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Ippo was styled on Mike Tyson in his early years. The original comic was started in 1989 when Tyson was still on top of the world heavyweight divisions.

The series is based on a long running manga in Japan. Besides the series itself, there's also an OVA featuring a fight between Kimura and Mashiba, another that features a Takamura-based storyline that is an episode in length, and a full length movie that follows the end of the series into Ippo's next fight.

Based on a Japanese boxing-themed manga series written and illustrated by George Morikawa. It has been serialized by Kodansha in the Shounen manga magazine Weekly Shounen Magazine since October 1989.