Sho Kimura | |
Realname: | 木村翔 |
Weight: | Flyweight |
Height: | 5 ft 5 in |
Reach: | 66+1/2 in |
Nationality: | Japanese |
Birth Date: | November 24, 1988 |
Birth Place: | Kumagaya, Saitama, Japan |
Style: | Orthodox |
Total: | 26 |
Wins: | 19 |
Ko: | 12 |
Losses: | 3 |
Draws: | 4 |
is a Japanese professional boxer who held the WBO flyweight title from 2017 to 2018.
on Nov 23, 2016, Kimura defeated Masahiro Sakamoto to win the WBO Asia Pacific flyweight title.[1]
On July 28, 2017, Sho Kimura defeated Zou Shiming by 11th-round knockout to win the title in Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai, China.[2] Kimura entered the fight ranked number 7 by the WBO.[3] He entered the fight as a 10-1 underdog.[4] The fight was promoted by Zou with an entirely new training and management team.[5] [6]
Result | Record | Opponent | Type | Round, time | Date | Location | Notes | ||
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26 | Draw | 19–3–4 | Wulan Tuolehazi | MD | 10 | 25 Jan 2023 | |||
25 | Draw | 19–3–3 | Ryu Horikawa | MD | 8 | 9 May 2022 | |||
24 | Win | 19–3–2 | Merlito Sabillo | TKO | 2 (10), | 15 Feb 2020 | |||
23 | Loss | 18–3–2 | Carlos Cañizales | UD | 12 | 26 May 2019 | |||
22 | Win | 18–2–2 | Wicha Phulaikhao | KO | 3 (10), | 30 Mar 2019 | |||
21 | Loss | 17–2–2 | Kosei Tanaka | MD | 12 | 24 Sep 2018 | |||
20 | Win | 17–1–2 | Froilan Saludar | KO | 6 (12), | 27 Jul 2018 | |||
19 | Win | 16–1–2 | Toshiyuki Igarashi | TKO | 9 (12), | 31 Dec 2017 | |||
18 | Win | 15–1–2 | Zou Shiming | TKO | 11 (12), | 28 Jul 2017 | |||
17 | Win | 14–1–2 | Wisitsak Saiwaew | KO | 2 (8), | 13 May 2017 | |||
16 | Win | 13–1–2 | Masahiro Sakamoto | 12 | 23 Nov 2016 | ||||
15 | Win | 12–1–2 | Thiraphong Phaepho | KO | 1 (10), | 6 Jul 2016 | |||
14 | Win | 11–1–2 | Yamato Uchinono | TKO | 5 (8), | 12 May 2016 | |||
13 | Win | 10–1–2 | Takayuki Teraji | TKO | 3 (8), | 29 Feb 2016 | |||
12 | Win | 9–1–2 | Naoki Shoda | TKO | 1 (6), | 30 Nov 2015 | |||
11 | Win | 8–1–2 | Ryo Narizuka | 6 (8), | 17 Sep 2015 | ||||
10 | Win | 7–1–2 | Kamon Singram | 2 (6), | 25 Jul 2015 | ||||
9 | Win | 6–1–2 | Tomoyuki Kaneko | UD | 5 | 26 May 2015 | |||
8 | Draw | 5–1–2 | Isao Aoyama | MD | 6 | 18 Feb 2015 | |||
7 | Draw | 5–1–1 | Akira Kokubo | 4 | 26 Sep 2014 | ||||
6 | Win | 5–1 | Yuma Kudo | UD | 4 | 1 Jul 2014 | |||
5 | Win | 4–1 | Katsunori Shimooki | UD | 4 | 4 Apr 2014 | |||
4 | Win | 3–1 | Rungkeat Sithsaithong | 4 | 29 Jan 2014 | ||||
3 | Win | 2–1 | Ryo Irie | 4 | 24 Nov 2013 | ||||
2 | Win | 1–1 | Akira Kokubo | 4 | 24 Jul 2013 | ||||
1 | Loss | 0–1 | Shosuke Oji | 1 (4), | 22 Apr 2013 |
Sho Kimura was born in Kumagaya, Saitama, Japan. And currently resides in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. Kimura has one brother and his mother died at the age of 44. At the press conference after the WBO flyweight title fight, Kimura admitted that the big driving factor was his mother. The fighter stated that he was determined to take the title to his mother's grave, as he did with the WBO Asia Pacific title when he won that last year. It's clear that this is a personal mission for him and something that really is a driving factor with his career going forward.[7]
Before winning the WBO flyweight title, Kimura had been working as a deliveryman in Tokyo and was under extreme financial pressure - a hardship experienced by many boxers in the early stages of their career. During this period, Kimura only had time for training in the evenings.