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Hajime No Ippo 21 - 30 Review
Episode 3220th March 2024 • Southern Senpais • Nicholas Killian and Derek Johnson II
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We're back again with Ippo! Listen in as the Southern Senpais give their review of Hajime No Ippo! Episode 21 through 30.

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Howdy!

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It's the Southern Senpai Show.

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Where small town southerners explore big time Japanese entertainment.

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Anime, manga, and everything in between.

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Here's your hosts, Nicholas and DJ.

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What's going on y'all?

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Southern Senpais here.

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I'm Nicholas.

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I'm DJ, and we're two southern guys exploring Japanese culture together.

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What are we doing today, Nicholas?

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We are doing EPO episodes 22 through 30.

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Nope, we're doing episodes 21 to 30.

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21 to 30.

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Yep!

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So alright, so he's fighting Hayama.

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Hayama.

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Hayama.

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Hayama.

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To set the stage for this, Hayama!

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Hayama is a pretty boy.

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Hayama!

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Are you good?

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Yeah, I'm fine.

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Oh, sorry, go ahead.

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Hayama.

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Hayama!

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That's like what he's saying.

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No, go ahead.

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Hayama, are you good?

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Yeah, I'm fine, I didn't say anything.

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All right Ippo arrives to this match with Hayama, and he's a pretty boy,

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and he's got This shotgun punch.

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With all of these girl fans, and Ippo's friends are like Man, I

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might want to cheer for Hayama.

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They actually got a lot of They feel like they want to fight him

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because he gets all the girls.

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But then they're like, but there are a lot of girls here.

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So they feel like, oh, if we cheer with them, they'll like us.

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Then, Hayama is really confident Because he's never lost.

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Hayama's never lost before.

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Hayama's never lost before, and nobody's even presented a challenge to him.

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Yes.

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He's that cocky Yes a secret weapon called the shotgun which Ippo saw beforehand and

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then experienced for himself Firsthand because he's an in fighter and he went

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in and he got hit with the uppercut and it's okay cool So my plan is to counter

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When he tries to do that uppercut punch.

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So The training that Ippo has gone under these last few times

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Is his darting and dashing.

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What Ippo has been training so hard for, Is, whenever he comes for

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that infighter killer, The upper left, it's like a left uppercut.

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That's from the hip.

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He needs to be able to dodge that or he's done.

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Or he'll get hit with a shotgun.

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Or he's done and then and this guy also if that doesn't happen,

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he'll just throw a shotgun punch.

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Anyway What's your girl?

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The basically so the fight goes on and epo's getting his ass

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kicked Yeah per usual per usual.

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It seems to be like a trend here with the fights where it's Epo ghost in

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the fight has trained really well And then just gets his ass kicked

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in for the first couple of rounds.

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Yeah, like he forgets everything.

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He just forgets everything and then it's like most Emily, Oh my god, I love boxing.

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I remember now.

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I remember.

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It's okay, we've been doing this for two months and you forgot?

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Now I'm not a professional boxer, so maybe it's a little different.

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Yeah.

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It's probably all the brain damage.

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I'm just gonna go ahead and say it on on a limb here.

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It's probably what's happening and he's only 16 I don't know at this point.

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I think he's 17 now.

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Is he 17?

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Yeah, he's 17 now Because one thing I will say it's like they do so

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much with oh the movement of time Because months here months there.

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He's been boxing for what like a year now with this he gets his

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ass beat for a while, and then he starts to get the hang of it.

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Because Hayama's this is just another dude I gotta beat.

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I'll get my adoring fans, and it'll be These women are like, crazy, too.

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They're like, every time I, Ipoh hits him, they're like, No!

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No, you can't hit him, he's too attractive, we'll kill you!

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And it's dang, bro.

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It's a little much.

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It's crazy.

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Yeah, it's a little much.

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But that's almost that, that reminds me of You would think Michael

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Jackson's doing a half bowl, a half time super bowl out there.

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Calling girls fish.

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You're right.

