Shigeji Kaneko | |
Weight: | Featherweight, super featherweight |
Nationality: | Japanese |
Birth Date: | 13 August 1931 |
Birth Place: | Tsubame, Niigata, Japan |
Death Place: | Tokyo, Japan |
Total: | 65 |
Wins: | 54 |
Ko: | 33 |
Losses: | 10 |
Draws: | 1 |
Shigeji Kaneko (Kaneko Shigeji, 13 August 1931 - 2 January 2016) was a Japanese featherweight boxer during the 1950s. He fought Gabriel "Flash" Elorde four times, winning them all. He was also a boxing promoter from the 1980s until the early 2000s.
Shigeji died from pneumonia on 2 January 2016 in Tokyo. He was 84.[1]