beat Park, Park was at the end of his career and in all reality was the far more accomplished boxer, with 9 defenses against capable opponents like Vinnie Curto, Murray Sutherland a d the aforementioned Holmes. Baek, upon closer inspection fought the Korean equivalent of the Midwest clubfighter circuit in the US.

All in all 2 very unique and intriguing Korean fighters.

[Caractacus]

Masashi Kudo- yet another 'Junior" middleweight champion !
height 5 ft 8" (173 cm)

[scorpio83]

What about Shinji Takehara the former WBA Middleweight champion?

[Caractacus]

Sinichi "Sonny" Chiba-height 5 ft 10.5 " (1.79 cm)tall
(how good would he have been if he had only laced up the gloves 20 years earlier ?)
here he is in action at age 35 yrs-when most professional boxers would have quit the ring and retired already.

[Cent0089]

Ryota Murata was pretty good, especially in amateurs, remembering watching him at 2011 world and 2012 Olympics. BTW, at 2011 world championship, to get a silver medal, he fought SEVEN fights... dont know if something like that happen before

[Caractacus]

Ki Soo Kim-Korea's first World Boxing Champion.
He won the light-Middleweight Championship and later fought as a middleweight.
height 5 ft 7.5" (172 cm)
reach-69.5 " (176 cm)

[Caractacus]

Je Doo Yuh
height 5 ft 9".
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[2436546]

I think Murata was faster overall, but Zhang definitely got the heavier hands. geometry dash wave

[JC]

Bivol and Golovkin are both half Korean ancestry.


Kostya Tszyu has part Korean and Mongol ancestry.

90s WBC featherweight champ In Jin Chi was tough as hell.

edit: sorry, missed the above 160lbs bit

[Caractacus]

Can you imagine if this dude had ever laced up the gloves ?
Yang Sze aka Bolo Yeung - he was only 5 ft 6 inches tall and weighed 175 lbs.
( but had a "killer" instinct")
He was a former Mr. Hong Kong" and pumped iron 9 hours a day .