Ippo comes to the sparring match against Ricardo Martinez as focused as if it were a real match, and he is determined to land at least one hit on the World champion. However, Martinez's lightning-fast lefts and instant reflexes are like nothing Ippo's ever seen. Will Ippo's Dempsey Roll work on the strongest man in the world?
Ratings
3.5
Cast
Tomokazu Seki
Ichiro Miyata (voice)
Kohei Kiyasu
Ippo Makunouchi (voice)
Rikiya Koyama
Mamoru Takamura (voice)
Wataru Takagi
Masaru Aoki (voice)
Keiji Fujiwara
Tatsuya Kimura (voice)
Sanae Kobayashi
Kumi Mashiba (voice)
Kenji Utsumi
Genji Kamogawa (voice)
Toshihiko Nakajima
Haruhiko Yagi (voice)
Masaya Onosaka
Takeshi Sendo (voice)
Akemi Okamura
Reiko Mikami (voice)
Emi Shinohara
Mari Iimura (voice)
Hiroyuki Yoshino
Akira Shigeta (voice)
Kiyoyuki Yanada
Takuma Saeki (voice)
Koji Tsujitani
Ryuichi Hayami (voice)
Masahiko Tanaka
Ryo Mashiba (voice)
Masaki Aizawa
Date Eiji (voice)
Nobutoshi Canna
Yusuke Oda (voice)
Unsho Ishizuka
Miyata's father (voice)
Yorie Terauchi
Hiroko Makunōchi (voice)
Toshiyuki Morikawa
Alexander Vorg Zangief (voice)
Kenichi Ono
Minoru Fujii (voice)
Akio Otsuka
Bryan Hawk (voice)
Crew