Fighting Spirit - The First Step
Run Time: 24 mins
Air Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000
Average Rating: ⭐ 8.633 (1146 votes)
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The First Step
Season 1 - Episode 1
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 sch...
Fruits of Labor
Season 1 - Episode 2
Ippo succeeds in catching 10 falling leaves, and is granted his first sparring session.
Tears of Joy
Season 1 - Episode 3
Ippo loses his first sparring session, but shows enough potential to be accepted into the gym.
Shadow Boxing
Season 1 - Episode 4
Ippo practices shadow boxing.
3 Months to Counter
Season 1 - Episode 5
Ippo trains for a rematch.
The Opening Bell of the Rematch
Season 1 - Episode 6
Ippo and Miyata face off in a rematch.
The Destructive Force Of One CM
Season 1 - Episode 7
Ippo and Miyata are in the last round of the rematch
Promise to Meet Again
Season 1 - Episode 8
Ippo trains with Takamura and discovers the hardship of pro boxing.
C Class License
Season 1 - Episode 9
Ippo takes the License Test and meets Mashiba.
Debut Match!
Season 1 - Episode 10
Ippo and his opponent Yusuke train for Ippo's debut match.
Obsession for Victory
Season 1 - Episode 11
Ippo defeats Yusuke via K.O.
Becoming a Bully's Buddy
Season 1 - Episode 12
Ippo fights and wins his second match via K.O.,After the fight he was befriended by Umezawa, his former bully.
The Eastern Japan Rookie Championship Tournament Begins
Season 1 - Episode 13
Ippo and his opponent Jason prepare for the first match of the Rookie King Tournament.
Powerful Arms! Hooks vs. Uppercut!
Season 1 - Episode 14
Start of Ippo vs Jason match, both men exchange powerful punches but neither goes down.
Test of Endurance
Season 1 - Episode 15
Ippo defeats Jason via K.O. after a tough match.
Premonition of a Hard Battle
Season 1 - Episode 16
Ippo watches the fight videos of Kobashi and Hayami, his future opponents.
Ippo on the Beach
Season 1 - Episode 17
Ippo joins Takamura, Kimura, and Aoki in a training camp near the beach.
Clinch
Season 1 - Episode 18
Start of Ippo vs Kobashi match, Ippo is loosing by points because of Kobashi's strategy.
K.O. Dream
Season 1 - Episode 19
Kobashi abandoned his strategy and loses the match to Ippo via K.O.
Threat of Shotgun
Season 1 - Episode 20
Takamura wins the Japanese Middleweight Championship belt, Ippo trains with Aoki to counter Hayami's Shotgun punch.
The Way to Capture a Prodigy
Season 1 - Episode 21
Start of Ippo vs Hayami fight, Hayami takes the advantage during the early rounds.
Forward! Forward!!
Season 1 - Episode 22
Ippo defeats Hayami via K.O. Ippo's training with Aoki and Kimura's help Ippo win the match.
Another Semi-Final
Season 1 - Episode 23
Ippos day off. Miyata and Mashiba face off.
To the Place We Promised...
Season 1 - Episode 24
Miyata and Mashiba continues to fight. Ippo is angred by the outcome.
Every Emotion
Season 1 - Episode 25
Ippo trains for Mashiba flicker jabs.
Battle for Distance
Season 1 - Episode 26
Ippo VS Mashiba Round 1
Death Match
Season 1 - Episode 27
Ippo VS Mashiba continues.
Victory or Defeat
Season 1 - Episode 28
Ippo defeats Mashiba for Rookie King of Eastren Japan.
Rocky of Naniwa
Season 1 - Episode 29
Sendo goes to Japan to meet Ippo and make him go to All Japan and gets a chance to spar with Takamura.
To Enemy Ground
Season 1 - Episode 30
Ippo learns how to heal his right fist and gets ready for the All Japan but something happens his powerful right punches!
Traces of Intense Battles
Season 1 - Episode 31
Episode 31 is a retrospective on the hope that managed Ippo championship. It is made in the form of a newspaper article commented and writte...
Throw Your Right!
Season 1 - Episode 32
After two straight missed Ippo, the sparring match is abandoned. Meanwhile, Sendo, the great favorites of the match, continues to train. Jus...
