Yuta Kubo
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Yuta Kubo 久保 優太 |
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| Born | Kubo Yūta [kubo juːta] October 19, 1987 Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan |
| Native name | 久保 優太 |
| Other names | Kubokyun, The Smiling Sniper |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb; 9.9 st) |
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Featherweight Lightweight Welterweight Middleweight |
| Reach | 70.0 in (178 cm) |
| Style | Kickboxing, Taekwondo |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Fighting out of | Tokyo, Japan |
| Team | Tachikawa KickBoxing Academy DC Lab.Gym |
| Years active | 6 (2005 -present) |
| Kickboxing record | |
| Total | 54 |
| Wins | 43 |
| By knockout | 18 |
| Losses | 10 |
| By knockout | 3 |
| Draws | 1 |
| Other information | |
| Occupation | Student of Asia University |
| Notable relatives | Kenji Kubo (brother) |
| Website | http://ameblo.jp/kubo-yuta/ |
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Yuta Kubo (久保 優太 Kubo Yuta, born October 19, 1987) is Japanese lightweight kickboxer. He won the Japanese national tournament of K-1 at Lightweight in 2011.
Kenji Kubo, his younger brother, is a kickboxer too.
Yuta Kubo was put practicing taekwondo at age of 8 with his younger brother, Kenji under Zanichi Korean family friend. He eventually took up kickboxing at the age of 15.
On January 22, 2005, he made a debut as a professional kickboxer on NJKF at featherweight(-57.15 kg). He was a high school student then.
On June 25, 2011, Kubo won the tournament in the lightweight class. He was going to retire if he lost and visited his sponsors to tell them on the day before tournament.
On February 17, 2012, Kubo defeated Charles François via second-round knockout to win the vacant ISKA World Light-Welterweight (64.5 kg) Championship in Tokyo, Japan.
On June 8, 2012, At Krush 18 in Tokyo, Japan, Yuta faced who was talked to be his toughest challenge in Top Welterweight Abdellah Ezbiri (5x France Champion, WKN European Champion, WKA World Champion). Prior to this fight Ezbiri revealed in an interview that he was shot in the face when he was a teenager. Despite his aggressive style Ezbiri seemed gun shy in the 1st round giving it to his opponent. Yuta dropped Ezbiri twice in the second, the 1st time with a right hook, the second with a spinning back fist but got up both times showing extreme toughness and heart and stayed on his feet in the 3rd even though Kubo is known for finishing his opponents quickly when he smells blood. Yuta Kubo won the fight by decision 3-0.
He was expected to make his middleweight (-70 kg) debut at Glory 4: Tokyo - 2012 Heavyweight Grand Slam on December 2, 2012 against an unnamed opponent but it fell through after the event was moved back to December 31 and combined with Dream 18.
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