Kuniaki Shibata

[mh2365]

Was looking over Vincente Saldivar in boxrec and he lost his title to Shibata, it was only one of his three losses.

Shibata is rated only a 1 in TBCB pretty low for a guy who ended up 47-6 and beat some top fighters.

Anyone want to take a stab at re-rating him?

[vistaman44]

Originally Posted by mh2365

Was looking over Vincente Saldivar in boxrec and he lost his title to Shibata, it was only one of his three losses.

Shibata is rated only a 1 in TBCB pretty low for a guy who ended up 47-6 and beat some top fighters.

Anyone want to take a stab at re-rating him?

... with you on this one, Mike. Among rated fighters (mostly TBCB) in my database, Shibata:
Beat Makloufi (7L), R. Bolanos (5JL), A. Amaya (7JL), Ricardo Arredondo (7JL), Ben Villaflor (10JL), Nabalatan (3Fe), Raul Cruz (4Fe), V. Saldivar (10Fe) and Katsutoshi Aoki (5B).
Drew with Ernesto Marcel (9Fe).
Lost to Villaflor, Clemente Sanchez (5Fe), Alfredo Escalera (10JL) and Dwight Hawkins (5Fe).

He had a suspect chin, but could take a lot of punishment and was steady in most other aspects. Hardly seems to be as low as a one. I'll post my revision shortly ...

Edit: Here's the file.

[mh2365]

Thanks Mark