Smash Force
Season 1 - Episode 33
Makunouchi takes the smash improved Sendo, and crashed into the ropes, but do not fall! Alas, his legs tremble, Sendo and the opportunity to...
The Rookie King
Season 1 - Episode 34
Sendo Makunouchi and continues to cast powerful blows to turn, but neither weakens, they are very determined !! But after a few moments, Sen...
The Continuing Journey
Season 1 - Episode 35
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 ...
The Champ and I
Season 1 - Episode 36
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 th...
A Thing to Strive For
Season 1 - Episode 37
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 ...
Two Rookies of the Year
Season 1 - Episode 38
Okita also control the blow that had allowed Date set down Ippo 2 times !! Ippo, panicked, took distance, and Okita feints put the uncomfort...
Challenge in a Foreign Land
Season 1 - Episode 39
In Thailand, Miyata a draw against a second-class boxer. Decision of the arbitrator although debatable, the Japanese are not welcome there, ...
A Counter to Surpass All Counters
Season 1 - Episode 40
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...
Barf-michi's Big Fight
Season 1 - Episode 41
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 n...
Sharing a Dream
Season 1 - Episode 42
Ippo thinks of quitting boxing.
The Speed Star
Season 1 - Episode 43
Ippo gets ready for his match against Saeki the Speed Star.
Blind Spot in the Ring
Season 1 - Episode 44
Ippo fights Saeki.
The White Fangs of the Wolf
Season 1 - Episode 45
Gero-michi leaves and has to move away.
Be the Gazelle
Season 1 - Episode 46
Aoki, Kimura & Ippo train hard for their next match of the tournament class A. They linked together jogging, sparring and Shadow Boxing to b...
The Fighting Spirit Within
Season 1 - Episode 47
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...
The Red Wolf
Season 1 - Episode 48
The match between Volg and Ippo begins.
The Courage to Believe
Season 1 - Episode 49
Volg and Ippo continue to duke it out in a hard-fought and long battle.
Something to Convey
Season 1 - Episode 50
The end of the Volg match.
Group Date
Season 1 - Episode 51
Group date, literally. Ippo walks Mashiba's Kumi home.
The Challenger
Season 1 - Episode 52
Recap episode.
So That I Can Be Myself
Season 1 - Episode 53
Background episode for Date Eiji.
Fists of the Champ
Season 1 - Episode 54
"The champions have special powers! "That is what was said to Takamura Ippo before his defense of the title match. But after weight problems...
The Japan Featherweight Title Match
Season 1 - Episode 55
The episode begins the day before the match for the title of Ippo, during training with mittens. But the latter is shortened, the coach look...
The Power that Stands in the Way
Season 1 - Episode 56
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. ...
Conclusion
Season 1 - Episode 57
"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 ma...
Heartbroken
Season 1 - Episode 58
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 ...
Look of Determination
Season 1 - Episode 59
The match between Sendou Takeshi and Volg Zangief starts.
Rival
Season 1 - Episode 60
Sendou wins the match versus Volg.
Comeback Anxiety
Season 1 - Episode 61
Miyata Ichirou defeats Li Chou Bil.
Revival
Season 1 - Episode 62
Coach returns from the hospital, and Makunochi "hits without being hit".
Youth of Fire
Season 1 - Episode 63
The past of Aoki and Kimura is shown.
Hot Rod Era
Season 1 - Episode 64
Second part of Aoki's and Kimura's past.
The Summer of the Kamogawa Corps
Season 1 - Episode 65
The group go to training camp in the mountains.
Mr. Takamura's Tears
Season 1 - Episode 66
Takamura fights a bear.
The Kamogawa Gym Swings Into Action
Season 1 - Episode 67
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 nih...
The Chief's Peril
Season 1 - Episode 68
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 ...
The Trap of the Southpaw
Season 1 - Episode 69
Ippo and coach arriving in the city where the featherweight champion, Takeshi Sendo must defend his title against Shigeta Akira, 4th categor...
The Young Punk
Season 1 - Episode 70
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 po...
Time for the Showdown
Season 1 - Episode 71
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 peopl...
Lollapalooza
Season 1 - Episode 72
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 int...
Surpass That Moment
Season 1 - Episode 73
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 ...
Mixup
Season 1 - Episode 74
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 ...
One Step Further
Season 1 - Episode 75
Ippo and Sendo's match concludes.