Tenshin Nasukawa

Tenshin Nasukawa is one of the rare athletes whose ambition genuinely excites me. From karate roots in Chiba he became a pound-for-pound great in kickboxing, then deliberately reinvented himself in MMA and professional boxing. Plenty of fighters guard their legacy; Nasukawa keeps gambling his. That willingness to abandon a comfortable peak and start over in a new discipline is, to me, the mark of a true competitor rather than a brand manager. His kickboxing brilliance is already history, but it is his appetite for unfamiliar territory that keeps me watching. I respect courage more than records.

Name (English)

Tenshin Nasukawa

Name (Japanese)

那須川天心

Reading

なすかわ てんしん

Born

August 18, 1998 (age 27)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Tiger

Origin

Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

karateka / kickboxer / mixed martial arts fighter / professional boxer

• Official sitehttps://ten-shin.jp/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/tenshin.nasukawa/
• Xhttps://x.com/TeppenTenshin
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenshin%20Nasukawa
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%82%A3%E9%A0%88%E5%B7%9D%E5%A4%A9%E5%BF%83
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42302288

Tags

• Chiba Prefecture
• karateka
• kickboxer
• mixed martial arts fighter

Last updated

2026-06-20

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.