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That, that reminds me of what's the big star right now for one of the singers

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was, had that chick on stage and it was like a seven year relationship.

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Oh, that went down the toilet?

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Yeah.

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I don't know.

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It was some rapper where this guy and this girl were together.

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They're at the front row and clearly the girl's a fan.

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She bum rushes to stage and then this guy like starts making

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out with her like behind stage because she bum rushed on stage.

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And the guy's just sitting there really?

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Did you just run up there?

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That was the end of a seven year relationship.

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And that just goes to show you, man.

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You like.

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You gotta buy your own tickets, alright?

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You gotta ask her like, It's You gotta ride in separate cars.

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And not only that You can't, you don't, you should never get her front

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row tickets to her favorite artist.

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Because if her favorite artist gives her that shot, especially

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if that's her one pass, dog.

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What are you doing?

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Same with same with, at the Super Bowl.

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Yeah bro, I would never.

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If my girl's favorite singer was Usher, can I have some backstage Usher tickets?

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No.

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No.

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No, but why?

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Okay.

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All right, because you're probably if you get the chance.

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Call me insecure if you want to but it's more like yeah, just say it just

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like This guy's Usher and I'm not And if Usher wants you're going to fuck him.

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Yeah, what's the craziest part?

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It's you know this guy this boxer guy This Hayama.

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He doesn't even interact with these ladies.

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He just like brushes them off.

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He like does not care at all.

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But that's why they like him so much.

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Oh, that's true.

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That's true.

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It's the you can't have me mentality.

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And so Ippo Beats him and they are not, his fangirls are not happy at all.

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They are very upset, but there's another one of those things where he's

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one of the So it's, what's interesting about him is that he doesn't have

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one of those super sad backstories like the previous fighters do.

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But what he does, like even when he was fighting Miata in like his own gym.

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That rebel guy.

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His sad backstory is that his dad was a really talented boxer but his dad

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gave up because his type of boxing.

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His dad's boxing style didn't make him a world champ.

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So his dad gave up on boxing and Miata's I'm a child prodigy.

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I want to show that my dad's fighting style was actually good.

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Everyone has these sad backstories.

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Him, he was just like, I'm just a really hard worker.

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He was in it like he's not like a lazy pretty boy.

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He like trains super hard when everyone's gone He's still in the gym hitting

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it just a down to earth guy who?

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Doesn't care about anyone else, but yeah, I mean he still loses so he loses And

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at first, he thinks that's it for him.

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He thinks that's it.

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One loss.

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One loss.

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This guy has twenty wins.

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One loss.

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It's all over.

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It's all over.

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The girls are Hayama is.

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And then then, just as quickly as he was devastated, he was like, Ah, I'm

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all the greatest fighters I've lost.

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And he was like, Yeah, man.

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Yeah, of course like name like if Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, and Sugar Ray

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Leonard Can all have L's on their record.

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I think you'll be fine.

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You'll be fine Floyd Mayweather Ray Jones jr.

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They all have L's on their record.

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Not a bunch of them, obviously.

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Not a bunch.

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But they got three Like Maximum, probably.

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Actually, I don't know, I don't know their records as well, but I

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don't remember either one of them having, any of the people I've

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named having more than seven losses.

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I don't remember that.

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No.

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No.

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But, but, then after that he fights Miata, Miata faces the

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Hitman style scary psychopath guy.

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Yeah, his name is Mashiba.

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Now here's something interesting about, Mashiba and Miyada.

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This episode 22, 23, and 24 was focusing on, it switches to where Ippo is not

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the main character, and it focuses on Miyada, as he prepares for the semi

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finals against Mishiba, and, Mashiba.

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And, Ippo, this whole time, he sees this girl from afar, who's like working at

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a bakery, who he's like really into.

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And then, after the match, because there was a lot of girls that liked Miata,

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and he was kinda popular, so then he's Oh, hey, there's no reason for you to

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be sad that Miata lost that other guy, he's a bum you know what I'm saying?

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He's like a really bad guy, and she goes, Don't talk shit about my brother.

