Most fans around the world will recognise the name Nobuhiro Ishida. His career, over the last few years at least, has been interesting. He shocked the world in 2011 when he stopped the previously unbeaten James Kirkland in the upset of the year, then faced a string of top fighters in the form of Gennady Golovkin, Paul Williams and Dmitry Pirog.
It now appears that Ishida has turned his attention away from the Middleweight and Light Middleweight divisions to focus on the Heavyweight division.
The lanky Japanese fighter will be getting his first taste of Heavyweight action on January 11th at the Korakuen Hall as he steps into the ring with Yamato Fujinaka in what will be a public sparring session. The spar has been set up for the JBC to see how Ishida will cope with the power and size of a Heavyweight foe. It's expected that if he can impress the JBC he will be getting a Japanese Heavyweight ranking and Japanese Heavyweight title fight.
If Ishida does get that ranking he'll have very impressively moved from Middleweight to Heavyweight in one fell swoop, something that is close to, if not completely, unprecedented.
It now appears that Ishida has turned his attention away from the Middleweight and Light Middleweight divisions to focus on the Heavyweight division.
The lanky Japanese fighter will be getting his first taste of Heavyweight action on January 11th at the Korakuen Hall as he steps into the ring with Yamato Fujinaka in what will be a public sparring session. The spar has been set up for the JBC to see how Ishida will cope with the power and size of a Heavyweight foe. It's expected that if he can impress the JBC he will be getting a Japanese Heavyweight ranking and Japanese Heavyweight title fight.
If Ishida does get that ranking he'll have very impressively moved from Middleweight to Heavyweight in one fell swoop, something that is close to, if not completely, unprecedented.