The Hajime no Ippo (HnI) thread - Gazelle Punch Her in the Gut!

[Shafted!]

Originally Posted by v1cE

Wow, can't believe I JUST found this thread lol....

Been a long time fan of Ippo and..well...this fight is mixed for me at the moment. While I do like the idea of a future mega champion fighting Ippo as a rookie, the physics defying bullshit that's going on lately has me kind of ticked. I always thought what made HnI so great was that while to a certain extent the moves and abilities are over exaggerated, there was always a basis of truth in them.

This fight, however, is just flat out ridiculous. If this keeps up it's going to enter into Eyeshield 21 levels of blatant anime over exaggeration and a real shit storm will start with the readers lol.

The chapters aren't TOO bad once they are translated(well besides Ippo's minor "IDONTKNOWIDONTKNOW!" breakdown). For this fight to be remembered as a "good fight", Ippo is going to have to absolutely crush this kid with his experience sometime sooner rather than later.

Hell, fights still better than the Gedo fight atleast.

wtf

at least gedo somewhat boxed his own style and didn't pull shit out of his ass, like flickers, smash, defying laws of physics.

fuck thsi fuck fuck it to hell fuck ippo

[v1cE]

Meh, I don't know. Even after rereading the Gedo fight as a whole after it was finished, I never really liked it. Sure the defying laws of physics in the Woli fight is really annoying, but as a whole I couldn't get behind Gedo being a serious threat to Ippo.

Coming from an attempt to ground the series in reality(quite lulzworthy, I know), Gedo just wasn't as fearsome of an opponent as he should have been. I guess I contribute it to the lack of build up and the fact that his whole magician persona revolved almost entirely around his glove trick and just how dumbfounded EVERYONE was by it. Sure I get that loosening the glove to give it a bit of a length boost can throw a boxer off, but it's not enough to build an entire character around. I just found it unbelievable how Ippo suddenly panicked(more so than usual) and thought he was fighting Dhalsim or something. So yeah, while it wasn't my favorite fight it DID have two redeeming qualities:

1. It was awesome to hear Gedo brag about how getting punched didn't scare him because he was shot and almost killed in his past, only to freak the fuck out and think his face was punched off after Ippo caught him with a clean shot to the face
2. It hyped up Randy Boy Jr.

As for Woli, sure he's using flickers and smashes and punches from other characters, but they aren't really working that well on Ippo. It's a combination of the fact that Woli cannot throw Mashiba-like flickers or Sendo-like smashes(he might naturally know how to throw these punches, but not nearly as well as the others) and the fact that Ippo has neutralized these weapons before. The idea of a prodigy boxer being able to be a serious threat even without any technique due to his unpredictability and raw athleticism isn't TOO far of a stretch in boxing. (I guess Prince Naseem Hamed is a good example of this, the boxer that Bryan Hawk was primarily based off of)

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You don't realize that Woli has his own style to using the moves, the flickers and his movement are just to be annoying. He used a Sendo smash (because that arc doesn't really make it a smash anymore since it's technically just a vertical straight punch, this is a proper uppercut) that went under and between peekaboo. It's more similar to a one-shot version of Sanada's sideways uppercut. I don't know, Woli is just throwing a bunch of bullshit moves that are hitting because Morikawa deemed them hittable regardless of the situation for fake fight drama build-up bullshit.