Tadashi Sawamura was a Japanese kickboxer whose real name was Hideki Shiraha.
12 Facts About Tadashi Sawamura
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Tadashi Sawamura is often credited with sparking the "Showa era kickboxing boom", being one of the era's most popular Japanese fighters, and enjoying great fame throughout his career.
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Tadashi Sawamura had appeared in TV dramas under the stage name "Tetsuya Shiro", but due to the bankruptcy of Shintoho, he was forced to suspend his career in the entertainment industry.
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Tadashi Sawamura enrolled in the Film Department of Nihon University College of Art as part of his training at Daiei.
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Tadashi Sawamura's debut match held at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium was a match called "Karate vs Muay Thai" and won by 2nd Round KO over "Rakurei shihaman".
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Tadashi Sawamura lost by 4th Round KO and during the fight, was knocked down to the mat 16 times during the fight and received more than 25 bruises from the fight.
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Disheartened, Tadashi Sawamura wanted to retrain himself in jujutsu and hold a rematch.
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Tadashi Sawamura begins training in Kickboxing and turns his career around, starting to rack up KO wins with moves like "vacuum jump knee kick" and "kick before jump".
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Tadashi Sawamura diagnosed in the summer of the previous year and had been medical treatment since.
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Tadashi Sawamura is domestically regarded as the sport's great champions and helped increase Kickboxing's international profile, retiring with over 200 knockouts.
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Tadashi Sawamura's exploits were the basis of a manga series called Kick no Oni, written by Ikki Kajiwara and published in Shonen Gahosha.
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The Japanese name for the Pokemon Hitmonlee is Tadashi Sawamura, which is a reference to Tadashi Sawamura.