An African-American soldier stationed in Japan at Misawa Air Base, near Hachinohe, Ozuma proves a difficult opponent for Ippo in the first round of the Rookie King Tournament. While fearsome in fights, Ozuma's usual personality is almost unnervingly polite and outgoing. He boxes in order to earn money for his gym, his coach and his training partners, whom he treats like his own family. Ozuma wields an explosive hook equal even to, if not better than, Takamura's.  (Wikipedia)

Makunouchi Ippo has been bullied his entire life. Constantly running errands and being beaten up by his classmates, Ippo has always dreamed of changing himself, but never has the passion to act upon it. One day, in the midst of yet another bullying, Ippo is saved by Takamura Mamoru, who happens to be a boxer. Ippo faints from his injuries and is brought to the Kamogawa boxing gym to recover. As he regains consciousness, he is awed and amazed at his new surroundings in the gym, though lacks confidence to attempt anything. Takamura places a photo of Ippo's classmate on a punching bag and forces him to punch it. It is only then that Ippo feels something stir inside him and eventually asks Takamura to train him in boxing. Thinking that Ippo does not have what it takes, Takamura gives him a task deemed impossible and gives him a one week time limit. With a sudden desire to get stronger, for himself and his hard working mother, Ippo trains relentlessly to accomplish the task within the time limit. Thus Ippo's journey to the top of the boxing world begins.<br><br>

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Masahiro Kobayashi is a retired Japanese voice actor and actor who is most known for portraying Barret Wallace in the Japanese versions of Final Fantasy VII Advent Children and Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII as well as portraying Teruaki Takeda in the tokusatsu film Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack. He has also appeared in Seija No Koushin as Tatsuo Inose, Hajime No Ippo as Jason Ozuma and GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka as Hajime Hakamada.

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A Mexican voice actor. He is known for being the Latin American Spanish voice of Buzz Lightyear in the *Toy Story* movies, Lord Voldemort in *Harry Potter*, Max Tennyson in *Ben 10*, Michael Scott in *The Office* and Dr. Hank Pym in the *Marvel Cinematic Universe*. 
He is the recurring dub voice of Tim Allen.

He is the father of [Andrea Orozco](https://anilist.co/staff/139006/Andrea-Orozco), [Luis Fernando Orozco](https://anilist.co/staff/182224/Luis-Fernando-Orozco) and [Alejandro Orozco](https://anilist.co/staff/182229/Alejandro-Orozco)

Makunouchi Ippo has been bullied his entire life. Constantly running errands and being beaten up by his classmates, Ippo has always dreamed of changing himself, but never has the passion to act upon it. One day, in the midst of yet another bullying, Ippo is saved by Takamura Mamoru, who happens to be a boxer. Ippo faints from his injuries and is brought to Takamura boxing gym to recover. As he regains consciousness, he is awed and amazed at his new surroundings in the gym, though lacks confidence to attempt anything. Takamura places a photo of Ippo&rsquo;s classmate on a punching bag and forces him to punch it. It is only then that Ippo feels something stir inside him and eventually asks Takamura to train him in boxing. Thinking that Ippo does not have what it takes, Takamura gives him a task deemed impossible and gives him a one week time limit. With a sudden desire to get stronger, for himself and his hard working mother, Ippo trains relentlessly to accomplish the task within the time limit. Thus Ippo&rsquo;s journey to the top of the boxing world begins.<br><br>
(Source: MAL Rewrite)