I think most people don't know how I got into the world of professional wrestling and what kind of efforts I have made. There are many painful experiences of sweat and tears in it. Even so, I dared to make my half-life into a cartoon because I wanted as many fans as possible to know that there was a tough life battle behind the spectacular battle on the mat. If this manga encourages young people to live in the future, there is no better joy than this. (A part of Baba's words, excerpted from the work) Baba turned into a professional wrestler due to an injury. However, what awaits him to confront the ring crowded with powerful players ... A non-fiction comic depicting the half-life of the national hero, Giant Baba!

(from ebookjapan): Moka, Tochigi Prefecture, 1931. When Yujiro Watanabe, founder of the Japan Kenpo Club, visited Moka for a boxing match, a young boy jumped in to challenge Hanai, a professional boxer, and almost won. He was Tsuneo Horiguchi, captain of the Moka Junior High School Judo Club. Horiguchi went on to attend Waseda University, where he was welcomed into the Japan Kenpo Club by Watanabe, who saw in him a great talent. Horiguchi, who was devoted to a unique style that disregarded defense and just kept on hitting, participated in the Japan-France Kenpo tournament for the Japanese selection. His fighting style earned him the nickname "Piston". After advancing to the finals, Horiguchi faced his senpai, Kaneo Nakamura, who was known as a "knockout artist," and won. And so to the French-Japanese duel! This is the first work by Kajiwara Ikki and his last work. Behold the origin of Kajiwara's world! What the last sentence refers to is the manga being an adaptation of a short story (not a manga) that Kajiwara wrote in 1959, entitled Make Him Strike, and I Shoot (打たせて撃つ, Utasete Utsu), serving as his debut work. It is also his last as the manga was done in 1986, one year before his passing.

Ikki Kajiwara, one of the greatest Showa-era writers, and Jiro Tsunoda of "Horror Newspaper" fame team up to present this manga about camaraderie among three men. Koichiro Tsukasa, a race car driver, Shosuke Akatsuki, a horse racing jockey, and Yohei Otani, a professional skier, met by chance and have been unable to win any major competitions or achieve any success. Then, at a club in Roppongi, they meet Akiko Enjoji, the mistress of the president of a major electronics manufacturer, who is also known as "Mrs. Roppongi", an extremely beautiful woman. This encounter changes their destiny drastically, and all three of them start to think that they want to win a big competition. (Tankoban Originally published 6/30/1970) (from ebookjapan)