Fighting Spirit

Episode 47

23min - Ippo meets Volg after Volg gets lost. Volg tells Ippo that he boxes so he can get money for his mother.

Episode 48

23min - The match with Ippo and Volg begins and the two boxers seem to get the edge over one another quite a bit.

Episode 49

23min - The fight between Ippo and Volg carries on. Ippo takes a lot of hits and gets knocked down a couple times.

Episode 50

23min - After many rounds, Ippo and Volg are both exhausted. After the match is finished Volg visits Ippo in the hospital and meets Ippo's mother.

Episode 51

23min - Ippo wakes up after a couple of days at the hospital. When Ippo is in the hospital he meets Mashiba's sister, Aoki, Kimura, Takemura, and Ippo go on a group date.

Episode 52

23min - A recap of some of Ippo's fights told by Date.

Episode 53

23min - The date's past is revealed. Takemura gets ready for his match.

Episode 54

23min - Takemura has real trouble at the beginning of his match. Ippo finds out that Mashiba won the championship and celebrates with him and his sister.

Episode 55

23min - Ippo's title match with Date has begun, Date is surprised by how much better Ippo is since the last time he sparred with him.

Episode 56

23min - Ippo punches Date in the face quite a bit but Date isn't taking the full impact of the punch because he twists his neck.

Episode 57

23min - Both Ippo and Date are beaten up badly. The match reaches the climax.

Episode 58

23min - After Ippo loses he finds out that Sendo and Volg will fight for the title. Kamogawa tells Ippo that he shouldn't go to the gym for three months because of all the damage from his fights. Ippo goes out with Kumi, Mashiba's sister.

Episode 59

23min - Ippo watches his match with Date. Ippo goes to watch the title match with Volg and Sendo, when he's there he runs into Miyata and spectates the match with him.

Episode 60

23min - Volg and Sendo face off with the crowd cheering for Sendo, in the end, the match comes down to a decision by the judges.

Episode 61

23min - Aoki, Kimura, and Ippo will all be making their comeback match with Ippo being the main event. Kamogawa trains Ippo to have a better defense but overworks himself and collapses he then ends up in a hospital.

Episode 62

23min - Aoki, Kimura, and Ippo have their comeback matches. Ippo tries a new move, the Dempsy Roll.

Episode 63

23min - Aoki, Takemura, and Ippo visit Kimura because he has a high fever. Aoki's and Kimura's life as delinquents is shown.

Episode 64

23min - A look at how Aoki and Kimura became boxers and joined the Kamogawa gym, also shown is their debut matches.

Episode 65

23min - Sendo beats Saeki the speed star comfortably. Sendo wants a fight with Ippo. All the guys from the gym go to training camp in the mountains and meet Kamogawa's friend.

Episode 66

23min - The guys learn that killer intent can make it seem like you're throwing a punch. Kamogawa and Nekota's history with one another is told. Takamura battles a bear. Everyone finishes training camp.

Episode 67

23min - Ippo spars with Shigeta who's ranked fourth among Japanese featherweights and who also use southpaw. People find out about Takemura's fight with a bear. There is talk about Takemura getting a world title fight.

Episode 68

23min - Aoki, Kimura, and Takemura all fight their fights. Before fighting Takemura makes a grand entrance wearing a bear pelt and fights his match only using his left hand. Nekota starts teaching at the gym for a bit.

Episode 69

23min - Sendo begins his title defense match with Shigeta the southpaw user. Sendo fights Shigeta but gets angry with him as the fight goes on.

Episode 70

23min - Ippo invites Kumi to the zoo. Kumi lets Ippo know that she was the one who wrote idiot outside the gym. Sendo's grandma tells Iimura Mari about Sendo's childhood and how he was brought up.

Episode 71

23min - Ippo reads Mari's article. Ippo invites Nekota to his fight. Both Sendo and Ippo have their weigh in. Sendo and Ippo begin their rematch with Ippo getting a very early knockdown on Sendo.

Episode 72

23min - Sendo and Ippo's fight begins guns blazing with the two giving each other blow for blow. Ippo finds out that Sendo has the advantage of having a bigger frame.

Episode 73

23min - Ippo starts the third round by charging at Sendo but then hesitates which leads to Sendo beating Ippo all through the third round. The fourth round is a different story being more in the favor of Ippo.

Episode 74

23min - A flashback shows how Sendo joined his gym. Ippo gets knocked down two times but when he gets up the fifth round gets more brutal. The fifth round ends and after that, the sixth round begins and is just as brutal as the last round.

Episode 75

23min - The match between Ippo and Sendo finally reaches its conclusion after seven ruthless rounds.

Episode 76