Former professional boxer and actor Hidekazu Akai made his first appearance on TV Asahi’s variety show “Shikujiri Sensei: Don’t be like me! (broadcast on October 31). Hidetsugu Shibata of “Untouchable” appeared with him as a “second” in the class and shared some crazy stories from his delinquent days. He shared some of the lessons he had learned from his life as a juvenile delinquent. Akai, who is now 66 years old, started boxing in high school. He started boxing in high school and turned pro while a student at Kinki University. He set a brilliant record of 12 consecutive KO victories after his debut, and became an actor in 1989. He has starred in numerous films, including “Dotsuitarunen,” “High School Teacher,” “Hanzawa Naoki,” and many others. As a boxer, Akai captivated audiences with his super-aggressive style of boxing, in which he would go forward and knock down his opponents rather than defend himself. He was nicknamed “Naniwa no Rocky” (Rocky of Naniwa). Not only was he a strong boxer, but his lovable character also attracted attention, and he became a top-class boxer with both popularity and ability. However, he confessed that he had made a number of mischievous misadventures on his way to becoming a top boxer. Behind this was his wrong way of thinking, “I don’t think about the future even once! He said, “Now that I think about it again, I realize how messed up I really was…. I’m sorry now, so please bear with me. In elementary school, Akai was an honor student, serving on the class committee in each grade, and taking part in many lessons at the same time. However, that all changed when he entered junior high school. On his first day of school, he said, “The only way to make friends is to fight! I’m going to get in a fight! He quickly became the leader of his class. The studio members were surprised at the drastic change from an honor student and said, “That’s a sudden change! (Masayasu Wakabayashi, Audrey) and “I thought I skipped a page in my textbook…” (Tasuku Sawabe, Haraichi). The studio members were astonished. He was in his third year of junior high school and faced the ordeal of taking the high school entrance exam, when he got into a standoff with a “certain someone” while he was putting his feet up on a desk in the exam hall. When it was revealed that the other person was Tomizuma Masashi, a famous gang leader in the Kansai region at the time who later became active as a professional boxer, the studio was in an uproar. He was found smoking immediately after the entrance ceremony at his high school and was suspended from the first day of school. He also recalled that he was addicted to fighting in high school, which he called “world reformation. Akai had his own rules for world reformation: “I would not bully the weak,” “I would not touch younger students,” and “I was trying to defeat evil people who were causing trouble in the world. The studio was again in an uproar when he heard that a junior high school yankee student a year younger than him was going around saying, “I’m the one who will defeat Akai! Akai went to the junior high school and confessed that he “beat him up and humiliated him” in front of the whole school. Hearing this, the studio members responded, “Younger, younger! Where are the rules? Where are the rules? Moreover, it turned out that the younger yankee was actually Kameda Shiro’s older brother. Sawabe was surprised at the unexpected connection, saying, “Isn’t Osaka too small? Sawabe was surprised. As a result of his many mistakes, Akai was forced to stay in school after his first year of high school. However, he recalled that this mistake led him to enter the world of boxing, and the studio was very moved by this fateful connection. The second part of the episode will be broadcasted on “ABEMA” on August 7, including the story of his failure in his quest to become a world champion and his life-and-death struggle leading up to his retirement.
