10.0/101 votesLoading...#1 - Group Date
Season 1 Episode 51 - Aired 10/2/2001
Group date, literally. Ippo walks Mashiba's Kumi home.
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10.0/101 votesLoading...#2 - The Challenger
Season 1 Episode 52 - Aired 10/9/2001
Recap episode.
Director: Kenichi Kawamura
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10.0/101 votesLoading...#3 - So That I Can Be Myself
Season 1 Episode 53 - Aired 10/16/2001
Background episode for Date Eiji.
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10.0/101 votesLoading...#4 - Fists of the Champ
Season 1 Episode 54 - Aired 10/23/2001
"The champions have special powers! "That is what was said to Takamura Ippo before his defense of the title match. But after weight problems and a passage in a sauna that has significantly weakened, Takamura finds himself in trouble with his challenger Tamaki but still holds out and the gong sounds the end of the 1st round. The 2nd round barely begun, but Takamura load Tamaki is pushing his fitness is at its lowest, it is out of breath and roll with the punches of his opponent.
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10.0/101 votesLoading...#5 - The Japan Featherweight Title Match
Season 1 Episode 55 - Aired 10/30/2001
The episode begins the day before the match for the title of Ippo, during training with mittens. But the latter is shortened, the coach looks ill. While Aoki asks Ippo to reach him, Kimura Takamura and Tomiko to make something interesting ... When the young boxer arrives, he learns that Tomiko will predict his future, but then refuses Takamura and Kimura are there to prevent him from leaving the coach then makes appearance and berates everyone !!!
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10.0/101 votesLoading...#6 - The Power that Stands in the Way
Season 1 Episode 56 - Aired 11/6/2001
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. The beginning of the 3rd round is the perfect copy of the 2nd, shots exchanges and this time it's the date that takes advantage. But Ippo not allowed to do, Liver Blow launches and connects to a violent attack! Ippo but still has that feeling to touch and see in fact nothing Date Eiji swinging his head depending on the direction of the shot, a technique made to dissipate the power of the blows ...
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10.0/101 votesLoading...#7 - Conclusion
Season 1 Episode 57 - Aired 11/13/2001
"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 maximum for this fight. It resumes and cons Date of overkill shot! Champion legs no longer obey him and Ippo launches a huge live date but with its iron will narrowly dodge and 4th round ends. No one in the audience knows what will happen, not even the defending champion of average weight Takamura Mamoru.
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10.0/101 votesLoading...#8 - Heartbroken
Season 1 Episode 58 - Aired 11/20/2001
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 audience ... We then see Takeshi Sendo raging against Ippo! He thought that he would win and would give him a match demand, but he realizes that there are now two people above him. Vorg then appeared, both boxers are actually in the same situation, they want to take their revenge on Makunouchi!
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10.0/101 votesLoading...#9 - Look of Determination
Season 1 Episode 59 - Aired 11/27/2001
The match between Sendou Takeshi and Volg Zangief starts.
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10.0/101 votesLoading...#10 - Rival
Season 1 Episode 60 - Aired 12/4/2001
Sendou wins the match versus Volg.
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10.0/101 votesLoading...#11 - Comeback Anxiety
Season 1 Episode 61 - Aired 12/11/2001
Miyata Ichirou defeats Li Chou Bil.
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10.0/101 votesLoading...#12 - Revival
Season 1 Episode 62 - Aired 12/18/2001
Coach returns from the hospital, and Makunochi "hits without being hit".
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10.0/101 votesLoading...#13 - Youth of Fire
Season 1 Episode 63 - Aired 12/25/2001
The past of Aoki and Kimura is shown.
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10.0/101 votesLoading...#14 - Hot Rod Era
Season 1 Episode 64 - Aired 1/8/2002
Second part of Aoki's and Kimura's past.
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10.0/101 votesLoading...#15 - The Summer of the Kamogawa Corps
Season 1 Episode 65 - Aired 1/15/2002
The group go to training camp in the mountains.
