Reigning Worldwide Boxing Federation (IBF) Bantamweight World Champion Miyo Yoshida (17-4, 0 KOs) has signed with New York-based lawyer Keith Sullivan.
Yoshida, 35, is a three-time, two-division world champion having captured the World Boxing Group (WBO) Tremendous Flyweight crowns twice in 2019 and 2021. A local of Japan, she moved to Manhattan final 12 months, trains on the famed Gleason’s Fitness center in Brooklyn, and is promoted by DiBella Leisure.
She is one in all 23 feminine world champions from Japan, solely the sixth to seize world titles in two or extra divisions.
“Keith Sullivan is a wonderful lawyer with an undisputed repute,” Yoshida mentioned. “I imagine that he’ll have the ability to advance my profession ahead by changing into my supervisor. He was extremely beneficial, and I’m completely happy he’s a part of Staff Miyo. ”It should additionally broaden the scope of my profession.”
“Miyo is a good story on many ranges, each out and in of the ring,” Sullivan commented. “She was a single mother abroad coming off a took loss, took that battle on two weeks’ discover and dominated her solution to one other World title,” Sullivan commented. “She has loads of battle nonetheless in her. It’s an honor to work with somebody as skilled and respectful as Miyo.”
Final December, Yoshida placed on a boxing clinic in San Francisco, changing injured Avril Mathie on lower than two weeks’ discover to defeat defending IBF bantamweight title-holder Ebanie Bridges (9-1) by the use of a dominant 10-round unanimous choice (99-91, 99-91, 97-93).
“Unquestionably,” Yoshida talked about her title battle in opposition to Bridges, “this match was my best profession achievement. I need to get stronger than I’m now and proceed to be an incredible champion.”
A single mom of daughter her, Mina, Miyo is called the “Preventing Single Mom” in Japan, the place she is a revered function mannequin again, and for that purpose in addition to her success within the ring, Yoshida acquired the 2023 Most Inspirational Feminine Fighter award from The Ring journal.
“Many senior Japanese ladies have paved the way in which for me with out giving up,” Miyo added. I want to comply with of their footsteps and pave the way in which for my juniors. Girls’s boxing in america is by far the most important market. In Japan, you get used to preventing in opposition to Japanese types. Within the U.S. there are such a lot of varied preventing types. It’s all the time fascinating. The help and scale of girls’s boxing is superior within the U.S. than in Japan.”
Ten years in the past, Yoshida moved from Kagoshima, Japan, to Hawaii to be taught kickboxing as a result of she wished to alter her life. She kickboxed and realized MMA earlier than turning to boxing on the age of 26. After two years out of boxing to maintain her child, she made her skilled debut on the age of 28. Miyo began boxing as a result of as a kickboxer, she typically sparred boxers and loved the problem of the game.”
Sullivan additionally manages Brooklyn heavyweight prospect Pryce Taylor (2-0, 2 KOs), standout novice Nisa Rodriguez, and the reigning WBA Continental Champion from Limerick, Eire, Paddy “The Actual Deal” Donovan (13-0, 10 KOs).
