Education
Senshu University.
山中 慎介
Senshu University.
Yamanaka is currently ranked 9th in The Ring (magazine) Pound for pound listings. Yamanaka captured the vacant WBC bantamweight title in his first world title shot against Mexico"s Christian Esquivel via an eleventh round technical knockout after knocking him down in the sixth and eleventh rounds at the Yoyogi National Stadium Second Gymnasium in Tokyo on November 6, 2011. Yamanaka was presented with the Rookie Award both in the forty-fourth Japan Professional Sports Awards and Japan’s Boxer of the Year in 2011.