Go Shindo

{{Short description|Japanese boxer}}

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| height = 5 ft 6 in

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| nationality = Japanese

| birth_name = {{nihongo|Megumi Hashimoto|橋本めぐみ}}{{cite news | url=http://www.hochi.co.jp/sports/boxing/20170718-OHT1T50068.html | title=元女子世界王者・真道ゴー、性別適合手術&戸籍変更し新郎で結婚 | trans-title=Former women's world champion Go Shindo goes under gender reaassignment surgery and marries as a groom | language=ja | work=Sports Hochi | date=2017-07-18 | accessdate=2024-08-20 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170718081111/http://www.hochi.co.jp/sports/boxing/20170718-OHT1T50068.html | archivedate=2017-07-18}}

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1987|7|18}}

| birth_place = Maniwa, Japan

| style = Orthodox{{Cite web|title=BoxRec: Shindo Go|url=https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/455248|access-date=13 March 2022|website=BoxRec}}

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| total = 20

| wins = 16

| KO = 11

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{{nihongo|Go Hashimoto|橋本 浩|Hashimoto Gō}} (formerly {{nihongo|Megumi Hashimoto|橋本 めぐみ|Hashimoto Megumi}}; born 18 July 1987), also professionally known as {{nihongo|Go Shindo|真道 ゴー|Shindō Gō}}, is a Japanese former professional boxer who held the WBC female flyweight title from 2013 to 2014. At regional level, she held the OPBF female flyweight title in 2011. in 2017, Go came out as transgender and has since retired from women's boxing.{{Cite web |date=2022-03-12 |title=Former female World Boxing Council champ faces battle to fight as male |url=https://www.worldboxingnews.net/2022/03/12/world-boxing-council-transgender/ |access-date=2022-03-13 |website=World Boxing News |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2022-03-12 |title=Boxing News: Ex-WBC female champ Shindo to come back as male » March 13, 2022 |url=https://fightnews.com/ex-wbc-female-champ-shindo-to-come-back-as-male/129160 |access-date=2022-03-13 |website=fightnews.com |language=en-US}}

Career

On 25 May 2008, Go made his professional debut at the local Wakayama Prefectural Gymnasium in the match against former amateur Japanese champion Masae Akitaya which he lost by a unanimous decision. In 2012, he lost against Mariana Juárez for the WBC female flyweight title.{{Cite web |title=Womens Boxing - WBAN Yearly Awards - 2012 |url=https://www.womenboxing.com/awards2012.htm |access-date=2022-03-13 |website=www.womenboxing.com}} Later in 2013, he won the WBC female flyweight title defeating then world champion Renáta Szebelédi via a 10 round unanimous decision at the Big Wave, Wakayama, Japan.

= Retirement =

On 17 July 2017, Shindo announced that he underwent male assignment surgery and changed his legal name to Go Hashimoto. In the same announcement, he announced that he had married Ayuka, a non-celebrity cis-gender woman, and plans to submit a retirement notice.

On October 30, 2017, he announced his retirement from active boxing with a record of 16 wins (11KO) and 4 losses. He also indicated his intention to convert to a male professional boxer in the future.{{Cite web |date=2017-10-30 |title=真道ゴー引退、男子プロ転向の仰天プラン明かす |url=https://boxingnews.jp/news/52845/ |access-date=2022-03-13 |website=Boxing News(ボクシングニュース) |language=ja}}

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