Takamura was the estranged middle son of the famous Takamura Enterprises, supported by his older sister Kyōka and younger brother Wataru. His eldest brother, Suguru, a former rugby standoff, constantly belittled his vast boxing accomplishments and carried on the stigma that Mamoru is simply a thug that thrives on beating up others. One time during Suguru's rugby game, his team was crushed and fans were insulting him, and that was when Takamura injured about 20 of the fans, making Suguru's team penalised with a year suspension. Despite his family's impressive wealth, Takamura would later live off of his own earnings as a pro boxer.
When Aoki and Kimura joined the Kamogawa gym with the goal to hit Takamura at least once, Takamura decided to let them spar against him everyday, making them train harder to achieve their goal, resulting in them getting stronger and eventually, they land a scratch on Takamura's face. Takamura then helped them win in their debut matches, with Takamura being the only one who could bring Kimura back to his senses when he was nervous. Despite Takamura teasing them about barely winning their debut match, his influence on the two made them continue boxing with the goal of one day defeating him.
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Takamura and Ippo watched Miyata's fight against Teruhiko Takada. After Miyata won, Takamura noted Miyata's growth. Takamura, along with the rest of the Kamogawa group, went to the training camp at the beach. There, everyone trained by running in the sand, sparring, and shadow boxing. When Takamura noticed Ippo's weak point, Takamura showed his bare foot to Ippo to show him his blister. He explained that Ippo needed to work on his feet to boost his speed performance. On the final night at the training camp, Takamura stated that the Japanese title is just a stepping stone and that his final goal is the world champion title. When he and the others got back to the gym, Haruhiko Yagi showed everyone the poster of Takamura match against the Japanese middleweight champion and Ippo's match against Kenta Kobashi.
When the day of Takamura's match against the Japanese middleweight champion arrived, the match commenced. Despite an organised cheering squad being there for the champion, Takamura had the support of most attendants. Motivated by his dream of achieving a world title and returning with the JBC belt to Kamogawa, Takamura quickly rushed to his opponent as soon as the bell rung, but was hit by a counter, thus touching the canvas for the first time in his career. With the help of hearing Ippo, Aoki, and Kimura calling his name, he got up at the count of eight, and viciously knocked the champion out by shattering his jaw. After being crowned, he celebrated his and Ippo's win that night at the Sugar Ray. Takamura walked with Ippo to his house, before Ippo leaves, he was about to give his thanks to him for cheering, instead he encouraged Ippo to get the Rookie King title.
Due to a new boxing boom, a television station visited the Kamogawa gym in order to capture how the youth put their hopes in boxing. The interviewer was the idol, Kumiko Morita. After the event, the television crew left the gym. When the event got shown on television where Takamura and the others got interviewed, Takamura noticed that Ippo sent a challenge to the champion Date over a national broadcast. He also witnessed seeing the interview at the Otowa gym where Russian boxer Alexander Volg Zangief claimed to want Date's belt. When Yamada left the gym for his Pro Test, Takamura went along with him to the Kōrakuen Hall. When Yamada won the Pro Test match, Takamura, Aoki, and Kimura "lectured" two people that were making comments about Yamada while he was fighting.
Later, Takamura showed Ippo a magazine containing Date's match from six years ago against the WBA featherweight champion Ricardo Martínez where Date lost in two rounds. After telling Ippo the details about Date, Takamura asked how Ippo will fight him, which Ippo claimed to just throw everything he has at him. Takamura later attended a training camp at Izu for his title defence. When the weigh-in commenced, Takamura was overweight by 200g. Takamura attempted to shed off the last bit for the next weigh-in by running. Seeing that the exercise did not work, he went to a sauna along with Ippo. Takamura explained to Ippo in the sauna that champions have a special power and to watch him, as he will show Ippo the power of a champion, shortly passing out from the heat. Takamura barely passed the final weigh-in and went to the ring to challenge the first ranker, Atsushi Tamaki.
