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This would give Miyata his reason to finally move up in class and then they would separately pursue the world but it would leave a what if in Ippo’s mind. once/if they both have championship belts then there may be a moment where Ippo decides to go up a weight class and meet Miyata at his ideal weight class, which Ippo would consider a fair fight.
The only reason Kamogawa tolerated the Ippo v Miyata match was so Ippo could take Miyatas ranking and go to the world he wasn't interested if Ippo had a good chance of not winning or if Miyata was below Ippo in ranks. For all we know Miyata did challenge Ippo prior to his opbf title win and Kamogawa just didn't tell Ippo about it because there ...
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Ichirō Miyata (宮田 一郎, Miyata Ichirō) is a featherweight professional boxer, the OPBF featherweight champion, and Ippo Makunouchi's idol and eternal rival.
Miyata is a very skilled out-boxer with a cool demeanour that specialises in counter punches. He is considered by many to be a boxing prodigy, he uses the same boxing style as his father. After his father was forced to retire, Miyata decided to take on his style of boxing to prove its worth on the world stage. He started at Kamogawa gym, where he eventually met Ippo and had a pair of spars with him. After the two spars which ended in Miyata's victory and defeat, he transfers to the Kawahara gym in hopes of one day facing Ippo in an official match to settle the score.
When Miyata was a child, he would be at the ringside watching his father's boxing matches. When his father was fighting in his seventh OPBF featherweight title defence match, Miyata watched in shock as he was defeated by what Miyata thought was a "lucky punch" from Randy Boy Senior. As his father was taken to the hospital and forced to retire due to his broken jaw, people he knew visited him there until they eventually stopped, however, Miyata stayed at his father's side the entire time. Miyata's mother left the family, with Miyata's last encounter of her was from the note she left.
The once cheerful Miyata stopped smiling and talked less while carrying his father's old boxing gloves, which his father didn't like and struck him for it one day. Determined to prove that his father's boxing is not wrong, Miyata joined the Kamogawa gym, where his first request was for the gym's staff to teach him how to use counters. Miyata was beaten everyday at the gym until he found his secret weapon: timing.
One year later, Miyata was shadowboxing based on his father's movements in a park. His father came across the event and scolded him for it since he did not want to be reminded of boxing. Miyata expressed his determination of never wanting to forget that his father was an amazing champion by practising all the time. After showing his father his movements that mimic him and revealing that it was self-taught from watching his father's matches, Miyata's decision to box was supported by his father, who soon became his trainer.
When Mamoru Takamura was brought into the gym by Genji Kamogawa, Miyata and Takamura had a friendly relationship. Around the time when Takamura won his second match, Miyata was instructed to walk with Takamura after he quit school in order for Takamura to not get into any fights. However, Miyata failed to stop Takamura from getting into a fight with delinquents Masaru Aoki and Tatsuya Kimura, who Miyata believed to be losers. After Aoki and Kimura joined the Kamogawa gym with the goal to land a punch on Takamura, they had their debut match. When they won, Miyata congratulated the two.
Miyata is a tall and muscular boxer with fair skin. He has short jet-black hair with bangs covering his forehead and ears, and his sharp eyes are dark red in colour. He is said to physically resemble Tatsuya Kimura, have a "pointy nose," as well as "handsome," with most of his matches garnering female spectators who encourage him to "not get hit in...
As a child, Miyata was extremely cheerful. He set his father as a role model and went to many of his matches, but after his father's defeat at the hands of Randy Boy Senior and subsequent retirement from boxing, Miyata became calm and serious. There are few instances in which he is seen smiling, such as after defeating Jimmy Sisphar and Randy Boy Junior, when Mr. Sakaguchi's assault was posted in the newspaper and while sparring with Sendō.
He is very stubborn, as evident in his refusal to move up to another weight class to ease the severity of his weight control, and when he didn't want to learn uppercuts to defeat Randy Boy Junior. However, he has his reasons for being stubborn, namely his promise to Ippo and his pride in his father's boxing. Miyata is also prideful and dislikes being disrespected, such as when Sendō playfully smacked him in the back of the head, Miyata threw a glove at him and told him to get in the ring. Miyata is shown to be snarky at times, as he sarcastically stated that he wouldn't be enough to take on Ippo, who never fought before, before their first spar began.
Cut from the same cloth as his father, Miyata is an out-boxer technician with a speciality in counters. Hailed as a genius since before his pro-debut, he has in fact been practicing boxing with his father ever since he was a child. Before even getting his professional license, he was considered better than most 4-round boxers, and he was able to beat a 6-round pro Masaru Aoki in spars.
Despite lacking in physical strength and toughness, Miyata makes up for that with his razor-sharp technique, reflexes and speed. According to his father, he also possesses an unusually great eyesight that allows him to follow the motion of even the fastest of punches. Through his training in Thailand, he learned to put his full weight into each of his counters, adopting a high-risk, high-reward style of counter-punching that boasts an impressive knockout rate.
In the original concept, Ichirō Miyata's role was going to end after the first sparring session with Ippo. However, the popularity vote for the chapter that featured Miyata was outstanding. Morikawa felt like the readers were telling him, "Oh, perhaps Miyata is an important character.". Miyata's early appearance was modelled after freelance actor Eisaku Yoshida (吉田栄作), who played the role of an unpleasant man in a drama at the time. Miyata's fighting style is modelled after Sugar Ray Leonard, and his appearance is modelled after Naoto Takahashi. His match against Ryō Mashiba was modelled after Sugar Ray Leonard's match against Thomas Hearns
Morikawa originally planned for Ippo and Miyata to fight in the East Japan Rookie King Tournament before deciding to have Miyata lose to Mashiba. After Miyata got back from fighting in matches overseas and Ippo acquired the Dempsey Roll, Morikawa wanted them to fight, but realised that the Dempsey Roll is weak to counters, which would result in an easy victory for Miyata. He then made the Dempsey Roll stronger, but realised that now Ippo would easily beat Miyata. He decided to make Miyata's counters stronger by going on a training camp with Takamura. Morikawa deems it difficult to have the two fight at their "best"
•The name Ichirō means "one" (一) (ichi) and "son" (郎) (rō).
•Ichirō's surname Miyata means "temple, shrine, palace" (宮) (miya) and "field, rice paddy" (田) (ta).
Option 1: Miyata eventually challenges Ricardo/Sendo. Miyata loses, and is injured (similar to how Ippo was injured, but less severe) This is the spark that gets Ippo to make comeback. Ippo climbs his way back up the ranks, beats Ricardo/Sendo, and Ippo becomes world champ.
MiyaIppo is the slash ship between Ichirou Miyata and Ippo Makunouchi from the Hajime no Ippo fandom. Ippo first met Miyata at Kamogawa boxing gym, where they sparred to evaluate the former's ability. The match ended with Miyata being the victor, who deemed boxing just become more interesting because of this newcomer. They had a second rematch spar, where Ippo demonstrated his incredible ...
Jul 3, 2022 · Miyata and Ippo developed the star-crossed rivalry that runs through many shonen and sports anime. George Morikawa establishes early on in Hajime no Ippo that Miyata and Ippo would have a professional fight. The initial spars between Miyata and Ippo affected both individuals deeply. The outcomes pushed Miyata to take his training more seriously ...
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Jan 6, 2021 · In this What If Series, Miyata defeated Mashiba and advances to the East Japan Rookie King tournament to face Ippo Makunouchi.
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