Comments Thread For: Longtime Teiken Gym manager Haru Nagano dies at age 99

[BoxingUpdates]

Haru Nagano, the elderly manager at Japan's Teiken Gym, passed away in old age.
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[MexicouFistology]

Lived a full life.

[JeBron Lamez]

Rest in peace, Miss Nagano.

As a Jorge Linares fan, thank you for your amazing dedication.

[MulaKO]

R.I.P. Miss Nagano
And thank you

[Elheath]

Born exactly a century ago in 1925, lived through the turmoils of WW2, and been a manager at Teiken Gym since its foundation era post-war, and was there to celebrate the birth of every world champion from Teiken Gym starting from "The Eternal Champion" Masao Ohba, the first non-Japanese champion to debut as a boxer in Japan like Jorge Linares to the likes of Shinsuke Yamanaka and Ryota Murata and more, all the way to the most recent Shokichi Iwata just two month ago.

The woman who is known as the "Godmother of Japanese Boxing" was studying to become a teacher until WW2 dashed her dreams. Looking for any kind of a job in the post-war era, she initially got hired to be the secretary to a businessman named Akira Honda, who was starting up his own boxing gym, the Teiken Gym. Eventually she became more and more involved in the administration and management work. When Akira Honda passed away in 1965 he had named his son Akihiko Honda as his successor in his will, but at the time Akihiko was only 17 years old highschool student and the rest of the management wasn't really positively accepting of the idea. Determined to make Akira's wishes come true, she convinced the widow (Akihiko's mother) to give her name as president while Akihiko was going through college and learning about business. In those years, Nagano essentially ran and managed the Gym and its boxers helping the widow who knew nothing about boxing. After Akihiko graduated university and officially took over as president of Teiken Gym, Haru Nagano still stayed as a manager to help the young man eventually become the equivalent of Bob Arum/Don King of Japanese boxing.

She has many personal episodes with the Teiken boxers as well, but yes, was a well respected living history of Japanese boxing. RIP, Haru Nagano.

Edit: The fact that all four organizations mentions her on their social media kinda describes how big of a role she gave despite being a manager, not a promoter or trainer or even a former boxer.

[rudy]

I wish there was more they could have written list all the fighters she has worked with would have been nice

[rudy]

Born exactly a century ago in 1925, lived through the turmoils of WW2, and been a manager at Teiken Gym since its foundation era post-war, and was there to celebrate the birth of every world champion from Teiken Gym starting from "The Eternal Champion" Masao Ohba, the first non-Japanese champion to debut as a boxer in Japan like Jorge Linares to the likes of Shinsuke Yamanaka and Ryota Murata and more, all the way to the most recent Shokichi Iwata just two month ago.

The woman who is known as the "Godmother of Japanese Boxing" was studying to become a teacher until WW2 dashed her dreams. Looking for any kind of a job in the post-war era, she initially got hired to be the secretary to a businessman named Akira Honda, who was starting up his own boxing gym, the Teiken Gym. Eventually she became more and more involved in the administration and management work. When Akira Honda passed away in 1965 he had named his son Akihiko Honda as his successor in his will, but at the time Akihiko was only 17 years old highschool student and the rest of the management wasn't really positively accepting of the idea. Determined to make Akira's wishes come true, she convinced the widow (Akihiko's mother) to give her name as president while Akihiko was going through college and learning about business. In those years, Nagano essentially ran and managed the Gym and its boxers helping the widow who knew nothing about boxing. After Akihiko graduated university and officially took over as president of Teiken Gym, Haru Nagano still stayed as a manager to help the young man eventually become the equivalent of Bob Arum/Don King of Japanese boxing.

She has many personal episodes with the Teiken boxers as well, but yes, was a well respected living history of Japanese boxing. RIP, Haru Nagano.

Edit: The fact that all four organizations mentions her on their social media kinda describes how big of a role she gave despite being a manager, not a promoter or trainer or even a former boxer.

This what i am talking about thank you