The next day, Takamura did roadwork with Aoki, Kimura, and Ippo. When he returned, leaving the three behind, Aoki and Kimura came back and urgently informed everyone that Ippo was getting attacked by a bear. However, the "bear" turned out to be Nekota's dog, Hachi. Kamogawa announced to everyone that they would be staying at the pension for a week and had Takamura run while carrying Yagi on his back. When Takamura was done with his training and went back to the house, Ippo told him that he heard of a way of punching without punching, which Takamura believed to know what it was. Later, Takamura listened as Kamogawa explained to everyone about Sakki, a feint with soul, and showed them pictures of him and Nekota in their boxing days. Seeing as Ippo was not understanding the difference between Sakki and a normal feint, Takamura decided to show him in a spar. When the spar began, Takamura used full swings as Ippo dodged. Takamura then used the Sakki, confusing Ippo as he felt he saw a punch coming but it did not come. Seeing that Ippo finally understood Sakki, Takamura stopped the spar. Aoki then got into the ring, think that he got the theory behind it, wanting to test it on Takamura. When Aoki ducked into the Frog Punch position, he asked Takamura if he could see him jumping. Takamura proceeded to kick him for joking around. Takamura then continued training for the day.
The next day, they said their goodbyes and went back to the gym. After they get back to the gym, Takamura watched a spar between Ippo and Akira Shigeta, a southpaw boxer. Later, Takamura told many reporters about how he defeated the bear until Kamogawa kicked them out. Fujii then stayed and accidentally revealed that Takamura was going to have a world match. As the secret was out, Kamogawa explained to Takamura that the second ranked in the world in the junior middleweight class is scouting for an opponent to be an undercard for a world title card. While the opponent saw Takamura, who was ranked 16th in the world in the middleweight class and champion of a small country, as small fry, if Takamura won he would take the second rank placement and the number one contender for the world title. This announcement made Takamura fired up and he began hitting the sandbag,
A month and a half before Ippo's title match against Sendō, Fujii visited the Kamogawa gym after Ippo's five knockout streak during his spars. Takamura wondered where Mari was, which Fujii answered that she went to Osaka for research. When the match poster for the match was put on the gym's windows, Aoki asked what a "Lallapallooza" was while mispronouncing it. Takamura tried to correct him but also mispronounced it wrong, and when Yagi pronounced it correctly and explained what it was, Takamura arrogantly agreed as if he knew. Takamura then angered Aoki and Kimura by acting shocked that they haven't had a title match in the five years they had been boxing. On the day of Ippo's title match, Takamura went to the Kōrakuen Hall to watch the match. During round two, Aoki and Kimura began stomping their feet with the audience, cheering for Ippo. Takamura stopped them from getting their hopes up by reminding them while the two were even in offence and defence, something else would determine the winner, with Ippo losing. During the fifth round, when Ippo got hit by a Cross Counter, Takamura stood and yelled at Ippo to fight back and finish it or he is done for. After Ippo won the match on the seventh round and became the JBC featherweight champion, Takamura, Aoki, and Kimura took Ippo to his home. When they got there, Ippo immediately went to bed. Takamura believed that Ippo probably won't believe that he is the champion until he reads the papers and looks at his champion belt. A few days later, Takamura went to the Sugar Ray for Ippo's celebration and birthday party. When Ippo was gifted a puppy from Nekota, it defecated on Ippo's champion belt. Takamura then nicknamed Ippo the "Poop Champion" (ウンコ チャンピオン, Unko Chanpion).
At the Kamogawa gym, Kamogawa revealed for the annual Champion Carnival, Kimura would be fighting the JBC junior lightweight champion Mashiba. When Kimura left to meet someone who he knew would be able to help him, Takamura predicted that it would be Miyata. At his house, when Ippo believed that Kimura has bad luck due to his opponent being Mashiba, Takamura claimed that Ippo was the one with bad luck due to his relationship with Kumi being affected and made him call the Mashiba family's house to make up with Kumi. Ryō answered the phone instead, however, making the plan fail. The next day, since Takamura told Aoki and Kimura about their conversation, Ippo got teased by Aoki and Takamura while Kimura was angry that Mashiba is looking down on him. When Kimura left for the Kawahara gym in order to spar with Miyata, Takamura told Ippo how Aoki is nervous about the situation, as his rival is going for his first title match and wishes to help Kimura, but he does not have the strength to. When Mari gave Ippo the tapes of Mashiba that he asked for and she commented how great friends everyone at the gym were, Takamura claimed that he was up all night thinking of a strategy for Kimura, pointing out the obvious to watch out for the reach difference. After two and a half weeks of Kimura's absence from the Kamogawa gym, Takamura, Ippo, and Aoki went to the Kawahara gym to observe Kimura's spar against Miyata. After witnessing Kimura using an in-fighter's way of boxing, Takamura, Ippo, and Aoki discussed how impressive picking up a new fighting style in a short span of time is, however, Takamura believed that Kimura will soon realise something and have a desperate shock while trying to go through with his plan. 2ff7e9595c
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