Tadashi Mihara


Tadashi Mihara is a Japanese 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 title of the All-Japan Amateur Boxing Championships in the light middleweight division in 1977. He also got the group title of the university league as a captain of the Nihon University boxing club. He experienced 38 matches during his amateur career; winning 28 and losing 10.
After that, as a professional, Mihara fought 25 times between 1978 and 1985; winning 24 and losing 1. He won his first title in his fifth contest as a professional, beating Jae-Keum Lim for the OPBF title, 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 title after this, Mihara fought against Rocky Fratto for the vacant WBA world junior middleweight title in Rochester, New York on November 7, 1981. Mihara knocked him down by his right cross in the fourth round, and won the title 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 title 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 Japanese junior middleweight title 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.

Professional boxing record

No.ResultRecordOpponentTypeRoundDateLocationNotes
25Win24–1Tricky KawaguchiUD10Mar 28, 1985Korakuen Pingpong Center, Tokyo, Japan
24Win23–1Takanobu SuzukiKO4 Jun 28, 1984Korakuen Pingpong Center, Tokyo, JapanRetained Japanese light-middleweight title
23Win22–1Kei TsukadaPTS10Feb 23, 1984Korakuen Pingpong Center, Tokyo, JapanRetained Japanese light-middleweight title
22Win21–1Katsuhiro SawadaKO5 Nov 24, 1983Korakuen Pingpong Center, Tokyo, JapanRetained Japanese light-middleweight title
21Win20–1Katsuyoshi KitsumotoPTS10Sep 22, 1983Korakuen Pingpong Center, Tokyo, JapanRetained Japanese light-middleweight title
20Win19–1Yohi AraiPTS10May 26, 1983JapanRetained Japanese light-middleweight title
19Win18–1Yohi AraiTKO9 Feb 14, 1983Kochi, JapanRetained Japanese light-middleweight title
18Win17–1Katsuhiro SawadaKO5 Nov 2, 1982JapanWon Japanese light-middleweight title
17Win16–1Mimoun MohatarUD10May 27, 1982Central Gymnasium, Takasaki, Japan
16Loss15–1Davey MooreKO6 Feb 2, 1982Metropolitan Gym, Shibuya, Tokyo, JapanLost WBA light-middleweight title
15Win15–0Rocky FrattoMD15Nov 7, 1981War Memorial Auditorium, Rochester, New York, U.S.Won vacant WBA world champions#Super welterweight|WBA light-middleweight title]
14Win14–0Ramon DionisioKO5 Jun 25, 1981Astrodome, Houston, Texas, U.S.
13Win13–0Chung-Yul LeeUD12Jan 23, 1981Korakuen Pingpong Center, Tokyo, JapanRetained OPBF light-middleweight title
12Win12–0Kyung Shik KimKO9 Oct 31, 1980JapanRetained OPBF light-middleweight title
11Win11–0Michihiro HorihataUD12May 30, 1980Korakuen Pingpong Center, Tokyo, JapanRetained OPBF light-middleweight title
10Win10–0Ramon DionisioKO7 Feb 23, 1980Prefectural Gymnasium, Tokushima City, JapanRetained OPBF light-middleweight title
9Win9–0Alberto CruzUD10Jan 24, 1980Korakuen Pingpong Center, Tokyo, Japan
8Win8–0Ho JooKO3 Oct 25, 1979JapanRetained OPBF light-middleweight title
7Win7–0Nessie HoriguchiTKO4 Sep 9, 1979City Gymnasium, Takasaki, Japan
6Win6–0Armando BoniquitKO5 Jul 15, 1979Korakuen Pingpong Center, Tokyo, JapanRetained OPBF light-middleweight title
5Win5–0Jae Keun LimKO5 Apr 26, 1979JapanWon OPBF light-middleweight title
4Win4–0Phil RobinsonKO1 Feb 22, 1979Japan
3Win3–0Tsutomu HagusaKO6 Nov 23, 1978Korakuen Hall, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan
2Win2–0Minoru OnoTKO7 Sep 28, 1978Korakuen Hall, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan
1Win1–0Eiji TanakaKO3 Jun 22, 1978Korakuen Hall, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan