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Todaka wins WBA interim bantamweight title

TOKYO, Japan - Former WBA super flyweight champion Hideki Todaka rejoices after winning a spilt decision over fifth-ranked Leo Gamez of Venezuela for the WBA interim bantamweight title. Todaka lost the title to Gamez in October 2000.

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Ex-WBA champ Todaka KOs Thai in comeback fight

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Former World Boxing Association (WBA) super flyweight champion Hideki Todaka knocked out Kanchit Kiatgeisha of Thailand in the third round of the scheduled 10-rounder at Miyazaki municipal gymnasium March 2, raising hopes he might get a shot at another world title again.

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Challenger Gamez takes WBA super flyweight title from Todaka

NAGOYA, Japan - Hideki Todaka (L) crumples to the canvas at Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium on Oct. 9 as top-ranked challenger Leo Gamez of Venezuela took the World Boxing Association (WBA) super flyweight title by knockout at 2:13 of the seventh round. Gamez won his fourth world championship crown to add to titles previously won at minimumweight, light flyweight and flyweight.

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Todaka crowned the new WBA super flyweight champion

NAGOYA, Japan - Japan's Hideki Todaka is crowned the new World Boxing Association (WBA) super flyweight champion July 31 after defeating Venezuelan champion Jesus Rojas on a unanimous points decision. Todaka sent the champion to the canvas in the second round at Nagoya Sports Complex and dominated Rojas from the eighth to win 3-0 on the judges scorecards in a rematch of their March 28 fight which was stopped in the fourth after a clash of heads and declared a draw.

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Ex-WBA champ Todaka KOs Thai in comeback fight

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Former World Boxing Association (WBA) super flyweight champion Hideki Todaka knocked out Kanchit Kiatgeisha of Thailand in the third round of the scheduled 10-rounder at Miyazaki municipal gymnasium March 2, raising hopes he might get a shot at another world title again.

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WWII Japanese ships wreckage

Kazushige Todaka, director of the Kure Maritime Museum, also known as the Yamato Museum, in Hiroshima Prefecture's Kure, speaks on Dec. 22, 2017, about the sunken Japanese warships whose wreckage were found on the seabed in the Surigao Strait in the southern Philippines in November. The Imperial Japanese Navy ships were sunk in October 1944 during the Battle of Surigao Strait in World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Todaka wins WBA interim bantamweight title

TOKYO, Japan - Former WBA super flyweight champion Hideki Todaka rejoices after winning a spilt decision over fifth-ranked Leo Gamez of Venezuela for the WBA interim bantamweight title. Todaka lost the title to Gamez in October 2000. (Kyodo)

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Challenger Gamez takes WBA super flyweight title from Todaka

NAGOYA, Japan - Hideki Todaka (L) crumples to the canvas at Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium on Oct. 9 as top-ranked challenger Leo Gamez of Venezuela took the World Boxing Association (WBA) super flyweight title by knockout at 2:13 of the seventh round. Gamez won his fourth world championship crown to add to titles previously won at minimumweight, light flyweight and flyweight.

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Todaka crowned the new WBA super flyweight champion

NAGOYA, Kyodo - Japan's Hideki Todaka is crowned the new World Boxing Association (WBA) super flyweight champion July 31 after defeating Venezuelan champion Jesus Rojas on a unanimous points decision. Todaka sent the champion to the canvas in the second round at Nagoya Sports Complex and dominated Rojas from the eighth to win 3-0 on the judges scorecards in a rematch of their March 28 fight which was stopped in the fourth after a clash of heads and declared a draw.

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Todaka crowned the new WBA super flyweight champion

NAGOYA, Kyodo - Japan's Hideki Todaka is crowned the new World Boxing Association (WBA) super flyweight champion July 31 after defeating Venezuelan champion Jesus Rojas on a unanimous points decision. Todaka sent the champion to the canvas in the second round at Nagoya Sports Complex and dominated Rojas from the eighth to win 3-0 on the judges scorecards in a rematch of their March 28 fight which was stopped in the fourth after a clash of heads and declared a draw.