As of August 2020, he is ranked as the world's fourth best active super-bantamweight by BoxRec[2] and seventh by The Ring.
[3] Teshigawara made his professional debut on 28 July 2011, scoring a third-round technical knockout (TKO) victory over Naoto Tabata at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.
[4] After compiling a record of 14–2–2 (8 KOs) he challenged WBO Asia Pacific bantamweight champion Jetro Pabustan on 12 October 2017 at the Korakuen Hall.
In the tenth, after Pabustan received a point deduction for excessive holding, the referee called a halt to the contest to save Pabustan from further punishment, awarding Teshigawara his first professional title via tenth-round TKO.
[5] He began 2018 with two successful defences of his WBO regional title – a unanimous decision (UD) against Jason Canoy in February[6] and a fifth-round knockout (KO) against Teiru Kinoshita in June[7] – before moving up in weight to face Glenn Suminguit for the vacant WBC-OPBF super-bantamweight title on 11 October at the Korakuen Hall.