Shigeji Kaneko, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Shigeji Kaneko

Japanese boxer

Date of Birth: 13-Aug-1931

Place of Birth: Tsubame, Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 02-Jan-2016

Profession: boxer

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Shigeji Kaneko (Japanese: ????, 13 August 1931 – 2 January 2016) was a Japanese featherweight boxer during the 1950s.
He fought Gabriel "Flash" Elorde four times, winning them all.
He was also a boxing promoter from the 1980s until the early 2000s. Shigeji died from progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) on 2 January 2016 in Tokyo.
He was 84.