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1.
What is the name of Ippo's boxing gym?
Ippo's gym owner and coach is retired boxer Genji Kamogawa.
2.
What role does Masaru Aoki play in the anime?
Owner of another boxing gym
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Aoki is Ippo's gym partner, unorthodox boxer, and the butt of many jokes.
3.
What family business does Ippo help out his mother with?
Ippo and his mother Hiroko own a fishing boat, inherited from his late father.
4.
Which two real-life boxers do characters in the anime often compare Ippo's style to?
Muhammad Ali & Roberto Duran
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Rocky Marciano & Joe Louis
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Manny Pacquiao & Ricardo Lopez
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Jack Dempsey & Mike Tyson
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His peekaboo style is reminiscent of Tyson, and his signature move is the 'Dempsey Roll'.
5.
After Japanese featherweight champion Date Eiji vacates the title, who is the next boxer to win it?
Sendo and Zangief faced off for the belt, with the former winning by decision.
6.
The world featherweight champion in the anime hails from which nation?
Ricardo Lopez is a legendary undefeated Mexican boxer, and gave Date Eiji his distinctive scar.
7.
Ippo's mentor and friend, Mamoru Takamura, has an older brother Suguru, who is a former athlete. What was his sport?
Suguru Takamura was a promising rugby player, but he abandoned the sport to run his father's business.
8.
Who was the first of these characters to join Ippo's gym?
Though Takamura is the senior-most member, Miyata was already training at the gym when Takamura joined.
9.
Ryo Mashiba "cheats" to beat Miyata during the Rookie King Tournament. How so?
Hits Miyata after the bell had rung
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Takes performance enhancing drugs
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During the fight, Mashiba steps on Miyata's foot and then punches him, which severely hampers his footwork.
10.
In which boxing arena do the majority of the fights in the anime take place?
Osaka Prefetcural Gymnasium
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The majority of fights in the series take place in Kourakuen, though it never hosts a world title bout.
11.
Who is Ippo's primary love interest?
Ippo and Ryo Mashiba's sister have feelings for each other, but are not yet officially dating.
12.
How do Japanese boxing fans feel about two of Takamura's American rivals, Bryan Hawk & David Eagle?
Eagle is liked, Hawk is disliked
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Hawk is liked, Eagle is disliked
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Hawk is a pervert and looks down on the Japanese. Eagle is his polar opposite, well-mannered and unusually nice.
13.
Who does Miyata beat to claim the Oriental Pacific title?
Arnie Gregory is an Australian boxer and former OPBF champion.
14.
Which of Alexander Volg Zangief's sick family members does he leave Russia to fight for?
Zangief's only family that we are made aware of in the series is his mother, who is dying.
15.
What is Ippo's surname?
His full name is Makunouchi Ippo.