What is Yoshiaki Numata's record?

44–8–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 53 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.

Yoshiaki Numata — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

44–8–3

Yoshiaki Numata finished 27% of 44 wins inside the distance — the 12th percentile for lightweight boxing, where the median is 51%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1962–1972

SOURCE·Yoshiaki Numata — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25

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 2026-07-25. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the MMA record template — 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 258 lightweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

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.

Bout-by-bout recordAUG 2026
Year	Result	Opponent	Method	Rd
1972	L	Kenji Iwata	KO/TKO	3
1971	L	Ricardo Arredondo	KO/TKO	10
1971	W	Lionel Rose	Decision	15
1971	W	Rene Barrientos	Decision	15
1970	W	Raul Rojas	KO/TKO	5
1970	W	Raymond Rivera	Decision	10
1970	W	Chang Bok Lee	Decision	10
1970	W	Rene Barrientos	Decision	15
1970	D	Sumio Nobata	Decision	10
1969	W	Jun Koiwa	KO/TKO	2
1969	L	Mando Ramos	KO/TKO	6
1969	W	Ricardo Bermisa	Decision	10
1968	D	Ruben Navarro	Decision	10
1968	W	Rosalava Kid	Decision	10
1968	W	Kang Il Suh	KO/TKO	7
1968	W	Jun Koiwa	Decision	10
1967	L	Hiroshi Kobayashi	KO/TKO	12
1967	W	Sae Chun Lee	Decision	10
1967	W	Gabriel Elorde	Decision	15
1967	W	Chokchai KrissanachaI	Decision	10
1967	W	Kwang Joo Lee	Decision	10
1966	W	Del Kid Rosario	Decision	12
1966	W	Gabriel Elorde	Decision	12
1966	W	Jong Tae Lim	KO/TKO	2
1966	L	Kang Il Suh	Decision	10
1965	L	Love Allotey	KO/TKO	4
1965	W	Antonio Paiva	Decision	10
1965	L	Yuji Amashima	KO/TKO	4
1965	W	Hidemori Tsujimoto	Decision	10
1965	W	Larry Flaviano	Decision	12
1965	W	Young Pal Lee	Decision	10
1964	W	Takeo Sugimori	Decision	10
1964	W	Atom Hatai	KO/TKO	5
1964	W	Katsumi Yabe	Decision	10
1964	W	Larry Fernando	Decision	10
1964	W	Lennie Campos	Decision	10
1964	W	Jae Keun Yang	Decision	10
1964	W	Pedro Adigue	Decision	10
1963	W	Yasuyuki Orito	Decision	10
1963	W	Katsuzo Nakamura	KO/TKO	3
1963	W	Kenzo Shimamura	KO/TKO	4
1963	W	Noriyoshi Toyoshima	Decision	6
1963	W	Katsuhiro Sugawara	Decision	6
1963	W	Kuniaki Masuda	KO/TKO	2
1963	W	Tatsuo Hokkai	Decision	4
1963	W	Yasushi Matsuzoe	Decision	4
1963	W	Susumu Akimoto	Decision	4
1963	W	Hiroshi Kaneko	KO/TKO	1
1962	W	Tadao Abe	Decision	4
1962	W	Nabuyoshi Mizusaki	KO/TKO	2
1962	W	Kazuji Toji	KO/TKO	1
1962	W	Kaoru Morita	Decision	4
1962	W	Toshio Aida	KO/TKO	3

11 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Yoshiaki Numata — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25

What is on record

Measurements
Reach	not recorded
Height	67″ (170.2 cm)
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Lightweight Boxing competed at 2: super featherweight, lightweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	1960s — 44 of 53 dated bouts
Country	Japan

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Yoshiaki Numata, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

winlossdraw / NC1962–1972

Record

Boxing record

44–8

55 bouts on record

Finish rate

27%

of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight boxing median 51%, 12th percentile

By knockout 27%
By decision 73%

The career, bout by bout

53 recorded bouts from 1962 to 1972. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

11y

1962–1972

Longest unbeaten run

22

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1963

10 bouts

Recorded bouts

53

53 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Yoshiaki Numata's record?: 44–8–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 53 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.

Cross-references

Lightweight boxing

The 270 lightweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Numata sits inside.

270 FIGHTERS 1960s boxing

44 of these bouts fall in the 1960s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

72 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Yoshiaki Numata went 22 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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