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Although beaten, Masatoshi Kotani has gained plenty of experience over 17 fights and a 7 year long career so far. He now moves on to see just how far he can go as he approaches the later stage of his career. Kotani's longest KO streak is 6 fights long out of his 17 career fights.
Kotani proved he was made for the pro ranks in his debut against Yudai Ota, becoming the first person in Ota's 0 fights to stop him. The fight ended in round 3 of 4. Following his debut, Kotani had an impressive start to his career as he went on to fight 9 fights including 3 times in 2007, 2 times in 2008 and 4 times through 2009 and 2010 against fighters such as Ryo Kino, Yutaka Hirota and Yoshihisa Tomura.
On April 14th, 2008, Kotani took on and was defeated by Hideaki Ura in his first career defeat meaning his career tally went to 4-1-0. Kotani's first defeat came over the full distance against Hideaki Ura on April 14th, 2008. The fight went to the judges in a UD loss for Kotani. 5 wins followed where Kotani went on to be the 5th person to stop Naoto Sato (Round 2 KO), 4th person to stop Ray Rahardjo (Round 2 KO) and 8th person to stop Yoshihisa Tomura (Round 3 TKO).
Keeping his losses at 1, Kotani fought on November 6th, 2011 beating Chaiyong Sithsaithong via TKO. This took his record to 10-1-0 showing quite the successful career to date. Kotani was the first person to stop Chaiyong Sithsaithong and he did it in the 3rd round via TKO.
On July 8th, 2012, Kotani took on and was defeated by Cirilo Espino meaning his career tally went to 10-2-0. Cirilo Espino became the first person to stop Kotani. The win came via TKO in the 9th round of a 10 round bout. Kotani's win streak of 10 rose to 13 following 3 great wins, becoming the 2nd person to go the distance with Payanoi Jittygym, 3rd person to stop Veerapol Sor chantasith and 5th person to defeat Nam-joon Lee.
Rengga Rengga was Kotani's next fight on March 23rd, 2014 and also the next win in his career via KO. This took his record to 14-2-0 showing a mainly successful career to date. Kotani was the first person to stop Rengga Rengga and he did it in the 1st round via KO.
The wins continued with the defeat of Edgar Gabejan on August 24th, 2014 in Kotani's most recent fight taking his winning record to 15 wins. Keeping his record on track, Kotani showed his boxing ability in his most recent fight, taking Edgar Gabejan the distance and securing a SD decision victory in a 8 round fight.