He lives with his mother, Hiroko Makunouchi, and helps with the family charter boat fishing business—a job which has developed his lower body well enough to become an effective boxer.
After seeing a video of Tyson, Ippo becomes inspired to take up boxing to feel reborn with strength and asks Takamura to get him into Kamogawa Gym.
His natural talents include stamina, balance and enough punching power to turn around a match instantly; combined with his superb fighting spirit, these assets lead to his comebacks victories and have allowed him to overcome any technical shortcomings.
Ippo then followed up with the Gazelle punch (an uppercut using the strength of the legs for additional power), which made Sendo's jaw fly up and stunned him for a few seconds.
His current record as a professional boxer is 26 matches, 23 wins and 3 losses with all 23 victories by KO, and at his peak he had held the seventh ranking in the WBC.
Gonzales won the fight after being luckily saved from a second knockdown by the ropes and caused massive damage to Ippo in his final attack.
Ten months after the fight with Gonzalez, Ippo returns to the ring to fight Filipino Featherweight Champion Antonio Guevara with the goal of unveiling a new Dempsey roll, but loses due to fatigue before being able to display the fruits of his training to his expectations, feeling indebted to Coach Kamogawa who had supported him for so long.
Ippo retires after this fight as promised due to his own worry over punch drunk syndrome and injuries he sustained, prioritizing his ability to work in the family business for his mother's sake over boxing.
He is currently employed as a second at the Kamogawa gym while acting as a trainer for his new, young pupils Taihei Aoki and Kintarō Kaneda.
At one point when training in the mountains, he runs afoul of a mother bear who he defeated by repeatedly punching it in the forehead, but not before it clawed deep gouges into his chest and arms.
After the incident, Takamura continues to brawl in the streets out of utter boredom until he meets Coach Kamogawa, who stepped in to keep him from killing someone after noting his powerful right.
After weeks of relentless running and forcing him to use only left jabs - and without a single sparring session - Takamura defeats his first opponent twenty-five seconds into the first round.
But despite his prodigious natural talent, his determination to achieve greatness has pushed himself to work tirelessly at his craft, and he suffered through painful weight control without complaint to reach the world stage.
Masaru Aoki (青木 勝, Aoki Masaru) Tatsuya Kimura (木村 達也, Kimura Tatsuya) Manabu Itagaki (板垣学, Itagaki Manabu) Ichirō Miyata (宮田 一郎, Miyata Ichirō) Takeshi Sendō (千堂 武士, Sendō Takeshi) Sendō is an aggressive mid-range fighter, and his specialty punch is the "Smash", Deadly Smash and Ultra Low Smash which was popularized and created by Donovan Ruddock.
In a recent interview with Shōnen Magazine, Hajime no Ippo's manga artist, George Morikawa said that Hidekazu Akai was also one of his models for Sendo.
By high school, Sendo had already become one of the most feared street fighters and gang leaders in Osaka, but not attacking people, rather defending the weak.
Sendo is ranked 5th by the WBA and declared his ambition to defeat the WBA champion, Ricardo Martinez albeit not before indirectly threatening Ippo's most recent opponent (and the boxer who handed the latter his second loss) Alfredo Gonzales, instructing his most recent knockout victim to inform Gonzales that he'll 'see him real soon.'