Royal Kobayashi
35–8 · 43 recorded bouts · 1973–1981
35–8
Royal Kobayashi finished 77% of 35 wins inside the distance — the 92nd percentile for featherweight boxing, where the median is 51%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Royal Kobayashi — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
How this record is compiled
- Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-07-07. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the
MMA recordtemplate — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one. - A bout enters the ledger with whatever fields the source states: result, opponent, method, round, year. Any field the source leaves empty stays empty here. A date that cannot be established is left blank rather than inferred, and the bout is still counted.
- A no contest is counted and printed as a no contest. It is never folded into the wins, the losses or the draws, and it never disappears to make a total balance.
- Where the article's infobox total disagrees with its own results table, both figures are published and each is labelled with where it came from. Nothing is averaged and nothing is reconciled against a second database.
- Percentiles rank this fighter among the 237 featherweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
Bout record
Every bout the article's own results table lists, in order. A dash is a field the source leaves empty — it is not a zero and it is not a guess.
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | L | Jung Han Hwang | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1981 | L | Young Se Oh | Decision | 12 |
| 1981 | W | Dae Hwan Lee | Decision | 12 |
| 1981 | W | Koichi Matsushima | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1980 | W | Dae Hwan Lee | Decision | 12 |
| 1980 | W | Takao Maruki | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1980 | W | Masa Ito | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1979 | W | Kashi Keno | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1979 | W | Suk Tae Yun | Decision | 12 |
| 1979 | W | Chong Yun Lee | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1979 | L | Hikaru Tomonari | Decision | 10 |
| 1979 | W | Bok Soo Hwang | Decision | 12 |
| 1979 | L | Eusebio Pedroza | KO/TKO | 13 |
| 1978 | W | Spider Nemoto | Decision | 12 |
| 1978 | W | Bok Soo Hwang | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1978 | L | Wilfredo Gómez | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1977 | W | Satoshi Nakai | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1977 | W | Shigeru Sasaki | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1977 | W | Blazer Okubo | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1976 | L | Yum Dong-kyun | Decision | 15 |
| 1976 | W | Rigoberto Riasco | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1976 | W | Jaguar Sekino | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1976 | L | Emilio Salcedo | Decision | 10 |
| 1975 | W | Ushiwakamaru Harada | Decision | 10 |
| 1975 | L | Alexis Argüello | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1975 | W | Hwa Ryong Yuh | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1975 | W | Zensuke Utagawa | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1975 | W | Jun Gallego | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1975 | W | Masanao Toyoshima | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1974 | W | Sanjo Takemori | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1974 | W | Bert Nabalatan | Decision | 10 |
| 1974 | W | Ryu Fukita | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1974 | W | Freddie Mensah | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1974 | W | José Medel | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1974 | W | Sung Jong Hong | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1974 | W | Hiroshi Nunose | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1973 | W | Jaguar Sekino | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1973 | W | Nam Chul Chung | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1973 | W | Katsutoshi Inuzuka | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1973 | W | Victor Dounue | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1973 | W | Hiroshi Miura | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1973 | W | Gypsy Sato | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1973 | W | Baron Kumazawa | Decision | 8 |
5 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Royal Kobayashi — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 65″ (165.1 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Featherweight Boxing competed at 2: super bantamweight, featherweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1970s — 36 of 43 dated bouts | |
| Country | Japan |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Royal Kobayashi, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
35–8
43 bouts on record
Finish rate
77%
of wins ended inside the distance — featherweight boxing median 51%, 92nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
43 recorded bouts from 1973 to 1981. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
9y
1973–1981
Longest unbeaten run
15
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1973
7 bouts
Recorded bouts
43
43 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Royal Kobayashi's record?
- 35–8 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 43 bouts individually.
- Does a no contest change a record here?
- No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.
- What happens when sources disagree about a fight?
- This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.
Where this record leads
The 247 featherweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Kobayashi sits inside.
247 FIGHTERS 1970s boxing36 of these bouts fall in the 1970s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
115 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsRoyal Kobayashi went 15 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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