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He's oh, I'm gonna fight you, brother.

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I'm fighting him next.

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Ha.

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It's a weird time to tell you this.

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Not only am I gonna talk shit, but I'm about to beat his ass.

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Ha.

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Yeah, it's The fight between Miyada and Mashiba, how would you describe it?

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I would describe it as Really great, but also at the end, Mashiba is just

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the dirty Yeah, I mean he Steps on his foot, Miata's foot and breaks it because

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Miata was going to beat him, right?

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And he sets on Miata's foot and breaks it and the great thing about Miata is

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because Ippo only won the last fight because he was like, oh I had to stick

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it out and win So that way because even Ippo and Miata made a promise that they

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face each other in the finals, right?

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Be true that, I promise, that's what's been driving Ippo, right?

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But now, me honest Ippo tries so hard, I don't want to let my friend down.

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It's really sad.

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Yeah.

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So he goes out there, unable to stand on one leg, and fights this guy.

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His dad tells him listen, you should just throw the match, okay?

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You have too many great years of boxing left.

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You have a great future ahead of you.

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You don't want to ruin it by getting too injured.

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You don't want to ruin it by injuring your foot too much.

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Just, listen, this is just a rookie championship.

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You have years of pro boxing ahead of you.

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Don't ruin that.

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But it's Pops, I got that dog in me.

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I got to.

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I promised Depot.

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I promised Depot.

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I got that dog in me, Pops.

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Sorry.

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I got the dog in me.

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So then what's also quite interesting is that even though So Mashable has like

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this like hitman style with the flicker jab that again is based off of like

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almost all special moves in here and all the special moves and boxing styles are

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based off of exclusively American boxing.

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So clearly there's a love for American boxing here.

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And but he, one thing I will say is that.

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He does get scared of Miata at the end.

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Miata fails to Cuz he's got that green in his eyes.

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Yeah, this is the thing that's been happening where they get a green look in

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their eyes, they're like, oh, that look!

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And it like, scares this evil guy, he's whoa!

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Cuz Miata almost wins!

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Miata almost wins, and then Mishima it's really plot armor how he doesn't win.

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And he gets he gets, obviously, Miata Because, you're thinking watching

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the anime, this is what I thought going into it, like alright, cool

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let's see the interesting way Miyada wins, and then we'll get to see Him

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and his best friend fight in the end.

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But he doesn't win.

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Yeah, and you're like, yo, it makes you hate this villain, it's such,

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it's actually pretty good writing.

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It's me and my friend, we're both distant rivals, so we're gonna fight

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each other in the championships.

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And then, boom, the villain takes out your best friend, and now you can't

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even fight your best friend, you can't meet your best friend at the top, right?

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You can't test your skill against the person who's motivating you.

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And Miata's dad didn't let him in the room after he lost.

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So he hasn't even Because Ippo runs to him and was like, Hey, he just lost

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hey, I'm trying to talk to him, right?

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And he's he doesn't want to talk to you.

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He has a message for you, though.

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Yeah.

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And he says, I'm sorry.

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That's all he wants to say, but you can't see him.

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That's bro.

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That's crazy.

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And then Ippo gets like really upset.

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This is the first time we actually see him angry in the whole anime where he

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gets like super pissed Like he like dents a vending machine with a punch.

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He's like I'm going to murder this guy In fact episode 27

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is named death match, right?

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So and then the thing is so they train for their match, right?

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And the thing is also even though this guy's evil this Mashiba He

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also has a super sad backstory.

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He's got the crazy.

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So anyway, the what happens is Ippo breaks his hand.

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They're we'll say the backstory first.

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Oh, okay.

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So the backstory for the Mashiba, for Mashiba, is really sad.

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So first of all, he's the older brother of the girl that Ippo's

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in love with, like his crush.

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His, their parents, they're dead, right?

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Yeah, so their parents died.

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And no one would help them, so So now Mashiba Has to box to take care of them.

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He doesn't really want to box?

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He doesn't really want to.

