Fighting Spirit
Fighting Spirit

Fighting Spirit

2000 3 Seasons 8.7 Ended

Makunouchi Ippo is an ordinary high school student in Japan. Since he spends most of his time away from school helping his mother run the family business, he doesn't get to enjoy his younger years like most teenagers. Always a target for bullying at school (the family fishing business grants him a distinct odor), Ippo's life is one of hardship. One of these after-school bullying sessions turns Ippo's life around for the better, as he is saved by a boxer named Takamura. He decides to follow in Takamura's footsteps and train to become a boxer, giving his life direction and purpose. Ippo's path to perfecting his pugilistic prowess is just beginning...

Episodes

Ippo is a high school student who works full time at his mother's fishing though. Because of this, he gets bullied on by the kids at his school. That'...

Ippo succeeds in catching 10 falling leaves, and is granted his first sparring session.

Ippo loses his first sparring session, but shows enough potential to be accepted into the gym.

Ippo practices shadow boxing.

Ippo trains for a rematch.

Ippo and Miyata face off in a rematch.

Ippo and Miyata are in the last round of the rematch

Ippo trains with Takamura and discovers the hardship of pro boxing.

Ippo takes the License Test and meets Mashiba.

Ippo and his opponent Yusuke train for Ippo's debut match.

Ippo defeats Yusuke via K.O.

Ippo fights and wins his second match via K.O.,After the fight he was befriended by Umezawa, his former bully.

Ippo and his opponent Jason prepare for the first match of the Rookie King Tournament.

Start of Ippo vs Jason match, both men exchange powerful punches but neither goes down.

Ippo defeats Jason via K.O. after a tough match.

Ippo watches the fight videos of Kobashi and Hayami, his future opponents.

Ippo joins Takamura, Kimura, and Aoki in a training camp near the beach.

Start of Ippo vs Kobashi match, Ippo is loosing by points because of Kobashi's strategy.

Kobashi abandoned his strategy and loses the match to Ippo via K.O.

Takamura wins the Japanese Middleweight Championship belt, Ippo trains with Aoki to counter Hayami's Shotgun punch.

Start of Ippo vs Hayami fight, Hayami takes the advantage during the early rounds.

Ippo defeats Hayami via K.O. Ippo's training with Aoki and Kimura's help Ippo win the match.

Ippos day off. Miyata and Mashiba face off.

Miyata and Mashiba continues to fight. Ippo is angred by the outcome.

Ippo trains for Mashiba flicker jabs.

Ippo VS Mashiba Round 1

Ippo VS Mashiba continues.

Ippo defeats Mashiba for Rookie King of Eastren Japan.

Sendo goes to Japan to meet Ippo and make him go to All Japan and gets a chance to spar with Takamura.

Ippo learns how to heal his right fist and gets ready for the All Japan but something happens his powerful right punches!

Episode 31 is a retrospective on the hope that managed Ippo championship. It is made in the form of a newspaper article commented and written Fuuji, j...

After two straight missed Ippo, the sparring match is abandoned. Meanwhile, Sendo, the great favorites of the match, continues to train. Just before t...

Makunouchi takes the smash improved Sendo, and crashed into the ropes, but do not fall! Alas, his legs tremble, Sendo and the opportunity to boost its...

Sendo Makunouchi and continues to cast powerful blows to turn, but neither weakens, they are very determined !! But after a few moments, Sendo eventua...

It is the day of graduation, Ippo has also obtained his. At his high school, he became The Star, Idol of all students. This awareness leads logically...

Ippo finally meets the champion in its class, Eiji Date. The latter is there to comment on the evening's matches as a guest. It turns out that date an...

Ippo gets to get up, the game resumes. Date returned, and hardly the match resumed, Ippo is again stuck in the ropes. Date then returns its corkscrew,...

Okita also control the blow that had allowed Date set down Ippo 2 times !! Ippo, panicked, took distance, and Okita feints put the uncomfortable, it c...

In Thailand, Miyata a draw against a second-class boxer. Decision of the arbitrator although debatable, the Japanese are not welcome there, and Miyata...

The boxing stadium tremble with excitement, the crowd goes wild and wants to see only one thing, the victory of Jimmy Sisfer, and the defeat of Ichiro...

At sunset, While Ippo's mother prepares the material for fishing, it can hardly his training, sorry for being late to help his mother. The next day at...

Ippo thinks of quitting boxing.

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

Gero-michi leaves and has to move away.

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...

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 breat...

The match between Volg and Ippo begins.

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

The end of the Volg match.

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

Background episode for Date Eiji.

"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 pas...

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. Whi...

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 beginn...

"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...

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 ....

The match between Sendou Takeshi and Volg Zangief starts.

Sendou wins the match versus Volg.

Miyata Ichirou defeats Li Chou Bil.

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

The past of Aoki and Kimura is shown.

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

The group go to training camp in the 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 an...

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 m...

Ippo and coach arriving in the city where the featherweight champion, Takeshi Sendo must defend his title against Shigeta Akira, 4th category. At the...

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...

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 t...

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...

Ippo happens somehow to join his corner. This end of the second round was very rude for the challenger, the 3rd round starts in exactly the same way a...

Takamura has noticed, Ippo has had enough it is burnt and courage in this game is like a time bomb because if Sendo quite put down Ippo, it will never...

Ippo and Sendo's match concludes.

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