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Miyo Yoshida (吉田実代, Yoshida Miyo, born 12 April 1988) is a Japanese professional boxer. She held the IBF female bantamweight title 2023-2024 and twice the WBO female junior-bantamweight title from 2019-2020 and 2021-2022.

Boxing career

Yoshida made her professional debut on 28 May 2014, scoring a four-round majority decision (MD) over Ayaka Sato at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Two judges scored the bout 39–37 in favour of Yoshida while the third scored it a draw at 38–38. After winning her first four fights, she suffered the first defeat of her career against Yuki Koseki on 13 March 2016, losing via unanimous decision (UD) over four rounds with scores of 38–39, 37–39 and 36–40.

Yoshida bounced back with three victories before defeating Tomomi Takano by UD over six rounds to capture the inaugural Japanese female bantamweight title, with all three judges scoring the bout 58–57. The bout took place on 6 October 2017 at the Korakuen Hall. After successfully defending the title in March 2018 against Kai Johnson, winning via six-round UD, Yoshida defeated Gretel de Paz on 20 August 2018 at the Korakuen Hall to capture the OPBF female bantamweight title. The fight was stopped in the fifth round after Yoshida was cut from an accidental clash of heads, causing the decision to rest on the scorecards over the five rounds that had been contested. Yoshida won via technical decision (TD) with two judges scoring the bout 49–46 and the third scoring it 48–47.

Following successful defences of her OPBF and Japanese titles in September 2018 and March 2019 respectively, both by UD, Yoshida challenged for her first world title against Casey Morton on 19 June at the Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan. Yoshida won the bout via UD (100–90, 100–90, 99–91) to capture the vacant WBO female junior-bantamweight title.

IBF bantamweight champion

Yoshida vs. Bridges

In December 2023 Yoshida beat Ebanie Bridges to win the IBF female bantamweight title.

Yoshida vs. Metcalf

Yoshida made the first defense of her IBF bantamweight title in a rematch against Shurretta Metcalf at Madison Square Garden in New York on October 23, 2024. She lost the bout by unanimous decision to lose the world title.

Professional boxing record

Kickboxing record

Professional kickboxing and shoot boxing record

10 wins (2 (T)KO's), 4 losses
Date	Result	Opponent	Event	Location	Method	Round	Time
2013-12-20	Win	Soy Sothear	Titan Fight Samurai vs Khmer	Bavet, Cambodia	Decision	5	2:00
2013-11-16	Loss	Ai Takahashi	Shoot Boxing Battle Summit: Ground Zero Tokyo 2013	Tokyo, Japan	Decision (Unanimous)	3	3:00
2013-09-01	Win	Jan Eun Jong	GLADIATOR in Kagoshima 2013	Kagoshima, Japan	TKO	2
Wins inaugural GLADIATOR Featherweight Championship.
2013-08-03	Loss	Mizuki Inoue	2013 Shoot Boxing Girls S-Cup, Semi-Final	Tokyo, Japan	Decision (Unanimous)	3	2:00
2013-08-03	Win	Kanako Oka	2013 Shoot Boxing Girls S-Cup, Quarter-Final	Tokyo, Japan	Decision (Unanimous)	3	2:00
2013-04-20	Loss	Lorena Klijn	SHOOT BOXING 2013 act.2	Tokyo, Japan	Decision (Majority)	3	3:00
2013-02-22	Win	Yu Hi Jin	SHOOT BOXING 2013 act.1	Tokyo, Japan	TKO (Corner stoppage)	1	0:41
2012-11-18	Win	Satoko Ozawa	J-GIRLS 2012 ～Platinum's In The Ring FINAL～	Tokyo, Japan	Decision (Unanimous)	3	2:00
2012-04-01	Win	Ruri Shiraishi	J-GIRLS 2012 ～Platinum's In The Ring 2nd～	Tokyo, Japan	Decision (Unanimous)	3	2:00
2011-10-30	Win	Caro	GLADIATOR 25	Tokyo, Japan	Decision (Unanimous)	3	3:00
2011-08-19	Loss	Erika Kamimura	2011 Shoot Boxing Girls S-Cup, Semi-Final	Tokyo, Japan	TKO (2 Knockdowns/Left hook)	1	0:50
2011-08-19	Win	WINDY Tomomi	2011 Shoot Boxing Girls S-Cup, Quarter-Final	Tokyo, Japan	Decision (Majority)	3	2:00
2011-06-05	Win	NATSUKA	SHOOT BOXING 2011 act.3	Tokyo, Japan	Decision (Unanimous)	3	2:00
2011-04-23	Win	Asuka Inoue	SHOOT BOXING 2011 act.2	Tokyo, Japan	Decision (Unanimous)	3	2:00
Legend:   Win   Loss   Draw/No contest   Notes

Mixed martial arts record

See also

• List of female boxers

References

1. "BoxRec: Miyo Yoshida vs. Akaya Sato". boxrec.com. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
2. "BoxRec: Miyo Yoshida vs. Yuki Koseki". boxrec.com. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
3. "Latest News Story on WBAN". www.womenboxing.com. 7 October 2017. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
4. "BoxRec: Miyo Yoshida vs. Tomomi Takano". boxrec.com. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
5. "BoxRec: Miyo Yoshida vs. Jai Johnson". boxrec.com. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
6. "Miyo Yoshida claims OPBF gold, becomes a double champion!". ASIAN BOXING. 20 August 2018. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
7. "Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation | Result". www.opbf.info. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
8. "Latest News Story on WBAN". www.womenboxing.com. 16 March 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
9. Christ, Scott (19 June 2019). "Kazuto Ioka stops Aston Palicte, wins world title in fourth division". www.badlefthook.com. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
10. "Ebanie Bridges gives update on future after loss to Miyo Yoshida | DAZN News US". DAZN. 10 December 2023.
11. Iskenderov, Parviz (21 October 2024). "Miyo Yoshida: I will defend my title & firmly avenge defeat against Shurretta Metcalf". FIGHTMAG.
12. Songalia, Ryan (23 October 2024). "Shurretta Metcalf scores another decision win over Miyo Yoshida, lifts IBF bantamweight title in NYC". The Ring.
13. Ketelle, Lucas (23 October 2024). "Shurretta Metcalf takes bantamweight title from Miyo Yoshida". Boxing Scene.

External links

• Boxing record for Miyo Yoshida from BoxRec (registration required)

• Living people
• 1988 births
• Japanese women boxers
• Sportspeople from Kagoshima
• World Boxing Organization champions
• International Boxing Federation champions
• World super-flyweight boxing champions
• World bantamweight boxing champions
• 21st-century Japanese sportswomen