Fighting Spirit: New Challenger

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Fighting Spirit: New ChallengerFeatherweight Champion Ippo Makunouchi has defended his title, and Ichirou Miyata is aiming for his own belt in the Oriental Pacific Boxing Federation.
S1, EP7 "The Destructive Force of 1cm"Ippo and Miyata are in the last round.
S1, EP8 "Promise to Meet Again"Ippo trains with Takamura and discovers the hardship of pro boxing.
S1, EP9 "C Class License"Ippo takes the license test and meets Mashiba.
S1, EP10 "Debut Match!"Ippo and his opponent Yusuke train for Ippo's debut match.
S1, EP11 "Obsession for Victory"Ippo fights Yusuke.
S1, EP12 "Becoming a Bully's Buddy"After a fight, Ippo makes a new friend.
S1, EP13 "The Eastern Japan Rookie Championship Tournament Begins"Ippo and his opponent Jason prepare for the first match of the Rookie King Tournament.
S1, EP14 "Powerful Arms! Hooks vs. Uppercut!"Ippo vs. Jason.
S1, EP15 "Test of Endurance"A tough match ends.
S1, EP18 "Clinch"The start of the Ippo vs. Kobashi match.
S1, EP20 "Threat of Shotgun"Ippo trains with Aoki to counter Hayami's Shotgun punch.
S1, EP21 "The Way to Capture a Prodigy"The Ippo vs. Hayami fight begins.
S1, EP22 "Forward! Forward!!"Ippo hopes his training with Aoki and Kimura will help him win the match.
S1, EP23 "Another Semi-Final"Miyata and Mashiba face off.
S1, EP24 "To the Place We Promised..."Miyata and Mashiba continue to fight.
S1, EP25 "Every Emotion"Ippo trains for Mashiba's flicker jabs.
S1, EP26 "Battle for Distance"Ippo vs. Mashiba Round One.
S1, EP27 "Death Match"Ippo vs. Mashiba continues.
S1, EP28 "Victory or Defeat"Ippo could be the Rookie King of Eastern Japan.
S1, EP29 "Rocky of Naniwa"Sendo goes to Japan to meet with Ippo.
S1, EP30 "To Enemy Ground"Ippo gets ready for All Japan.
S1, EP31 "Traces of Intense Battles"A recap of the boxing matches that have taken place.
S1, EP33 "Smash Force"Ippo tries a different fighting stance, making his match with Sendo more intense.
S1, EP34 "The Rookie King"Ippo and Sendo keep fighting, the crowd starts cheering Sendo on and the match reaches its climax.
S1, EP35 "The Counting Journey"Ippo graduates and takes photos with people from his school; new people join the gym and are put to the test by running with Takemura, Ippo, Aoki and Kimura.
S1, EP36 "The Champ and I"Kimura, Aoki, and Takemura each fight their match; Ippo spars with the featherweight champion, Date.
S1, EP37 "A Thing to Strive For"Dante uses his secret weapon on Ippo, which makes Okita challenge Ippo to a real match.
S1, EP38 "Two Rookies of the Year"Okita unpredictable moves on Ippo; Okita uses a fighting style like Dante and a corkscrew.
S1, EP39 "Challenge in a Foreign Land"Miyata is in Thailand, and he gets a tough opponent with a great record, Jimmy Sisfa.
S1, EP40 "A Counter to Surpass All Counters"Miyata's fight with Jimmy Sisfa begins; Miyata starts off bad and tries a counter punch.
S1, EP41 "Barf-michi's Big Fight"Aoki, Kimura and Ippo all try going to A-class; Yamada has his first fight; all the guys want to go to training camp.
S1, EP42 "Sharing a Dream"Ippo's mother collapses from overworking, so Ippo has to look after the family business; Ippo thinks about quitting boxing so that his mother doesn't overwork herself again.
S1, EP43 "The Speed Star"Ippo prepares for his match against Saeki, the speed star, by trying to improve his movements and become faster.
