On the evening of December 31, 2021, Beijing time, the 33rd stage of RIZIN (Thor), known as the Japanese Fighting Spring Festival Gala, was held at the Saitama Super Stadium in Japan. After all the matches, RIZIN held a "graduation ceremony" for Nasugawa Tenshin, known as the Japanese fighting prodigy, to bid farewell to the star boxer of the Japanese fighting world.
The ceremony kicked off with a video from Kyoji Horiguchi, a famous Japanese boxer who had fought Nasugawa Tenshin in September 2018, from the United States. In the video, Kyoji Horiguchi congratulates Nasugawa Tenshin, saying, "Congratulations to Nasugawa Tenshin for graduating from the RIZIN (Thor) tournament and starting to enter the professional boxing world to meet new challenges. Come on in the future, oh, I look forward to your performance. If you want to participate in a mixed martial arts (MMA) event in the future, please be sure to come to me and I will teach you some ground techniques. ”
After the video was played, the official representative of the RIZIN (Thor) event read the graduation message. The representative of the Top Rank promotion company in Japan, which is responsible for the promotion of the Nasugawa Tenshin boxing event, delivered a welcome speech.
Then, nobuyuki Yukihara, CEO of the RIZIN event, took the stage alone and delivered a speech. He said: "Your past performances have shocked us, and even if you leave you will always be a representative boxer of RIZIN. Please do not abandon your adventurous spirit in the future life and work, and hope that you will be able to achieve more ambitious goals in the future. ”
At this time, Nasugawa Tenshin was already in tears, and after embracing Nobuyuki Yukihara, Nasugawa Tenshin took the stage to deliver his farewell speech. He said: "It's been five years, and I really appreciated everyone's care in the past years. Looking back on it now, I'm really happy. The starting point of my martial arts career at that time was just to challenge myself, and I was glad that my achievements were recognized by everyone. I don't know what kind of performance I can do in boxing, but in my heart, I have been a RIZIN (Thor) person all my life. In April and June, I will also cheer for everyone from the bottom of my heart. ”
At the end of the graduation ceremony, NObuyuki Yukihara, CEO of the RIZIN event, once again embraced Nasugawa Tenshin, whose feet had been lifted off the ground by the emotional CEO.
Finally, Nasugawa Tenshin returned to the ring to wave goodbye to boxing fans during the performance of his own special entrance accompaniment song "止まらない Ha~Ha".
Born on August 18, 1998 in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, 23, Nasugawa Tenshin has been training professionally with his father and siblings since he was five years old.
At the age of 13, Nasugawa Tenshin began amateur fighting competitions, and in more than two years, Nasugawa Tenshin played a total of 111 matches and won 105 games, of which 62 were won by KO. Due to the rarity of opponents in the lower age group of amateur competitions, Nasugawa Tenshin officially became a professional boxer at the age of 15.
After becoming a professional boxer, Nasugawa Tenshin's professional record is 40 wins in kickboxing (free fighting), including 30 KO opponents; mixed martial arts (MMA) matches 4 wins, 2 KO opponents; boxing exhibition matches 3 games 1 loss 2 times no result, of which the losing match, the opponent is the American boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Although he is only 23 years old now, Nasugawa Tenshin's career achievements have been beyond the reach of many boxers, including the RISE-55 kg championship, the BLADE-55 kg championship, the ISKA -55 kg world championship, the Rizin Kick-55 kg championship, the RISE featherweight world champion, and the ISKA Unified Rules featherweight (57 kg) world championship. For his outstanding performance, Nasugawa Tenshin also won the 2016 Knockdown Of the Year Award and the 2019 Male Boxer of the Year Award from the third-party organization CombatPress.
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