Tsuyoshi Hamada (浜田 剛史, Hamada Tsuyoshi) is a retired Japanese professional boxer who is a former WBC World Junior Welterweight Champion. Having turned professional in 1979, he made his debut under his real name Tsuyoshi Hamada, written as 浜田 剛, in Tokyo on May 21. His ring name was changed into 浜田 剛史, pronounced the same, in 1983.
After retiring from active duty, he is also active as a commentator for professional boxing broadcasts such as NTV " World Premium Boxing " and WOWOW " Excite Match ". The commentary is always calm and accurate and has a good reputation. On NTV, he has teamed up with Satoshi Iida or Ceres Kobayashi (formerly Fighting Harada), and WOWOW with Joe Koizumi.
References in Hajime no Ippo[]
- In Round 181, prior to Ippo Makunouchi's JBC title match against Eiji Date, Minoru Fujii watched Ippo spar against Tatsuya Kimura at the Kamogawa gym, where he practiced throwing punches at a clinching distance. While watching, Fujii remembered what Hamada once said: that a fist only needs 10 cm to cause damage, because at that distance, a person has enough time to put all the energy from their legs into their arms and into their fist.
- In Round 360, when Kyōsuke Imai was introducing himself to Ippo before their spar, Imai claimed that he looked up to both Ippo and former world champion Hamada. The anime removes the mention of Hamada.
- In Round 421, while on the fishing boat, Ippo is staring off toward Okinawa prior to his JBC title defence against Iwao Shimabukuro, where he remembered that Okinawa had turned out a lot of world champions in the past like Yōkō Gushiken, Hamada, Katsuo Tokashiki, Tadashi Tomori, Yasutsune Uehara, and Akinobu Hiranaka.
Morikawa on Excite Match with Hamada.
- In Volume 70, Jōji Morikawa appeared on an episode of "Excite Match", a Japanese boxing program that shows boxing matches, where Hamada appears as a commentator.
Trivia[]
Guest commentator with TV announcer.
- One of the guest commentators with the TV Announcer, during the JBC middleweight title match of Mamoru Takamura vs Yoshiaki Yajima, has a striking resemblance Hamada.