S1, EP44 "Blind Spot in the Ring"Ippo's match with Saeki begins, but Saeki is so fast that Ippo can't land a hit on him; Ippo Is left with a blind spot after getting his eye swollen, making it even harder to track Saeki.
S1, EP45 "The White Fangs of the Wolf"The guys finish their matches and go to karaoke; Takemura lets everyone know Yamada is leaving, so they give him a send-off.
S1, EP46 "Be the Gazelle"Ippo is a high school student that gets bullied on by the kids at his school; when a professional boxer introduces Ippo to the world of boxing, his life changes.
S1, EP47 "The Fighting Spirit Within"Ippo meets Volg after Volg gets lost; Volg tells Ippo that he boxes so that he can get money for his mother.
S1, EP48 "The Red Wolf"The match with Ippo and Volg begins and the two boxers seem to get the edge over one another quite a bit.
S1, EP49 "The Courage to Believe"The fight between Ippo and Volg carries on; Ippo takes a lot of hits and gets knocked down a couple times.
S1, EP50 "Something to Convey"After many rounds, Ippo and Volg are both exhausted; after the match, Volg visits Ippo in the hospital and meets Ippo's mother.
S1, EP51 "The Group Date"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.
S1, EP52 "The Challenger"Date recaps of some of Ippo's fights.
S1, EP53 "So That I Can Be Myself"Date's past is revealed; Takemura gets ready for his match.
S1, EP54 "Fists of the Champ"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.
S1, EP55 "The Japan Featherweight Title Match"Ippo's title match with Date begins; Date is surprised by how much better Ippo is since the last time he sparred with him.
S1, EP56 "The Power that Stands in the Way"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.
S1, EP57 "Conclusion"Both Ippo and Date are beaten up badly; the match reaches the climax.
S1, EP58 "Heartbroken"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.
S1, EP59 "A Determined Gaze"Ippo watches his match with Date; Ippo goes to watch the title match with Volg and Sendo, and he runs into Miyata and spectates the match with him.
S1, EP60 "Rival"Volg and Sendo face off, with the crowd cheering for Sendo, and the match comes down to a decision by the judges.
S1, EP61 "Comeback Anxiety"Aoki, Kimura and Ippo make their comeback match, with Ippo being the main event; Kamogawa trains Ippo to have a better defense, but he overworks himself and collapses, ending up in a hospital.
S1, EP62 "Revival"Ippo is a high school student that gets bullied on by the kids at his school; when a professional boxer introduces Ippo to the world of boxing, his life changes.
S1, EP63 "Youth of Fire"Aoki, Takemura and Ippo visit Kimura because he has a high fever; Aoki's and Kimura's life as delinquents is shown.
S1, EP64 "Hot Rod Era"A look at Aoki and Kimura's debut matches and how they became boxers and joined the Kamogawa gym.
S1, EP65 "The Summer of the Kamogawa Corps"Sendo comfortably beats Saeki, the speed star; Sendo wants a fight with Ippo; all the guys from the gym go to training camp in the mountains and meet Kamogawa's friend.
S1, EP66 "Mr. Takamura's Tears"The guys learn that killer intent can seem like a punch; Kamogawa and Nekota's history with one another is told; Takamura battles a bear; everyone finishes training camp.
S1, EP6 "The Opening Bell of the Rematch"Ippo and Miyata face off in a rematch.
S1, EP3 "Tears of Joy"Ippo shows enough potential to be accepted into the gym.
S1, EP2 "Fruits of Labor"Ippo is granted his first sparring session.
S1, EP1 "The First Step"Ippo is a high school student that gets bullied on by the kids at his school; when a professional boxer introduces Ippo to the world of boxing, his life changes.
Featherweight Champion Ippo Makunouchi has defended his title, and Ichirou Miyata is aiming for his own belt in the Oriental Pacific Boxing Federation.
Original Air Date: Jan 7, 2009
Genres: DramaTV Series
Rating: A12
Playback: HD
1 seasons available on demand (4 episodes)
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