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Masayoshi Hashizume transfers to Kadoebi Gym!

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Earlier this week Kadoebi Gym announced that they had signed 2014 Rookie of the Year winner Masayoshi Hashizume (17-0-2, 10) [橋詰将義], who really seemed to fall off the side of the earth in recent years.

Once regarded as one of the brightest prospects in Japan Hashizume was a member of the Ioka gym early in his career and genuinely impressed in the first part of his career. He debuted way back in 2013, when he debuted as a 19 year old and just 15 months later he won the All Japan Rookie of the year. By that point he was 7-0 (4) and had already taken 4 unbeaten records.

​Sadly 2015, 2016, and 2017 were under-whelming years for Hashizume, who was matched with a string of very poor foreign opponents, which hindered his development before an unexpected draw against Kota Fujimoto in late 2017. The draw was a sign that his team had dropped the ball, and the easy wins over poor imports had done nothing for his development.

Thankfully Hashizume bounced back in 2018 with two solid wins before a controversial split decision draw against Takayuki Okumoto in a Japanese Super Flyweight title bout, at the end of the year. A bout many felt Hashizume should have got the nod in. Since then he has fought just once, taking a narrow win in April 2019 against Jayar Estremos.
Sadly we feel that Hashizume is one of the many fighters let down by the Ioka Gym, which had so much talent at one point, but struggled to really develop it in the way they should have. In fact Hashizume is probably the biggest victim of the Ioka Gym's under-development of fighters.

Thankfully with Kadoebi now signing him the fighters is good for the talented Super Flyweight southpaw. He's still in his 20's he's still talented, and if he's still hungry Kadoebi there's no reason Kadoebi couldn't land some very good fights for him at 115lbs or 118lbs going forward. He had clear potential and don't think it's too late for him to realise that early career potential.
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