Miyo Yoshida

Mitsuyo Yoshida (吉田実代, Yoshida Mitsuyo, born 12 April 1988) is a Japanese professional boxer who has held the WBO junior-bantamweight title since 2019. As of April 2020, she is ranked as the world's ninth best active female junior-bantamweight by BoxRec.^[2]

Professional career[]

Yoshida made her professional debut on 28 May 2014, scoring a four-round majority decision (MD) over Ayaka Sato at the Korakuen Hall in Tokto, Japan. Two judges scored the bout 39–37 in favour of Yoshida while the third scored it a draw at 38–38.^[3] After winning her first four fights, she suffered the first defeat of her career against Yuki Koseki on 13 March 2016, losing via unanimous decision (UD) over four rounds with scores of 38–39, 37–39 and 36–40.^[4]

Yoshida bounced back with three victories before defeating Tomomi Takano by UD over six rounds to capture the inaugural Japanese female bantamweight title,^[5] with all three judges scoring the bout 58–57. The bout took place on 6 October 2017 at the Korakuen Hall.^[6] After successfully defending the title in March 2018 against Kai Johnson, winning via six-round UD,^[7] Yoshida defeated Gretel de Paz on 20 August 2018 at the Korakuen Hall to capture the OPBF female bantamweight title. The fight was stopped in the fifth round after Yoshida was cut from an accidental clash of heads, causing the decision to rest on the scorecards over the five rounds that had been contested. Yoshida won via technical decision (TD) with two judges scoring the bout 49–46 and the third scoring it 48–47.^[8]

Following successful defences of her OPBF and Japanese titles in September 2018^[9] and March 2019^[10] respectively, both by UD, Yoshida challenged for her first world title against Casey Morton on 19 June at the Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan. Yoshida won the bout via UD (100–90, 100–90, 99–91) to capture the vacant WBO female junior-bantamweight title.^[11]

Professional boxing record[]

No.	Result	Record	Opponent	Type	Round, time	Date	Location	Notes
17	Win	15–2	Tomoko Okuda	SD	10	29 Jun 2021	Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan	Won WBO female junior-bantamweight title
16	Loss	14–2	Tomoko Okuda	TD	6 (10), 1:38	13 Dec 2020	EDION Arena, Osaka, Japan	Lost WBO junior-bantamweight title
15	Win	14–1	Li Ping Shi	UD	10	31 Dec 2019	Ota City General Gymnasium, Tokyo, Japan	Retained WBO junior-bantamweight title
14	Win	13–1	Casey Morton	UD	10	19 Jun 2019	Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan	Won vacant WBO junior-bantamweight title
13	Win	12–1	Yoshie Wakasa	UD	6	13 Mar 2019	Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan	Retained Japanese female bantamweight title
12	Win	11–1	Phannaluk Kongsang	UD	8	30 Sep 2018	Kagoshima Arena, Kagoshima, Japan	Retained OPBF female bantamweight title
11	Win	10–1	Gretel de Paz	TD	5 (8), 1:39	20 Aug 2018	Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan	Won vacant OPBF female bantamweight title; Fight stopped after Yoshida cut from accidental clash of heads
10	Win	9–1	Kai Johnson	UD	6	8 Mar 2018	Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan	Retained Japanese female bantamweight title
9	Win	8–1	Tomomi Takano	UD	6	6 Oct 2017	Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan	Won inaugural Japanese female bantamweight title
8	Win	7–1	Kim Actub	UD	8	14 May 2017	Kagoshima Arena, Kagoshima, Japan
7	Win	6–1	Yuki Koseki	MD	6	15 Mar 2017	Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan
6	Win	5–1	Kana Fukuda	UD	6	27 Nov 2016	City Bunka Hall, Kagoshima, Japan
5	Loss	4–1	Yuki Koseki	UD	4	21 Sep 2016	Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan
4	Win	4–0	Chisa Tanaka	UD	4	2 Jul 2016	Yano Fitness Center, Zama, Japan
3	Win	3–0	Kana Makino	UD	4	31 May 2016	Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Japan
2	Win	2–0	Yuko Henzan	MD	4	13 Mar 2016	City Gym, Tomigusuku, Japan
1	Win	1–0	Akaya Sato	MD	4	28 May 2014	Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan

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