Teruaki Murakami

Teruaki Murakami retired around 10 years before the events of Ashita no Joe. Nowadays he runs a Yakitori stand near Chinatown in Tokyo accompanied by his dog he named "Jose". ~!Before Joe, Murakami was the only Japanese boxer to have fought Jose Mendoza. Murakami had traveled to Mexico to train, and during that trip he had an unofficial underground bout against Mendoza. Mendoza at the time was only 16 years old and still just an amateur.!~ ~!Murakami describes Jose as having been smaller than a flyweight, but pun…