About
WBC Featherweight Champion from January-July 2006, became the oldest Japanese boxer to win a world title at 35 years old.
Before Fame
He played baseball as a teenager but took up boxing after his father founded a boxing gym.
Trivia
He took over for his father at the head of the Fukuoka Boxing Gym after retirement from fighting.
Family Life
His father, Hidetake Koshimoto, was previously head of the Fukuoka Boxing Gym.
Associated With
He and Mexican fighter Salvador Sanchez have both been WBC Featherweight champions.
