Fighting

Takamura is outsped once more and knocked unconscious, but manages to recover just in time. Relying on what he has learned from the coach, he knocks down Hawk and discovers his weakness! An all-out brawl ensues and Takamura comes out on top! Takamura begins the next round with a KO proclamation - but can he really end the fight in this round?

Takamura takes the pace at the beginning of the match, but Hawk unveils his unique style that allows him to dodge and attack simultaneously! After being caught off-guard and taking a beating in the first round, Takamura uses his speedy footwork to circle around Hawk, but Hawk outspeeds him and knocks him down. Can Takamura learn to counter Hawk's wild fighting style in time?

Ippo manages to win his title defense with a 1-round KO as per his promise and rushes back to see Takamura. There, he sees all of the Japanese champions and former champions, including Eiji and Sendo,encouraging Takamura to do his best. After a flashy entrance ceremony, the long-awaited world title match finally begins!

The coach and Nagi see Hawk's devastating boxing firsthand. Takamura barely makes weight and is taunted by Hawk for his skinny appearance. Later, when a press conference turns into utter chaos, all of Japan roots for Takamura to beat Hawk. Ippo makes a risky promise to Takamura, but will he be able to fulfill it?

Takamura resolves to reach the top of the world for the sake of his friends and for the coach. In order to do so, he must lose 20 kilos (44 lbs) before the match. Takamura starves and dehydrates himself to accomplish his goal, but will he make it through this bout of extreme weight control?

Takamura attacks Hawk in a fit of anger, but Hawk effortlessly blocks his attack, stunning everyone. The Kamogawa gang reviews Hawk's previous matches and learn how terrifyingly strong he is. When Ippo and friends visit Takamura's home out of curiousity, Takamura's checkered past with his family is revealed.

Takamura's light punches and decreased stamina have put him at a great disadvantage, but when he sees a familiar and taunting face, his anger allows him to fight back. Bryan Hawk finally makes his appearance - but his behavior is far from that of a true champion...

Takamura and Ippo's next matches are finalized. Itagaki has a jarring introduction to the world of pro boxing when he fights a boxer desperate enough to cheat, and Kimura's Dragon Fish Blow can't seem to get the job done. To top it all off, Takamura has botched his weight management due to Aoki's revenge and is in no shape to fight! Can Takamura defeat the Filipino Middleweight Champion?

Ippo lowers his guard and it becomes a blow-for-blow confrontation, with Ippo winning out and knocking Nao down. Nao reflects on his past with Ippo as he gets up once more, only to be ultimately knocked out. Ippo remarks that Nao hasn't felt the pain of losing yet, and now that he has, he will become much stronger.

The match begins. Ippo goes on an all-out offensive, hoping to end this match as soon as possible, but Nao refuses to stay down until he has shown Ippo his new power! Nao makes use of relentless and forceful body blows, pushing Ippo into a corner.

Ippo is reluctant to fight Nao, who used to be his junior and friend. Nao faces his fear of fighting Ippo and resolves to let Ippo know how strong he has become firsthand. Who will come out on top?

The Kamogawa Boxing Gym gets a new recruit: Itagaki Manabu, the inter-high national runner up who happens to idolizes Ippo. Meanwhile, Ippo is hit with a blast from the past when he is challenged by Hammer Nao, his former junior who now seeks to defeat him and take his belt.

Date tries the heart-breaker shot but Martinez blocks it with his elbow breaking Date's hand. By the end of the round Date's hand, jaw, and ribs are broken. After ten rounds the match has a winner.

The world featherweight title match has begun, in the first round, neither Date or Martinez use their rights. The second round is more exciting than the first. In the third round, Martinez steps it up and becomes more aggressive.

After seven years Eiji Date will finally have his rematch with Ricardo Martinez, the world featherweight champion. The title match begins, Date starts the match off with two lefts, the second landing on the champion's face.

Ippo comes to the sparring match against Ricardo Martinez as focused as if it were a real match, and he is determined to land at least one hit on the World champion. However, Martinez's lightning-fast lefts and instant reflexes are like nothing Ippo's ever seen. Will Ippo's Dempsey Roll work on the strongest man in the world?

Miyata Ichirou wins the title of OPBF Featherweight Champion, but now Ippo feels even further from him than before. After his match, Date Eiji's second Title Match against Ricardo Martinez is officially finalized, after seven years. As they look at the boxing magazine, the coach comes in and says that Ricardo Martinez has requested a sparring match with Ippo.

The third episode of the second season continues on the OPBF Match with Miyata against Arnie. With almost everytime Miyata is about to fall down from hits of the champ, but then he tooks big step and takes the OPBF Champion Arnie Gregory to the ground. The count starts, and the episode ends.

The second episode of the second season starts off on Miyata's OPBF Title Match. With it Arnie showing his special weapon called Bloody Cross and Miyata throwing strong counters to escape from this techniques strange name 'Bloody Cross '.

The first episode of the second season starts with mostly the match of Miyata against Arnie. Shows Kimura sparring with Miyata and then the Weigh-in. Then the match is about to start, Miyata and Arnie are ready for battle!

What wonder what Dempsey Roll early in the 1st round, Ippo sends his best and most powerful blow while Sendo had not yet had time to get into position. The champion is found on land that is a panic down. But we suspected that Sendo was not going to stop there, he gets up with difficulty ... In revenge and especially to repel the new qu'Ippo Dempsey Roll is about to launch, the champion sent a straight right in the custody of our hero, not to worry, in theory ...

