Middleweight Boxing
Nieky Holzken vs Yoshihiro Akiyama
A fight that actually happened — and everything both records say about it.
Meetings on record
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Nieky Holzken and Yoshihiro Akiyama met once (2024). Nieky Holzken won in 2024 by ko.
SOURCE·Nieky Holzken and Yoshihiro Akiyama — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·both records name the other·REVIEWED AUG 2026
How this head-to-head is established
- This pairing exists only because at least one of the two articles' own results tables names the other fighter. No matchup on this site is speculative and none is a hypothetical.
- Every figure in the comparison below comes from that fighter's own page and carries the same source line. A dash means the source states nothing, not that the value is zero.
- Common opponents are found by matching linked bout lists, which is only possible because every fight list here is linked to every other. A shared opponent is not a transitive result and this page does not treat it as one.
- Nothing on this page predicts an outcome. It is a comparison of what is on record.
Side by side
| Nieky Holzken | Yoshihiro Akiyama | |
|---|---|---|
| 74″ (188 cm) | Reach | 75″ (190.5 cm) |
| 72″ (182.9 cm) | Height | 70″ (177.8 cm) |
| +2.79% | Reach advantage | +7.14% |
| 15–2 | Record | 16–7 |
| 73% | Finish rate | 88% |
| 13 | Longest unbeaten run | 8 |
| 18 | Recorded bouts | 26 |
| — | Stance | Orthodox |
A comparison of what is on record. Nothing here predicts a result.
Both records, drawn
The same ledger line on each: wins stamped above the rule, losses below, the mark's shape carrying how it ended.
Nieky Holzken
Yoshihiro Akiyama
Cross-references
Where this pairing leads
Nieky Holzken
The full ledger: 18 bouts, the reach placed in its cohort, and what the record does not say.
15–2 Yoshihiro AkiyamaThe same, from the other corner — 26 bouts and the cohort Akiyama is ranked inside.
16–7 Every confirmed matchupThe other 899 pairings whose own records confirm the fight happened — not a list of fights anyone imagined.
900 BOUTS