How to Deal with the Second Arrow is Round 1042 of Jōji Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo manga series.
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- Title Page Character(s): Ippo Makunouchi, Alfredo González
Summary[]
Ippo sees the hidden shot, the second arrow. From the start, Alfredo was hiding another shot in the shadow of his left fist. Miyata confirms that, it's hard to hit someone who ducks a lot with a straight punch. Alfredo intentionally used uppercuts to make Ippo use headslips instead and the result he got was "Ippo dodges left". The important hit on Alfredo's one-two is actually two. He uses this while punching with his left and before pulling it he uses the right and it seems it came from nowhere because it hides the actual punch, the second right. Ippo sees the punch but he has no time to dodge so Alfredo hits directly to Ippo's head. Ippo slips back with the power of the punch. Everyone else hears the sound of the punch and all of them thinks it was a powerful punch. But then, Ippo puts down his leg and knocks his gloves together. Now everyone thinks that the punch had no effect on Ippo. Mashiba and Sendō talks, Alfredo almost looks like he is in pain, then Sendō realises Alfredo's right hand. Miyata chuckles and mentions back in the day when he fought with Ippo, he did the same think and Ippo stopped with his head like it was nothing. It's simple, but also effective. When someone has a forehead slammed to their fist, it makes their hand go numb for a while he explains. The training Kamogawa gave him comes to Ippo's mind and Ippo starts to believe he can actually stand a chance against the number two in the world. Kamogawa also thinks he can actually hit Alfredo.