Katsunari Takayama (高山 勝成, Takayama Katsunari?, born May 12, 1983 in Osaka, Osaka Prefecture) is a Japanese professional boxer. He is the former WBA minimumweight interim champion, and the former WBC minimumweight champion. Currently he trains at his fellow boxer Ken'ichi Yamaguchi's Osaka Tenjin Boxing Gym in Japan and ALA Boxing Gym in the Philippines, and is promoted by ALA Promotions since April 2010. While Takayama has gone through four gyms, his Japanese trainer for his entire career is Hironobu Nakade who has so far served as the second/trainer in the world title bouts of all the four major sanctioning bodies i.e. WBA, WBC, IBF (for Takayama fights) and WBO (for Orlando Salido vs. Yamaguchi).
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