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Lightweight boxing · 1970s

Yoshiaki Numata

44–8 · 53 recorded bouts · 1962–1972

Yoshiaki Numata finished 27% of 44 wins inside the distance — the 12th percentile for lightweight boxing, where the median is 51%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height67″ (170.2 cm)
StanceOrthodox
DivisionLightweight Boxing
competed at 2: super featherweight, lightweight — compared here against the last
Peak era1970s
CountryJapan

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Yoshiaki Numata, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

1970 win vs Tadao Abe (1962)win vs Nabuyoshi Mizusaki (1962)win vs Kazuji Toji (1962)win vs Kaoru Morita (1962)win vs Toshio Aida (1962)win vs Yasuyuki Orito (1963)win vs Katsuzo Nakamura (1963)win vs Kenzo Shimamura (1963)win vs Noriyoshi Toyoshima (1963)win vs Katsuhiro Sugawara (1963)win vs Kuniaki Masuda (1963)win vs Tatsuo Hokkai (1963)win vs Yasushi Matsuzoe (1963)win vs Susumu Akimoto (1963)win vs Hiroshi Kaneko (1963)win vs Takeo Sugimori (1964)win vs Atom Hatai (1964)win vs Katsumi Yabe (1964)win vs Larry Fernando (1964)win vs Lennie Campos (1964)win vs Jae Keun Yang (1964)win vs Pedro Adigue (1964)loss vs Love Allotey (1965)win vs Antonio Paiva (1965)loss vs Yuji Amashima (1965)win vs Hidemori Tsujimoto (1965)win vs Larry Flaviano (1965)win vs Young Pal Lee (1965)win vs Del Kid Rosario (1966)win vs Gabriel Elorde (1966)win vs Jong Tae Lim (1966)loss vs Kang Il Suh (1966)loss vs Hiroshi Kobayashi (1967)win vs Sae Chun Lee (1967)win vs Gabriel Elorde (1967)win vs Chokchai KrissanachaI (1967)win vs Kwang Joo Lee (1967)draw vs Ruben Navarro (1968)win vs Rosalava Kid (1968)win vs Kang Il Suh (1968)win vs Jun Koiwa (1968)win vs Jun Koiwa (1969)loss vs Mando Ramos (1969)win vs Ricardo Bermisa (1969)win vs Raul Rojas (1970)win vs Raymond Rivera (1970)win vs Chang Bok Lee (1970)win vs Rene Barrientos (1970)draw vs Sumio Nobata (1970)loss vs Ricardo Arredondo (1971)win vs Lionel Rose (1971)win vs Rene Barrientos (1971)loss vs Kenji Iwata (1972)
winlossdraw / NC1962–1972

Record

Boxing record

44–8

55 bouts on record

Finish rate

27%

of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight boxing median 51%, 12th percentile

By knockout: 12 (27%)By decision: 32 (73%)
  • By knockout 27%
  • By decision 73%

The career, bout by bout

53 recorded bouts from 1962 to 1972. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

11y

1962–1972

Longest unbeaten run

22

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1963

10 bouts

Recorded bouts

53

53 with a date

Fights

YearResultOpponentMethodRd
1972 L Kenji Iwata KO/TKO3
1971 L Ricardo Arredondo KO/TKO10
1971 W Lionel Rose Decision15
1971 W Rene Barrientos Decision15
1970 W Raul Rojas KO/TKO5
1970 W Raymond Rivera Decision10
1970 W Chang Bok Lee Decision10
1970 W Rene Barrientos Decision15
1970 D Sumio Nobata Decision10
1969 W Jun Koiwa KO/TKO2
1969 L Mando Ramos KO/TKO6
1969 W Ricardo Bermisa Decision10
1968 D Ruben Navarro Decision10
1968 W Rosalava Kid Decision10
1968 W Kang Il Suh KO/TKO7
1968 W Jun Koiwa Decision10
1967 L Hiroshi Kobayashi KO/TKO12
1967 W Sae Chun Lee Decision10
1967 W Gabriel Elorde Decision15
1967 W Chokchai KrissanachaI Decision10
1967 W Kwang Joo Lee Decision10
1966 W Del Kid Rosario Decision12
1966 W Gabriel Elorde Decision12
1966 W Jong Tae Lim KO/TKO2
1966 L Kang Il Suh Decision10
1965 L Love Allotey KO/TKO4
1965 W Antonio Paiva Decision10
1965 L Yuji Amashima KO/TKO4
1965 W Hidemori Tsujimoto Decision10
1965 W Larry Flaviano Decision12
1965 W Young Pal Lee Decision10
1964 W Takeo Sugimori Decision10
1964 W Atom Hatai KO/TKO5
1964 W Katsumi Yabe Decision10
1964 W Larry Fernando Decision10
1964 W Lennie Campos Decision10
1964 W Jae Keun Yang Decision10
1964 W Pedro Adigue Decision10
1963 W Yasuyuki Orito Decision10
1963 W Katsuzo Nakamura KO/TKO3
1963 W Kenzo Shimamura KO/TKO4
1963 W Noriyoshi Toyoshima Decision6
1963 W Katsuhiro Sugawara Decision6
1963 W Kuniaki Masuda KO/TKO2
1963 W Tatsuo Hokkai Decision4
1963 W Yasushi Matsuzoe Decision4
1963 W Susumu Akimoto Decision4
1963 W Hiroshi Kaneko KO/TKO1
1962 W Tadao Abe Decision4
1962 W Nabuyoshi Mizusaki KO/TKO2
1962 W Kazuji Toji KO/TKO1
1962 W Kaoru Morita Decision4
1962 W Toshio Aida KO/TKO3

11 of these opponents have their own page here.

How this is worked out

  1. Measurements and records are read from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the fight list is parsed from the article's own results table.
  2. Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
  3. Percentiles rank this fighter among the 258 lightweight boxing fighters in the dataset — chosen because it is the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
Reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100

Full methodology →

Source: Yoshiaki Numata on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-25. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.

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