Viper Kamogawa Boxing Gym Japan Anime T-Shirt

Product Information

In Chapter 1218, Hanamori Seigo and Shintomi Ryō names appeared in the series listed from BJ Gym. Both are boxers from the JB Sports Gym. For their debut match, George Morikawa would act as their 2nd (which he only does part of the time.)

On April 26, 2003, He became OPBF Champion by defeating Jae Kwang Jung for the vacant title. However, Fukushima lost his first defence match to Pederito Laurente in 12 round decision on August 16, 2003. The entire match was stream for free online, where you can see Morikawa act as a 2nd during his boxers matches. In 1969, Kamogawa opened the gym. [2] By twenty years, the gym had produced two Japanese champions and one OPBF champion, Miyata Senior. The gym also had boxing manager, Haruhiko Yagi, trainer Shinoda, boxers Mamoru Takamura, Ichirō Miyata, Baron Kurita, Masaru Aoki, and Tatsuya Kimura, however, Baron soon quit due to Takamura. Takamura invited Ippo Makunouchi to the gym, and, after sparring with Miyata, he became a member of the gym. After a second spar between Ippo and Miyata, Miyata and his father left the gym so that Miyata could face Ippo in the professional ring. Years later, the gym got a JBC middleweight belt won by Takamura, and Naomichi Yamada became a member of the gym for a short time before leaving due to having to move out of town. A JBC featherweight belt was later won by Ippo. Manabu Itagaki joined the gym, and Takamura later won the WBC junior middleweight belt until he relinquished it to move a weight class up. JB Sports Gym appeared in Chapter 103 and Chapter 104 of GTO Paradise Lost, where a sparring match is taken placed. On August 24, 2002, Fukushima fought Oscar Larios for the Super Bantamweight Interim WBC Title, but he ended up losing in the 8th Round by TKO.

Required Cookies & Technologies

After Ippo retired when he lost to Antonio Guevara, he became a trainer for the boxers, and Taihei Aoki and Kintarō Kaneda soon joined because of him. When Takamura defeated world champion Keith Dragon, the gym acquired the WBC super middleweight belt.

The Charisma Brothers and Fischer's -フィッシャーズ- Youtubers made a short real life Hajime no Ippo film in 2016, where they filmed live-action scene taken from a character's point of view. Part of it was film at JB Sport. To help honour Hajime no Ippo's 30 year mark, Joshin stores collaborated with Morikawa from 2/8/2019 to 3/3/2019 in a promotion. In the weekly flyer ad for Joshin, it showcased JB Sports Gym with having various boxers appear in it.The Kawahara Boxing Gym member Nakatsuka is based on Takahiro Nakatsuka, with the same surname and similar appearance. The "Monkey" shirt Nakatsuka wears is a reference to the real life Nakatsuka's association with monkeys and boxing, calling himself the "Monkey Boxer." [33] On October 26, 2019, Kyosuke Sawada managed to defeat Kazuki Tanaka in the Strongest Challenger Tournament (Class A Tournament) [30], which secured him a spot in the Champion Carnival in 2020 with a Japanese Bantamweight title fight against the current champion Yusuke Suzuki. Yusuke Suzuki was previously one of two boxers that had defeated Sawada early in his career.