Sendai Tanaka is one of the few outstanding trainers from Asia, and has a reputation especially for his focus mitts training.
25 Facts About Sendai Tanaka
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Sendai Tanaka joined Sendai Gym in the first year of Miyagi Prefectural Fisheries High School.
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Sendai Tanaka had adored Sadahiro Gonohe, the president of Hachinohe Teiken Boxing Gym, who is known as a theorist.
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Sendai Tanaka actively participated in the Spanish-speaking people's parties and masses, where he got acquainted with an Argentine family.
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Sendai Tanaka lived together with them like a homestay for over a year.
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Sendai Tanaka went to Mexico for practice with about 7,100 dollars earned by part-time job.
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Sendai Tanaka began working in Mexico, but his final destination was Argentina.
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Whenever Sendai Tanaka has time to spare, he headed from Mexico to Argentina.
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When Sendai Tanaka was twenty-two years old, then twenty-one-year-old Marco Antonio Barrera came to the gym where he was training, and asked for his focus mitts workout.
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Successively, Sendai Tanaka guided him to a victory in the fight against Naseem Hamed in April 2001.
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Sendai Tanaka learned at gatherings and conferences in Mexico, the United States and Argentina.
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Sendai Tanaka received their guidance to learn the techniques, and coached boxers there.
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When Brusa had coached the Golden Boy-promoted boxers in Los Angeles and Big Bear City, California, Sendai Tanaka studied under him.
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Sendai Tanaka recognized Brusa as the best master and called him Maestro.
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Sendai Tanaka received his guidance every time he met Brusa.
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Sendai Tanaka started to coach in Japan at times other than Barrera's training, and signed a deal with Teiken Boxing Gym in May 2003.
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In Linares' first world title shot in Las Vegas, Nevada in July 2007, Sendai Tanaka served as the chief second among Rudy Perez, Rudy Hernandez and Kenny Adams.
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Sendai Tanaka later told that he changed the plan during the fight and Linares neatly ran it since he was a superior boxer.
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Sendai Tanaka has so far trained the world champions such as Erik Morales, Lorenzo Parra, Edwin Valero, Jorge Linares, Roman Gonzalez, Takahiro Ao et al.
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Sendai Tanaka had been chosen for the twenty-second Eddie Townsend Award in 2011, but declined it for personal reasons.
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Sendai Tanaka visited Brusa in Santa Fe, Argentina in January 2010.
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Sendai Tanaka daily went to the boxing gym with Brusa to coach boxers there.
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Sendai Tanaka has continued to be a trainer in order to become an Amilcar Brusa.
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Sendai Tanaka wanted to receive the long-term guidance from Brusa, but could not have that time.
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Sendai Tanaka wanted to come back in the original intention not to be puffed up in the comfortable situation.