While the title match approach Ippo trains again and again. As it enters its footing, a crowd gathered in front of the room, there are people coming to buy their tickets for this match promises to be memorable. Yagi advertisement for Ippo that all match tickets were sold in one day, amazing. The next day is the day of the weigh-in. Ippo enters the room, always a little anxious, he sees Sendo, the defending champion has not changed, still relaxed too.

We find our hero in him, in his room, he can not help thinking about the game he has just seen in Osaka, acceleration Sendo, his blows so powerful and his expression bloodthirsty killer scared. The Ippo thoughts suddenly stopped by his mother. Kumi, the friend of ippo wants to talk on the phone joy Ho, Ho love, Ippo is quick to take the handset. After some discussion between timid, our lovebirds decide when even an appointment.

Ippo and coach arriving in the city where the featherweight champion, Takeshi Sendo must defend his title against Shigeta Akira, 4th category. At the beginning of the match, we see very manhandled by the champion challenger. Indeed, as Ippo, Sendo is struggling to impose its style of boxing against a southpaw boxer, that is to say a southpaw boxer. Sendo tries to put his best shots Shigeta, but it dodges every time and even manages to outsmart his famous fatal blow, the Smash.

Finally the day of the games of our boxers happens, Kimura very fit explodes his opponent, when Aoki to beat his opponent but as usual with a little more difficulty. But hey go to the main match of the evening, obviously this is the game Takamura who calls himself "the bear killer" now. While everyone is impatient in the room. Takamura offers us a memorable entrance, nay exceptional !!! He wears the skin of the bear Nekota-san brought him mountains.

After this strong hectic camp, we find our boxers at the gym. While the coach told them all to go to rest, two men have one a shin-coach nihon club and the other being Shigeta Akira, a young boxer ranked 4th featherweight and will therefore fight for the title against Sendo. The coach asks the coach if his boxer could eventually do a sparring ippo face. The coach agrees. We then see ippo completely lost against an opponent whose main feature is ...

Takamura fights a bear.

The group go to training camp in the mountains.

Second part of Aoki's and Kimura's past.

The past of Aoki and Kimura is shown.

Coach returns from the hospital, and Makunochi "hits without being hit".

Miyata Ichirou defeats Li Chou Bil.

Sendou wins the match versus Volg.

The match between Sendou Takeshi and Volg Zangief starts.

While the coach Okita Date and congratulated the champion, Ippo wishes to thank for this game then goes on a stretcher to applause from the audience ... We then see Takeshi Sendo raging against Ippo! He thought that he would win and would give him a match demand, but he realizes that there are now two people above him. Vorg then appeared, both boxers are actually in the same situation, they want to take their revenge on Makunouchi!

"What should I do?". This is the question that arises while Ippo Date street shots, then he remembers that he told Takamura just give the maximum for this fight. It resumes and cons Date of overkill shot! Champion legs no longer obey him and Ippo launches a huge live date but with its iron will narrowly dodge and 4th round ends. No one in the audience knows what will happen, not even the defending champion of average weight Takamura Mamoru.

During the break, Ippo is concerned, he has not had the sensation he usually hit when Date but his coach made him regain confidence in him. The beginning of the 3rd round is the perfect copy of the 2nd, shots exchanges and this time it's the date that takes advantage. But Ippo not allowed to do, Liver Blow launches and connects to a violent attack! Ippo but still has that feeling to touch and see in fact nothing Date Eiji swinging his head depending on the direction of the shot, a technique made to dissipate the power of the blows ...

The episode begins the day before the match for the title of Ippo, during training with mittens. But the latter is shortened, the coach looks ill. While Aoki asks Ippo to reach him, Kimura Takamura and Tomiko to make something interesting ... When the young boxer arrives, he learns that Tomiko will predict his future, but then refuses Takamura and Kimura are there to prevent him from leaving the coach then makes appearance and berates everyone !!!

"The champions have special powers! "That is what was said to Takamura Ippo before his defense of the title match. But after weight problems and a passage in a sauna that has significantly weakened, Takamura finds himself in trouble with his challenger Tamaki but still holds out and the gong sounds the end of the 1st round. The 2nd round barely begun, but Takamura load Tamaki is pushing his fitness is at its lowest, it is out of breath and roll with the punches of his opponent.

Background episode for Date Eiji.

Recap episode.

Group date, literally. Ippo walks Mashiba's Kumi home.

The end of the Volg match.

Volg and Ippo continue to duke it out in a hard-fought and long battle.

The match between Volg and Ippo begins.

The tactics of the coach against Vorg is based on a succession of sudden melee after which the least enduring two boxers will drop his guard for breath. The victory Ippo so upon his endurance. He will have to work hard breathing and cardiovascular system. In order to have a chance, the coach must impose an extremely strong pace to Ippo. Because of that, a few days before the game, Ippo begins to think that it will not recover in time from his training.

Aoki, Kimura & Ippo train hard for their next match of the tournament class A. They linked together jogging, sparring and Shadow Boxing to be at their best. It is time for the semifinals of Aoki. The match was balanced, but the 4th round, Aoki is counter to "the shot of the Frog" and collapses in the ring. But he gets up, feint and then delivers a powerful one to two who puts his opponent down. The latter in turn reports to, and through a nice web...

Gero-michi leaves and has to move away.

Ippo fights Saeki.

Ippo gets ready for his match against Saeki the Speed Star.