Akira Yaegashi
Japanese boxer
八重樫東 · 야에가시 아키라
- Born
- 25 February 1983, Kitakami
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Sport
- boxing
- Discipline
- flyweight, minimumweight
- Occupation
- boxer
Akira Yaegashi (八重樫 東, Yaegashi Akira; born February 25, 1983) is a Japanese former professional boxer who competed from 2005 to 2019. He is a three-weight world champion, having held the World Boxing Association (WBA) mini-flyweight title from 2011 to 2012, the World Boxing Council (WBC) and Ring magazine flyweight titles from 2013 to 2014, and the International Boxing Federation (IBF) light-flyweight title from 2015 to 2016. He is an alumnus of the Takushoku University.
Awards and honours
- IBF World Junior Flyweight Champion
- The Ring World Flyweight Champion
- WBA World Minimumweight Champion
- WBC World Flyweight Champion
External links
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Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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