Monthly Boxing Fan (月刊ボクシングファン, Gekkan Bokushingu Fan) is where the boxing magazine of the same name is made. It serves as the work place of sports journalists Minoru Fujii, his partner, and Mari Īmura. They discuss previous matches or upcoming matches there.
About[]
The magazine features articles and pictures of various boxers or matches. The reporters tend to discuss various boxing matches, and future matches in the story. They tend to visit various boxing gym to interview various boxers, or provide information on other boxers.
History[]
Part II[]
Red Lightning Arc[]
Ippo and Miyata's father watch videos of Randy Boy Junior.
Prior to Ichirō Miyata's match against Randy Boy Junior, Ippo Makunouchi and Miyata Senior visited the Monthly Boxing Fan in order to find out information about Randy.
Go to the World Arc[]
Prior to Ippo's match to Alfredo González, Mari Īmura had Eiji Date stop by the Monthly Boxing Fan to get his impressions of Alfredo, since Alfredo's style resembles Ricardo Martínez.
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Trivia[]
- While he was never introduced in the series, the editor-in-chief's seiyū is Shūetsu Tōkaichi.
- On the cover of the Monthly Boxing Fan issue covering Volg's IBF title victory, it mentions that "Fūjī" (フージー) won the heavyweight title. In the Hajime no Ippo: Best Memorial's column 9, Weekly Shōnen Magazine editor Tetsuya Fujikawa (冨士川 哲也) who also is a person in charge of Hajime no Ippo claimed that Jōji Morikawa got "Fūjī" from his name.