Fighting Spirit
"The moment you back down is the moment you lose!"
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...
Season 1 Episodes
E1
Ippo is a high school student who works full time at his mother's fishing though. Because of this, he gets bullied on by…
E2
Ippo succeeds in catching 10 falling leaves, and is granted his first sparring session.
E3
Ippo loses his first sparring session, but shows enough potential to be accepted into the gym.
E4
Ippo practices shadow boxing.
E5
Ippo trains for a rematch.
E6
Ippo and Miyata face off in a rematch.
E7
Ippo and Miyata are in the last round of the rematch
E8
Ippo trains with Takamura and discovers the hardship of pro boxing.
E9
Ippo takes the License Test and meets Mashiba.
E10
Ippo and his opponent Yusuke train for Ippo's debut match.
E11
Ippo defeats Yusuke via K.O.
E12
Ippo fights and wins his second match via K.O.,After the fight he was befriended by Umezawa, his former bully.
E13
Ippo and his opponent Jason prepare for the first match of the Rookie King Tournament.
E14
Start of Ippo vs Jason match, both men exchange powerful punches but neither goes down.
E15
Ippo defeats Jason via K.O. after a tough match.
E16
Ippo watches the fight videos of Kobashi and Hayami, his future opponents.
E17
Ippo joins Takamura, Kimura, and Aoki in a training camp near the beach.
E18
Start of Ippo vs Kobashi match, Ippo is loosing by points because of Kobashi's strategy.
E19
Kobashi abandoned his strategy and loses the match to Ippo via K.O.
E20
Takamura wins the Japanese Middleweight Championship belt, Ippo trains with Aoki to counter Hayami's Shotgun punch.
E21
Start of Ippo vs Hayami fight, Hayami takes the advantage during the early rounds.
E22
Ippo defeats Hayami via K.O. Ippo's training with Aoki and Kimura's help Ippo win the match.
E23
Ippos day off. Miyata and Mashiba face off.
E24
Miyata and Mashiba continues to fight. Ippo is angred by the outcome.
E25
Ippo trains for Mashiba flicker jabs.
E26
Ippo VS Mashiba Round 1
E27
Ippo VS Mashiba continues.
E28
Ippo defeats Mashiba for Rookie King of Eastren Japan.
E29
Sendo goes to Japan to meet Ippo and make him go to All Japan and gets a chance to spar with Takamura.
E30
Ippo learns how to heal his right fist and gets ready for the All Japan but something happens his powerful right punches…
E31
Episode 31 is a retrospective on the hope that managed Ippo championship. It is made in the form of a newspaper article …
E32
After two straight missed Ippo, the sparring match is abandoned. Meanwhile, Sendo, the great favorites of the match, con…
E33
Makunouchi takes the smash improved Sendo, and crashed into the ropes, but do not fall! Alas, his legs tremble, Sendo an…
E34
Sendo Makunouchi and continues to cast powerful blows to turn, but neither weakens, they are very determined !! But afte…
E35
It is the day of graduation, Ippo has also obtained his. At his high school, he became The Star, Idol of all students. T…
E36
Ippo finally meets the champion in its class, Eiji Date. The latter is there to comment on the evening's matches as a gu…
E37
Ippo gets to get up, the game resumes. Date returned, and hardly the match resumed, Ippo is again stuck in the ropes. Da…
E38
Okita also control the blow that had allowed Date set down Ippo 2 times !! Ippo, panicked, took distance, and Okita fein…
E39
In Thailand, Miyata a draw against a second-class boxer. Decision of the arbitrator although debatable, the Japanese are…
E40
The boxing stadium tremble with excitement, the crowd goes wild and wants to see only one thing, the victory of Jimmy Si…
E41
At sunset, While Ippo's mother prepares the material for fishing, it can hardly his training, sorry for being late to he…
E42
Ippo thinks of quitting boxing.
E43
Ippo gets ready for his match against Saeki the Speed Star.
E44
Ippo fights Saeki.
E45
Gero-michi leaves and has to move away.
E46
Aoki, Kimura & Ippo train hard for their next match of the tournament class A. They linked together jogging, sparring an…
E47
The tactics of the coach against Vorg is based on a succession of sudden melee after which the least enduring two boxers…
E48
The match between Volg and Ippo begins.
E49
Volg and Ippo continue to duke it out in a hard-fought and long battle.
E50
The end of the Volg match.
E51
Group date, literally. Ippo walks Mashiba's Kumi home.
E52
Recap episode.
E53
Background episode for Date Eiji.
E54
"The champions have special powers! "That is what was said to Takamura Ippo before his defense of the title match. But a…
E55
The episode begins the day before the match for the title of Ippo, during training with mittens. But the latter is short…
E56
During the break, Ippo is concerned, he has not had the sensation he usually hit when Date but his coach made him regain…
E57
"What should I do?". This is the question that arises while Ippo Date street shots, then he remembers that he told Takam…
E58
While the coach Okita Date and congratulated the champion, Ippo wishes to thank for this game then goes on a stretcher t…
E59
The match between Sendou Takeshi and Volg Zangief starts.
E60
Sendou wins the match versus Volg.
E61
Miyata Ichirou defeats Li Chou Bil.
E62
Coach returns from the hospital, and Makunochi "hits without being hit".
E63
The past of Aoki and Kimura is shown.
E64
Second part of Aoki's and Kimura's past.
E65
The group go to training camp in the mountains.
E66
Takamura fights a bear.
E67
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 …
E68
Finally the day of the games of our boxers happens, Kimura very fit explodes his opponent, when Aoki to beat his opponen…
E69
Ippo and coach arriving in the city where the featherweight champion, Takeshi Sendo must defend his title against Shiget…
E70
We find our hero in him, in his room, he can not help thinking about the game he has just seen in Osaka, acceleration Se…
E71
While the title match approach Ippo trains again and again. As it enters its footing, a crowd gathered in front of the r…
E72
What wonder what Dempsey Roll early in the 1st round, Ippo sends his best and most powerful blow while Sendo had not yet…
E73
Ippo happens somehow to join his corner. This end of the second round was very rude for the challenger, the 3rd round st…
E74
Takamura has noticed, Ippo has had enough it is burnt and courage in this game is like a time bomb because if Sendo quit…
E75
Ippo and Sendo's match concludes.
Cast