Japan my hometown a country with a very rich boxing history and currently has 8 world champions. All together Japan has created over 60 world champions over the last century but they fail at the Olympics miserably every time.
Japan has only had in the past only 3 Olympics medalists in the past and only one gold medal in which Sakurai Takao had won by RSC in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics but that was the last time Japan was able to get even near a Olympic medal of any kind. Time and time again they sent out amateur standouts to fight for a medal but time and time again they fail and most of the amateur standouts today will go on to be a pro for example Ioka Kazuto the unified WBC and WBA Minimum weight champion, he was suppossed to go to the 2008 bejing olympics but failed to qualify. Tomoki Kameda was rejected because he was to young (16) and decided to move to Mexcio and start his pro career and now you see him currently as the WBC super-bantamweight silver champion.
So why does this country with likely more world champions than any other country have so few medals in the Olympics? That is because the level at which the amateur's compete in japan is not as high as you would say America.
Are there any Olympics hopefuls this year? Yes there is actually and he is in the MIDDLEWEIGHT division his name is Murata Ryota currently #2 in the world his record stands at a amazing 133 fights 114 wins 19 losses and 88 ko (RSC) Last year at the Baku world championships he lost a close decisions and was able to get the silver medal which put him in the place to be able to qualify to go to the Olympics in 2012. below is a video of his match
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNYAJ6hJ6M
Japan has only had in the past only 3 Olympics medalists in the past and only one gold medal in which Sakurai Takao had won by RSC in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics but that was the last time Japan was able to get even near a Olympic medal of any kind. Time and time again they sent out amateur standouts to fight for a medal but time and time again they fail and most of the amateur standouts today will go on to be a pro for example Ioka Kazuto the unified WBC and WBA Minimum weight champion, he was suppossed to go to the 2008 bejing olympics but failed to qualify. Tomoki Kameda was rejected because he was to young (16) and decided to move to Mexcio and start his pro career and now you see him currently as the WBC super-bantamweight silver champion.
So why does this country with likely more world champions than any other country have so few medals in the Olympics? That is because the level at which the amateur's compete in japan is not as high as you would say America.
Are there any Olympics hopefuls this year? Yes there is actually and he is in the MIDDLEWEIGHT division his name is Murata Ryota currently #2 in the world his record stands at a amazing 133 fights 114 wins 19 losses and 88 ko (RSC) Last year at the Baku world championships he lost a close decisions and was able to get the silver medal which put him in the place to be able to qualify to go to the Olympics in 2012. below is a video of his match
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNYAJ6hJ6M
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