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But every job he goes for, he keeps getting laid off because he's so

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bitter and jaded about the fact that nobody wants to help them.

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It's also because he has a record.

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So he went to juvie when his parents were alive.

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And then he got out, but he served his time as a criminal, right?

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But people had that stereotype about him that he's a criminal because of

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his previous record that every job he gets, they fire him afterwards.

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Now, I don't know how they run things in Japan.

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I am not Japanese.

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But here in America, we usually run background checks

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first before we hire them.

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First, before, but and his sister is super nice.

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Yeah, she cooks for him, she does everything for him, and he's like people

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keep forgetting about us, they keep pushing us aside, and I keep getting

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fired because they view me as a criminal, and then they basically bully me at

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my work, they keep bullying me it's crazy, cause he's like the evil guy,

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but honestly, these people are bullying Have turned him into the evil guy.

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Cause This is who he has to be to survive.

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And he's 18.

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Raising his, younger sister who's 17.

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She's like the same age as Ippo.

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So He's like people keep treating me like a criminal and that turns

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him into a Into a bad guy, right?

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He doesn't really want to fight He just wants to make money for him and

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his sister's like you don't have to box She feels really bad cuz he's oh,

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you don't have to box I don't want you to get hurt on my aspect and I can

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totally see this as me being an older brother I totally relate to him when

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he's look, it doesn't matter if I get hurt I need to take care of you, right?

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And that means that I got a box and get beat up all the time and da

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Then, I gotta do what I gotta do, and I promise you, once I'm champion,

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this will never happen again.

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I wanna give you the money, and you a better life than what I had.

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And it's God, now I don't want the bad guy to lose it!

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But but then there's the saying, it's What's the point of gaining the

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whole world if you lose your soul?

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Because he's literally killing himself and turning into a completely

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different Emotionally killing himself.

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Yeah, he's completely emotionally killing himself and turning

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himself into a psychopath just to help support his sister.

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But again At the day, I can't say it's not relatable.

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No, it's super relatable.

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It's wild.

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So then it's Dang, and then plus Ippo finds all this out and he's Man, I

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don't even know why I should be And then it's again, this is the guy who like,

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Cheated to, and broke his friend's foot.

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So he's clearly evil.

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This is it's just great writing.

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You know what I mean?

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He's evil, but then all of them have this really great backstories So you're

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like I don't want either of them to lose and it's something that's way

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different than like in american shows and television and like boxing usually

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the other guy is just bad, you think about rocky You think about Drago, right?

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You think about Apollo and Clubber Lang, and you think about with really, this

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is how boxing goes oh, both of them are, one's the bad guy in, in film and

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television here in America, one's the bad guy and then the hero boxer has

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to defeat them, and this one there's almost no one's a bad guy, it's just

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about life, this is just two people, And someone gotta go down, which is crazy.

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Somebody's gotta go.

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So Ippo comes into this match, right?

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Because the training that he's been doing, also, before this match, his

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coach tells him, and he's oh, because before every fight he has to learn a new

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skill that's almost impossible to learn.

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That he does every time.

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That he does every time.

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Plot armor and anime logic.

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Okay?

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Suspension of disbelief.

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They get so much story in these 20 minutes.

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It's freaking crazy.

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But this is where it's different, right?

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The part where it's different is basically Ippos are like, Okay this is

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his hitman style and this is what he does.

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What new skill are we going to learn?

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And he's Yeah, you're screwed on this.

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And he's what?

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I'mma keep it real with you, chief.

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You can't beat this guy.

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What do you mean?

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He's my trainer.

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What are you talking about?

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He's listen.

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All we're going to do is we're going to train super hard on

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all of your best strengths.

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And we're just going to hope that You can pull it out and you know what's crazy is

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that while he's fighting him He does break his fist he breaks his fist and breaks in

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because he does the elbow block, right?

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So this guy he does which is not illegal right in boxing But it's

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dirty, but it's a little dirty because the guy is fighting dirty, right?

