Yūichi Kasai
| Yūichi Kasai | |
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Kasai at Teiken Boxing Gym in 2010
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| Statistics | |
| Real name | Yūichi Kasai Japanese: 葛西 裕一 |
| Rated at | Junior Featherweight |
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Born |
17 November 1969 Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Boxing record | |
| Total fights | 29 |
| Wins | 24 |
| Wins by KO | 16 |
| Losses | 4 |
| Draws | 1 |
Yūichi Kasai (葛西 裕一 Kasai Yūichi?, born November 17, 1969) is a Japanese boxing trainer and a former three-time world title challenger in the junior featherweight division.
Kasai was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, and trained in Judo as a child before he began boxing at the age of a high school student. He won the Japan's inter-high school championship in the bantamweight division in 1987.
Dropping out of the Senshu University in one year with an amateur record of 44–4 (24 KOs), Kasai made his professional debut as a boxer managed by the Teiken Boxing Gym at the Korakuen Hall on August 12, 1989.
After winning the sixth edition of the annual Japanese boxing series, the Class A Tournament in the junior featherweight division in November 1991, he experienced three away matches in the first half of 1992. With the promotion by the gym's president Akihiko Honda, he studied boxing in the United States. At first he trained in Los Angeles from February 1992, and won via a third-round knockout at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, California. Then he learned under the instruction of Miguel Diaz at the Top Rank Gym while staying in Las Vegas, Nevada, and won two fights there at the Thomas & Mack Center and the Mirage. Back then two Japanese boxers fought only in one match in Las Vegas, but no Japanese stayed there and fought twice.
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