[David Myers]

Japanese middleweight. Born 1929. Fought from 1947 to 1962. Record: 79-26-6 (19).

First OBPF middleweight champion in 1954. Won Japanese welterweight title in 1949 and held it till February 1951; regained it in 1952 and lost it again in 1953. Tatsumi held the Japanese middleweight title from 1951 to 1955 and again from 1956 till losing it to Takao Maemizo in his final bout in June 1962. Only four times in his career did Tatsumi fight outside Japan, losing all four times in Bangkok, Thailand.