Tsuyoshi Hamada
| Tsuyoshi Hamada 浜田 剛史 |
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| Statistics | |
| Real name | Tsuyoshi Hamada Japanese: 浜田 剛 |
| Rated at | junior welterweight |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Born |
29 November 1960 Nakagusuku, Okinawa, Japan |
| Stance | southpaw |
| Boxing record | |
| Total fights | 24 |
| Wins | 21 |
| Wins by KO | 19 |
| Losses | 2 |
| No contests | 1 |
Tsuyoshi Hamada (浜田 剛史 Hamada Tsuyoshi?, born November 29, 1960) is a retired Japanese professional boxer who is a former WBC world junior welterweight champion.
Hamada was born in Nakagusuku, Okinawa, and began boxing at the age of fifteen. He won the Japan's inter-high school championship in the featherweight division in 1978. He had an amateur record of 37–6 (28 KOs).
Having turned professional in 1979, he made his debut under his real name Tsuyoshi Hamada, written as 浜田 剛, in Tokyo on May 21. His ring name was changed into 浜田 剛史, pronounced the same, in 1983.
Hamada fractured his left hand four times since 1981, and received bone grafting twice. Then, he was not able to fight for two years. Hanging his left arm with a triangular bandage, he hit a punching bag only with his right fist. In 1984, after two away matches in Los Angeles, Hamada fought against the former WBA world lightweight champion Claude Noel to knock him out in the fourth round at the Korakuen Hall on September 9. He gained the Japanese lightweight title on December 2 of that year. In 1985, after setting a Japanese record of fifteen consecutive knockout wins, he also captured the OPBF lightweight title in Naha, Okinawa, in the next fight on July 7. However, as he had damaged the meniscus of his right knee before that match, his boxing career was interrupted again. Originally Hamada excelled in the left cross, but during a long period that he underwent medical treatment for his fist injury, he intensively practiced the right hook which brought him a championship belt.
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