Birthdate - 1/19/82
5'8" 172 lbs. - Japan

Athletic background - n/a

Professional background - BattlARTS, DEEP(`02), U-Style(`03-)

Team - BattlARTS

Career Highlights - n/a

Favorites -
- Flying Armbar
- Triangle Chokehold
- Heel Hook
- Kneebar
- Jumping Knee
- Mid Kick

Ringwork Rating -
technique - 9
science - 6
counters - 7
transitions - 7
diversity - 8
power - 6
strikes - 6

Intangible Rating -
entertainment - 7
selling - 6
toughness - 7
carrying - 7
heat - 5
potential - 7

Outlook - Manabu Hara is one of the interesting young talents who has arisen from the late BattlARTS era. He's gotten a great chance with Kiyoshi Tamura's U-Style and seems to have taken to the style very well and it's a better route than MMA. Though he was successful in his singular outing with DEEP as he put away a nobody in mere minutes in punches, Hara is better suited for the realistic shoot-style. That style which MMA has depopularized still has a fringe appeal and it needs quality workers to help it grow and develop, Hara can be one of those. He has a place in it and has a particularly wide-base to work with, so hopefully he can blossom into the type of star the genre needs.