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10.0/101 votesLoading...#16 - Mr. Takamura's Tears
Season 1 Episode 66 - Aired 1/22/2002
Takamura fights a bear.
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10.0/101 votesLoading...#17 - The Kamogawa Gym Swings Into Action
Season 1 Episode 67 - Aired 1/29/2002
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 nihon club and the other being Shigeta Akira, a young boxer ranked 4th featherweight and will therefore fight for the title against Sendo. The coach asks the coach if his boxer could eventually do a sparring ippo face. The coach agrees. We then see ippo completely lost against an opponent whose main feature is ...
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10.0/101 votesLoading...#18 - The Chief's Peril
Season 1 Episode 68 - Aired 2/5/2002
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 a little more difficulty. But hey go to the main match of the evening, obviously this is the game Takamura who calls himself "the bear killer" now. While everyone is impatient in the room. Takamura offers us a memorable entrance, nay exceptional !!! He wears the skin of the bear Nekota-san brought him mountains.
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10.0/101 votesLoading...#19 - The Trap of the Southpaw
Season 1 Episode 69 - Aired 2/12/2002
Ippo and coach arriving in the city where the featherweight champion, Takeshi Sendo must defend his title against Shigeta Akira, 4th category. At the beginning of the match, we see very manhandled by the champion challenger. Indeed, as Ippo, Sendo is struggling to impose its style of boxing against a southpaw boxer, that is to say a southpaw boxer. Sendo tries to put his best shots Shigeta, but it dodges every time and even manages to outsmart his famous fatal blow, the Smash.
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10.0/102 votesLoading...#20 - The Young Punk
Season 1 Episode 70 - Aired 2/19/2002
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 powerful and his expression bloodthirsty killer scared. The Ippo thoughts suddenly stopped by his mother. Kumi, the friend of ippo wants to talk on the phone joy Ho, Ho love, Ippo is quick to take the handset. After some discussion between timid, our lovebirds decide when even an appointment.
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10.0/102 votesLoading...#21 - Time for the Showdown
Season 1 Episode 71 - Aired 2/26/2002
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 people coming to buy their tickets for this match promises to be memorable. Yagi advertisement for Ippo that all match tickets were sold in one day, amazing. The next day is the day of the weigh-in. Ippo enters the room, always a little anxious, he sees Sendo, the defending champion has not changed, still relaxed too.
Director: Shinji Satoh
Writer: Ryosuke Nakamura
10.0/102 votesLoading...#22 - Lollapalooza
Season 1 Episode 72 - Aired 3/5/2002
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 into position. The champion is found on land that is a panic down. But we suspected that Sendo was not going to stop there, he gets up with difficulty ... In revenge and especially to repel the new qu'Ippo Dempsey Roll is about to launch, the champion sent a straight right in the custody of our hero, not to worry, in theory ...
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10.0/102 votesLoading...#23 - Surpass That Moment
Season 1 Episode 73 - Aired 3/12/2002
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 same way as has finished the second. Ippo gets scared, he knows a single shot Sendo could send it to the mat. Distraught, our hero does not know what to do, he took refuge behind his guard and cash titanic blows champion. After an uppercut and a smash Sendo took the full brunt, it makes up for in accuracy and sends a desperate shot ...
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10.0/102 votesLoading...#24 - Mixup
Season 1 Episode 74 - Aired 3/19/2002
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 will never recover. 5th round begins with a superb one to two of Ippo, but Sendo replica and sends ippo the ropes and starts sending high-powered shots in the custody of the challenger. Seeing his boxer so ready for victory, the coach still Sendo revisit it when it was just a thug brawler.
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10.0/103 votesLoading...#25 - One Step Further
Season 1 Episode 75 - Aired 3/26/2002
Ippo and Sendo's match concludes.
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The Best Episodes of Fighting Spirit
Every episode of Fighting Spirit ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Fighting Spirit!
Makunouchi Ippo is an ordinary high school student in Japan. Since he spends most of his time away from school helping his mother run the...
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Best Episodes Summary
"Group Date" is the best rated episode of "Fighting Spirit". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/2/2001. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Challenger".