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Cuz again for his sister, so he's blocking his punches by throwing his

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sharp elbow into his fist right and then he's like breaks Ippo's fist and

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makes him bleed but Ippo's so But we also have to understand that Ippo got

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very severely handicapped that before that, the bell rung before he could hit.

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The what's his name?

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Mashiba.

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Before he could hit Mashiba in his stomach.

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And get the dub.

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And get the win.

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That completely And they rang the bell.

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And Mashiba now knows his whole strategy.

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And, what's crazy about this is that the bell is often used as right

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as soon as someone's gonna win, that's when the bell always rings.

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It's got just good writing.

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And then especially, and then ironically, it ends up working out

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in his favor because Then, Mashiba, even though he's throwing his elbow

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to block those punches, he can't use his, he can't lift up his arm anymore.

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Cause it destroys his elbow.

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Cause even those punches are so hard.

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But what's crazy is that, Mashiba is such a G, that he's I'm gonna

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just fight you with one hand.

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He loses, cause he's fighting with one hand.

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This man got him clinching.

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The thing is also, His coach tells him the same thing that Miata's dad tells him.

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Cuz, he sits there, because He's dude, you have too many good ears.

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He's broken his hand, right?

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And, so the coach is like, sitting in the corner, he's like, How's your hand doing?

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Listen, Ippo, you're bleeding.

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I can see you bleeding through your glove.

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And he's I'm fine.

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He's no, I can see the blood.

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Coming down your wrist.

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It's smushed.

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You should really throw this match.

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This is just the rookie tournament match.

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You've got way too many really great pro years ahead of you.

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So go ahead and let's just call this match.

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And it'll be fine.

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And he's No, he's also No, I'm built different.

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But also, He's also, if you don't throw this match, you might

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have to retire after this match.

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Because you can't use your hand anymore.

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Because you can't use your hand anymore.

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That's even more and he's I don't care.

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I got that dog.

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I got that dog in me!

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And they're like, I can't believe you.

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Dude, you're hurting yourself.

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Can't stop coach.

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Why?

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Because I got that dog in me!

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The other guys, the the other Asian dude, he's this is crazy, and he's nope, he's

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gonna do it, so we might as well try it.

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Oh yeah, the general man, the other corner man is you should be throwing this match,

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you're throwing the towel, he's look.

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I'm too experienced with boxers.

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Boxers are so thick headed there's nothing I can do at this point.

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It's that's not true.

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Yes, you can.

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Throw her in the towel.

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Yes, you can stop this person.

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Yeah, but then the boss, my boxer's gonna hate me, and he's not gonna me.

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But he'll be alive.

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And so he basically is like, all right, listen, do this.

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He said, go in, But keep hittin him with those body shots.

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With your left hand.

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With your left hand.

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And only use your right hand like one more time.

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To knock him out.

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Because he is hittin this dude with some really solid, Punches.

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Power smashing body shots.

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And it's like Mishiba just just eats him.

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One of the, like you were talkin about, he keeps he says Mishiba thinks that, Now

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that he's punched and broken his hand.

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He's oh, he's gonna use a different strategy.

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Ipo's nah, man I'm gonna keep doing this.

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And Roshifant, the evil guy, is like This man, this dude's insane.

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This man's crazy.

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This nigga's serious, bro.

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What do you mean you're gonna keep doing it?

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So even after the fight So he, so Ippo wins and becomes like the

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Eastern Japan Rookie Champion, right?

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And then so as soon as he becomes the Eastern Rookie Japan Champion,

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the very next episode this guy named, his name is Sendoh, Takashi

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Sendoh, but they call him Rocky.

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And not for, also though we have to say that as soon as Ippo wins

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the fight, because what ends up happening is he breaks his arm, right?

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He can't move his elbow anymore, and Ippo finally gets the knockout, and

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Ippo's please don't get off the ground.

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Please.

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He gets counted a ten count.

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And he's still coming after Ippo, after the match!

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Yeah, Majima tries to fight him afterwards.

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He's bro, it's over.

