is a Japanese

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who has held the

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female

junior-bantamweight Super flyweight, also referred to as junior bantamweight, is a weight class in professional boxing, contested from and up to . History The first title match in this division was in 1980, when the World Boxing Council responded to pressure from As ...

title since 2020. At regional level she held the

OPBF The Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF) is a professional boxing organization that sanctions title fights in the Asian and Pacific region. History Oriental boxing started in the Philippines in 1946 after the Spanish-American War. Whi ...

female

bantamweight Bantamweight is a weight class in combat sports and weightlifting. For boxing, the range is above and up to . In kickboxing, a bantamweight fighter generally weighs between . In mixed martial arts, MMA, bantamweight is . The name for the class ...

title in 2020.

Professional career

Okuda suffered defeat in her professional debut, losing via fourth-round

knockout A knockout (abbreviated to KO or K.O.) is a fight-ending, winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts, karate, some forms of taekwondo and other sports involving striking, ...

to Wakako Fujiwara on 5 April 2015, at the

Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium is an indoor sporting arena located in Namba, Osaka, Japan. It first opened in 1952 and the current building was constructed in 1987. It is the venue of a professional sumo tournament ( honbasho) held in March every year. The capacity of the ...

(now called Edion Arena) in Japan. After compiling a record of 6–2–2 (1 KO), she challenged WBO female junior-bantamweight champion

Miyo Yoshida Miyo Yoshida (吉田実代, ''Yoshida Miyo'', born 12 April 1988) is a Japanese professional boxer. She held the List of IBF female world champions#Bantamweight, IBF female bantamweight title 2023-2024 and twice the World Boxing Organization, WB ...

on 13 December 2020, at the Edion Arena. Yoshida suffered a cut above her right eye in the fifth round due to an accidental clash of heads. After the cut worsened in the sixth, the referee called a halt to the contest, forcing the decision to rely on the judges' scorecards. Two judges scored the bout 59–54 and the third judge scored it 57–56, all in favour of Okuda, handing her the WBO title via sixth round

technical decision A technical decision is a term used in boxing when a fight has to be stopped because of a headbutt. In mixed martial arts, a technical decision occurs when a fighter is rendered unable to continued by a foul and the majority of the final round ha ...

Professional boxing record

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Okuda, Tomoko Living people 1995 births Martial artists from Gifu Prefecture Japanese women boxers Super-flyweight boxers Bantamweight boxers World super-flyweight boxing champions World Boxing Organization champions 21st-century Japanese sportswomen