Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Ishida ya tashi a rukunin nauyi don fitar da James Kirkland wanda ba a ci nasara ba a baya wanda rikodin sa ya kasance 27<unk>0 (24 KOs), ya buge shi sau uku a cikin minti daya da dakika hamsin da biyu na zagaye na farko a cikin zagaye na takwas na zagaye na matsakaici a kan HBO biya-da-duba talbijin na Erik Morales vs. Marcos Maidana a MGM Grand Las Vegas a ranar 9 ga Afrilu, 2011, kasa da wata daya bayan da
Girgizar ƙasa ta Tōhoku. Nori Takatani (wanda ya kasance manajan Genaro Hernández, Oscar Albarado da sauransu), Rudy Hernández, Daisuke Okabe da Hidenobu Honda daga Green-Tsuda (wanda ya kasance zakaran Japan kuma mai kalubalantar taken duniya sau biyu) suna cikin kusurwar Ishida. An saki wasan ne kusan makonni biyu kafin wasan. A cikin ɗan gajeren lokacin shiri, Ishida ya horar da shi a Las Vegas da California, gami da yin gwagwarmaya tare da manyan 'yan dambe kamar Peter Quillin. Kafin yakin, kungiyar Ishida ta yanke shawarar ba za ta taba jefa bugun zagaye ba, kuma ta yi taka tsantsan da inda ya kamata ya kasance a kan zoben. Mai ba da labari Jim Lampley ya ce ya fi damuwa fiye da Buster Douglas ya doke Mike Tyson a 1990. An zabe shi a matsayin Upset na Shekara a cikin "The Ring's" 83rd Annual "Ring" Awards da SI.com's 2011 Boxing Awards. Bugu da kari, a cikin zaben karshen shekara na RingTV.com na shekarar 2011, ya jawo kashi 22.6 cikin dari na kuri'un da aka kada a shekarar Upset na Shekara (na uku), da kuma kashi 9.2 cikin dari na kuri'un da aka kada a KO na Shekara (na biyu da babban bambanci). Ishida bai yi farin ciki da matsayin tsohon zakara na wucin gadi ba, kuma har yanzu bai gamsu da fitar da Kirkland a irin wannan babban mataki ba.