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Go ahead, take that L, dog.

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Go ahead, hold that.

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Just go ahead.

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So then, the, he's oh So he becomes the Eastern champ.

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The Western champ, his nickname is Rocky, but his name is Takashi

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Sendoh, is oh yeah, we should fight.

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And the upcoming a tournament so we can fight each other and he's yeah,

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sorry No, I can't do that because my hand is broken and it'll take like

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literally Like my hand just won't heal in time for us for you and me to have

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a fight before the next tournament.

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So You know the western guy gets really ticked off.

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So what do they hire a super?

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They hire some nurse, who's hot, who's super hot nurse, who was it?

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He's okay, we'll pretend you're just judo champion, who can possibly

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help you heal up your hand faster.

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So he goes over, and it's just this super hot nurse.

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What and he was like very sexual with him for some reason and she's like people

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keep staring at his chair at her chest Yeah, and she's you know what we could

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do is I could just numb up your hand Haha, so you don't feel the pain but

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afterwards it's gonna it'll fucking hurt.

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It'll hurt so bad You're like even to the and then Takamura was like, I

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haven't even done much talk so Actually, the nurse follows them to one of their

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training Oh yeah, by the way, we forgot to say, Takamura also won a belt himself.

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Yes, Takamura and like Very easily, I might add.

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Yeah, he won a well He was, he he got hit down a couple of times, but then Ippo was

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like, Hey, I believe in you, Takamura.

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You're the greatest.

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And Takamura was like, Bro, I can't lose in front of the squad?

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And then that's how he wins beats this guy.

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He's Bro, my motivation is to look good in front of the squad and the hoes.

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That's my motivation.

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But she, so Whenever he goes to see the doctor, right?

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Because what ends up happening is Ippo Accepts it's listen, I can't box for two

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months like even three months, right?

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It's three months.

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Yeah, he can't box for three months because he has his whole fist has to heal

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but the actual fight Is in two months.

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It's like in two and a half, two months because his former bullies come up to him

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and are like, Hey, yeah, congratulations.

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You're the champion.

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And he's, yeah, they're all his friends now for some reason.

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And he is you guys have been watching my fights.

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He's we've been watching every single one of 'em.

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We've been cheering you on, man.

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He's you guys have been beat my ass for 10 years, 15 years, it's

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cringe, but all right, you're cool, I guess I have some fans, whatever.

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And he's like, when's your next, you're gonna, you're gonna really kill it

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in the All Japan tournament, right?

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And he's not really, I broke my hand.

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And they're like, oh, man, you gotta fight.

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And I also bring him to their other bully friends, the other gangster friends,

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and the other gangster friends are like, oh, you're a hero, and he's seriously?

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You guys all hated me before.

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But then what he ends up doing is he ends up helping his mom out

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with her fishing business, right?

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Because he's just doing basically road work.

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And then, what he ends up doing is asking his mom, because the Sindoh guy comes

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to him and is dude, we got to fight.

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You a bitch, right?

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You a bitch?

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And he's bro.

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This guy is fucking crazy.

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Why do you care about fighting so much?

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And he's I just got that dog in me.

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Dude, so he jumps on a flight.

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Yeah, and flies all the way over to Ippo just to tell him that he has to fight.

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Because he's sitting there bugging everybody.

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And the thing with Sendoh is Insert sad backstory, Sendo's parents are dead, he

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lives with his grandmother, and he gets into fights to prove how strong he can be,

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so that way he's I have to be strongest so I can be the strongest for my grandma.

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And so then, because he's the all western hero, right?

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He's like a hometown hero over there, and he's no longer a gangster like

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person, he's like a hometown hero, and the and these little kids are

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like, Hey, you should like, buy us a PlayStation remember you said you'd

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buy it for us when you became champion?

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When you became Western champion, and he's Oh, I'll do it when I win the All

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Japan champion and they're like he's like they're like elementary school

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kids They're like fascinated with him cuz he's like the hometown hero and

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they right, you know So everyone but he's I know I don't want to let my

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hometown down But I just love to fight!

