On July 20, 2020, the official coloured t-shirts that are themed for the Hajime no Ippo 30th Anniversary Featherweight Tournament was sold at the BASE until August 10, 2020. A total of 150 people can win, with a lucky 100 people winning a set of two Quo Cards of the Weekly Shōnen Magazine's 26th issue cover and colour double page of Round 1300. In celebration, a 'Wonderful Present Campaign' was held, where buyers of the issue would take part in a lottery to win prizes consisting of Quo Cards and Clear Files of Hajime no Ippo illustrations. Hajime no Ippo reached its 1300th chapter on in the Weekly Shōnen Magazine's 26th issue. Also due to coronavirus, the finals for Morikawa's featherweight tournament was delayed until August 22, 2020, where they planned to Crowd Fund the event in order to cover the various costs. The exhibition was extended from Juntil August 30, 2020, where additional measures against colds and seasonal flu were taken.

The 'Hajime no Ippo: The Great Original Art Exhibition' will also be suspended during this period.

On March 2, 2020, it was announced that in response to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, the temporary closure of the Ishinomaki Mangattan Museum from March 3 to May 31. On January 17, 2020, it was announced that an art exhibit in Miyagi was going to be taking place at the Ishinomori Manga Museum in the exhibition room on the second floor from Februto April 12, 2020. In celebration of the series' 30th year of serialisation, a series of books called Best Bout of Hajime no Ippo! were published based on the favourite matches and spars in the series. The play featured the beginning of the manga. It was revealed in the issue 36-37 of Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2019 that Hajime no Ippo was inspiring its first stage play, Hajime no Ippo: The Glorious Stage!! in January 2020. The Hajime no Ippo exhibit offers a person the chance to catch ten leaves with jabs.

It was just one of a hundred different sports manga series involved with the event, where it had interactive exhibits. Hajime no Ippo took part of an exhibit, Sports x Manga, that combines sports manga and technology to help promote the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics from 7/13/19 to 9/29/19. On August 2, 2019, it was announced that an art exhibit would take place in Tokyo at the Seibu Shibuya Store - Movida Building in the Special Venue on the 6th floor to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Hajime no Ippo from Novemto December 1, 2019. On Ap, it was announced that Morikawa was sponsoring a featherweight tournament for featherweight boxers with Dangan Promotion to help promote boxing and 30 years of Hajime no Ippo, where 8 boxers will take part to win a prize of 1 million yen.

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