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This page contains an approximate timeline of various matches, spars, or events that take place in Hajime no Ippo. While Jōji Morikawa once gave years in match posters and birthdays of main characters as an introduction in the first page of chapters, at some point he stopped. While now he doesn't give an exact date in the story (unless mentioned on a match poster), he does give a general idea on when events take place.

The story started in 1989. This is revealed in Round 2 where Haruhiko Yagi mentioned that is has been 20 years since the gym first opened, which means in 1969 (as shown on the cover of Round 197, since Ippo joined the gym in 1989.

In Hajime no Ippo: Official Guidebook, it lists a timeline table from 1988-4 (Ippo Makunouchi's enrolment to the Shiritsu Zōshirushi High School) to 1992-11 (Ippo's JBC featherweight title match against champion Takeshi Sendō).In Round 110, it was revealed to be April 20, 1992 in the story. In Round 1429, the first instance of "200X" was shown.

Please note: There are some difference between the anime and manga, where some events or matches might have been moved or cut out in order to fit into a episode or movie format. There might be some inaccuracies on Morikawa's part too since there is a lot of events between matches in the story.

Note: Character Birthdays listed on here are taken from the story (or volume extra) itself, previously mentioned on the Anime Promotion Site (currently defunct), or encase of ???? are based on their ages mentioned in the story at the time, where only the year was known.

Last updated: Round 1444

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