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People think I'm fighting to save the day!

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But really, I just like to fight!

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So he hands the kids, he's I got something better than the video

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game I said I was gonna get you all.

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Here's some money.

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Here's some tickets.

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Oh, tickets to the fight.

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To see me fight these people.

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And even He so Ippo, when he comes and bugs everybody in the gym,

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Ippo then comes in and he's Ah!

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It means Sendoh.

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Sendoh.

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When Sendoh comes to bug everyone in the gym, and, but then Ippo

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comes in and Sendoh's There you are!

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And he's We gotta fight right now!

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We gotta fight!

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And he was like, Who the fuck are you, man?

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Really?

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What are you doing?

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I don't know who you are.

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Are you kidding me?

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You don't know who I am?

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I'm the Western Champion!

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You're the Eastern Champion?

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I'm the Western Champion.

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We got to settle this.

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And the coach is like I'm not gonna lie, Sendo's one of my favorite characters.

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And the coach is Hey why don't you go do some road work since You

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can't your fist is all messed up and Sendoh's that's a great idea.

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Let's go do some road work.

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We gotta do it together, hurry.

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And he's can you keep up with me?

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And Ippo's what are you doing here, man?

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What is your issue?

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But then because Sendoh wants to fight so bad, Ippo's you know what?

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I actually really want to beat this guy's ass.

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So then that's when, that's why he goes and begs his coach like, Okay,

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we gotta find someone to help me out with this so I can beat up this guy.

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Yeah, his mom, he goes to his mom and he's Listen, is there

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anybody that we work with?

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Don't you have a doctor or something that you work with?

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Can you please set me up an appointment?

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And then that's what happens.

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And then the doctor comes.

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That's the judo champion.

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Yeah, she comes out of nowhere.

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I don't know how she knows where they're training.

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I think, no, not the, his coach calls her.

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Oh, yes.

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And then, so they're doing the crab walks.

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They're doing crab walks to strengthen.

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She then puts him on this regiment to strengthen his hand.

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His shoulder.

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And his, because he's look, you've been throwing all these punches so hard, but

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your shoulder muscles are really weak.

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You're putting too much force into just your hand and forearm, and

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that's why you broke your hand.

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You punched so hard.

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That you broke your hand, but not That your body can't handle

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how tremendous your power is.

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I'm just like, what?

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That's, what?

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That's not, but that's So then you need to build up your shoulder Like, you

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can't even throw it that hard if your shoulder muscle's that messed up, but,

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that's the thing like in baseball, right?

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You cannot, I think it's like you can't throw faster than like 108 miles

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an hour or 110 miles an hour because the law of physics literally won't

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allow your arm to throw that fast.

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I have heard that before, but the amount of times that scientists

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have said, The laws of physics say, and then humans do it anyway.

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That was like the that was like the thing with back in The four minute mile?

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Yeah.

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They said it was physically against the laws of physics for

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anyone to run a four minute mile.

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Then some guy does it back in like the early 1900s, and since

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then tons of people do it.

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It's very common to, it's hard to do, but it's still people

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in my high school did that.

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I think that My, my low, my lowest time is is for a mile.

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When I was in high school and running like that I was a part of the track

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team it was like 425 so I'm and I'm not a professional track athlete.

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So if mine was 425 Mine was 920 You shouldn't admit that doubt that whoof this

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you take off those Rockley weights, right?

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But yeah, so that's what kind of happened between 21 through 30.

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We are rolling through this anime right now.

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Yeah, we are definitely rolling through this anime and but anyway, so what ends

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up happening though at the end though is we find out that he is going to try

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and fight and then that's what Sendoh is oh my god, I'm gonna have to fight.

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And yeah, upcoming, and then I hear the next episode is filler, but we'll

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find out, we'll find out next time.

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So guys, I'm DJ.

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I'm Nicholas.

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And we'll see you next time.

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See ya.

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This has been Southern Senpais on Comic Con Radio.

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