Dodge, Duck, and Dive In is Round 1039 of Jōji Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo manga series.
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- Title Page Character(s): Ippo Makunouchi, Alfredo González, Mamoru Takamura, Eiji Date, Genji Kamogawa, Ryūhei Sawamura, Kazuki Sanada, Ryō Mashiba, Malcolm Gedo
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Ippo charges once again and barely dodges a left uppercut. Ippo ducks under the dodged punch and throws a liver blow, however, Alfredo barely blocks it in time, but he still feels the pain. As Ippo was about to throw a follow up punch, the referee signals an end to the first round. Walking to his corner, Alfredo is sure of it that Ippo is used to punches that change direction and had a plan to deal with them. Ippo thinks that it was hard to think about the four different type of punches that Mashiba, Sanada, Gedo, and Sawamura used against him before, but with the training Kamogawa had him do, he understands now. Watching the match on television, Itagaki tells Aoki and Kimura that Ippo can do it because he is he type that is destined for the top. At Ippo's corner, Ippo tells Kamogawa that Alfredo's punches may change directions, but that is what he trained him for, and plans to not overthink things and do what his body knows.