:Tadashi Tomori

Tomori won the Japan's inter-high school championship in the 45 kg class in 1977, and compiled an amateur record of 16–4 (3 KOs) before turning professional.{{Harvnb|Naoki Fukuda et al.|2000|p=62}} Hitoshi Misako who is the president of Misako Boxing Gym in Tokyo went to Okinawa, and encouraged Tomori to turn professional.{{Cite journal|author=Takashi Takahashi|title=世界王者になる方法教えます! Part 2 インタビュー 三迫仁志 & 輪島功一|date=April 18, 2000|journal=World Boxing|issue=special issue|publisher=Nippon Sports Publishing Co., Ltd.|location=Tokyo, Japan|language=Japanese|page=21}} After joining that gym in 1978, he made his professional debut at the Korakuen Hall in May of that year.

In March 1979, Tomori won the annual Japanese boxing series, All-Japan Rookie King Tournament in the junior flyweight division. Although he lost on points to Kazunori Tenryū in the Japanese junior flyweight title bout in November 1979, he knocked out the sixteen-time defending champion Tenryū in the first round of the return match in February 1980 to capture the title. However he lost on points to Shūichi Hozumi in his second defense in August of that year. He competed with Masaharu Inami for the vacated title, but it also ended in a failure.{{Cite journal |author=Seiichi Ashizawa |script-title=ja:ボクシング写真画報 |date= 1993|journal=World Boxing|issue=special issue |publisher=Nippon Sports Publishing Co., Ltd.|location=Tokyo, Japan |language=Japanese|page=26|title=ハンサム・ガイ 友利正}}

Originally Tomori was an out-fighter who excelled in the speed and skill. During his professional career, he had almost mastered the in-fighting to be spotlighted. However his transformation into an in-fighter was still incomplete.{{Harvnb|Naoki Fukuda et al.|2000|pp=62–63}} So, his manager Misako made him go to the temple for the sitting meditation practice in order to discipline his mind. Tomori regained the vacant Japanese title via a close decision in October 1981, and defended it once via a unanimous decision in his first professional fight in his hometown of Naha. At that time, Misako sensed that Tomori got a boost of energy, and set a world title shot for him.{{Harvnb|Naoki Fukuda et al.|2000|p=12}}

On April 13, 1982, Tomori was scheduled to fight against Amado Ursúa for the WBC junior flyweight title at the Korakuen Hall. He trained under the guidance of Eddie Townsend who signed a deal with Misako Boxing Gym in March of that year. After the champion's pre-fight open workout, Koichi Wajima, Tomori's senior in the same gym, commented that he wondered if Tomori could sustain himself for three rounds.{{Harvnb|Naoki Fukuda et al.|2000|p=63}} Nevertheless, he built a lead over Ursúa until the middle of the fight throwing his sharp right crosses and left jabs. In the later rounds Ursúa fought back fiercely, but was dethroned via a split decision.{{Sfn|Baseball Magazine Sha|2002|p=55}} Ursúa expressed dissatisfaction to the decision.{{Cite news|title=KU officials refuse comment on possible investigation – Boxing|author=AP|author-link=Associated Press|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=EyFdAAAAIBAJ&pg=1602,5891770|publisher=St. Joseph Gazette|date=April 14, 1982|page=4D|access-date=September 16, 2011}}

His first defense against Hilario Zapata was initially scheduled in Panama City on June 5, 1982. However it was postponed to July 20 and moved to the Ishikawa Sangyō Hall in Kanazawa, Ishikawa due to Tomori's rib injury.{{Cite news|title=Tomori-Zapata Fight To Be Held in Japan|author=AP|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bAEtAAAAIBAJ&pg=3557,3930412|publisher=The Palm Beach Post|date=June 17, 1982|page=D4|access-date=September 16, 2011}} In that first defense, Tomori lost to Zapata via a split decision.{{Cite news|title=Zapata regains title|author=UPI|author-link=United Press International|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OPVSAAAAIBAJ&pg=3631,5219326|publisher=Deseret News|date=July 20, 1982|page=2D|access-date=September 16, 2011}}{{Cite news|title=Zapata Regains Crown|author=AP|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wsBdAAAAIBAJ&pg=4796,5091171|publisher=The Victoria Advocate|date=July 21, 1982|page=3B|access-date=September 16, 2011}}{{Sfn|Baseball Magazine Sha|2002|p=56}} Misako protested the decision of the judges to the WBC,{{Cite news|title=Zapata Pounds Tomori|author=AP|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=c-swAAAAIBAJ&pg=2340,284463|publisher=Daytona Beach Morning Journal|date=December 1, 1982|page=6B|access-date=September 16, 2011}}{{Cite book|editor=Boxing Magazine editorial department|script-title=ja:日本プロボクシングチャンピオン大鑑|date=March 1, 2004|publisher=Baseball Magazine Sha Co., Ltd.|location=Tokyo, Japan|language=Japanese|isbn=978-4-583-03784-4|page=27|chapter=友利正}} and Tomori had a rematch with Zapata as a challenger at the Kuramae Kokugikan on November 30 of the same year. However Tomori who had believed his own victory in the previous fight, told that he would not be able to fight more than he did on July 20. He suffered a cut above his left eye from the sixth round, and was stopped in the eighth round after being floored in the seventh and eighth rounds.{{Cite news|title=Panamanian defends jr. flyweight crown|author=AP|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PXZhAAAAIBAJ&pg=3049,5588595|publisher=The Gadsden Times|date=November 30, 1982|page=10|access-date=September 16, 2011}}{{Sfn|Baseball Magazine Sha|2002|p=57}} Some time after that fight, Tomori retired.

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• {{Cite book|editor=Boxing Magazine editorial department|title=日本プロボクシング史 世界タイトルマッチで見る50年 (Japan Pro Boxing History – 50 Years of World Title Bouts)|date=May 31, 2002|publisher=Baseball Magazine Sha Co., Ltd.|location=Tokyo, Japan|language=Japanese|isbn=978-4-583-03695-3|pages=55–57, 297|ref={{Harvid|Baseball Magazine Sha|2002}}}}
• {{Cite book|author=Naoki Fukuda|editor=Boxing Magazine editorial department|title=The Glorious Moments 究極の栄光・世界チャンピオン名鑑 – 日本ボクシング史に輝く41人の男たち|series=B.B.mook; 117, sports series; No.72|date=January 15, 2000|publisher=Baseball Magazine Sha Co., Ltd.|location=Tokyo, Japan|language=Japanese|isbn=978-4-583-61076-4|pages=62–63, 107|chapter=友利正〜インファイトに世界への活路を見出す〜|display-authors=etal |ref={{sfnref|Naoki Fukuda et al.|2000}} }}

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