Akihiko Honda

1964 to 1990s Honda has served as the president of the Teiken Promotions and Teiken Boxing Gym in Tokyo, Japan since 1964.

In the 1990s, in addition to the world title fights of Genaro Hernández, Eloy Rojas In 1999, Honda who was asked what to do to improve Japan's professional boxing responded as follows:

2000s to 2010s While making contributions to those issues over years, Honda worked on the world title fights of Cesar Bazan (since the 1990s), Edwin Valero He became the Japan's eighth world champion to be crowned across the sea. In April 2010, Honda arranged the de facto unification match Hozumi Hasegawa vs. Fernando Montiel. Hasegawa had wished to move to the featherweight division from more than two months ago, but he asked Honda to negotiate saying that he wanted to fight against Montiel even if his match fee would decline (Honda actually did not do it though).

Honda-promoted Akifumi Shimoda, who was the tenth Japanese boxer to risk his world championship belt outside Japan, lost his world title at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City in July 2011. Then Honda promoted the world title doubleheader headlined by Toshiaki Nishioka vs. Rafael Márquez at the MGM Grand Marquee Ballroom in Las Vegas in association with Top Rank and Zanfer Promotions in October 2011. Román González promoted by Honda Japan's WOWOW, The realization of that card owes much to a trust relationship with Bob Arum, the support of WOWOW which celebrated the twentieth anniversary at that time, and the popularity of Márquez. Nishioka's defense in the United States was planned from around 2009. Although Japan's professional boxing has some negative background, that was an aggressive overseas expansion in order to get higher status as a world champion. Honda made Nishioka the first Japanese boxer who defended the world title in the United States.

In addition to above mentioned Ōba, Nishioka and Linares, Honda has also promoted Jirō Watanabe (Osaka Teiken Boxing Gym), Tsuyoshi Hamada, His aim is to promote mega-fights in the United States, and bring up successful boxers who could be elected to the Hall of Fame.