Climactic 7th Round is Round 1065 of Jōji Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo manga series.
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- Title Page Character(s): Ippo Makunouchi, Alfredo González
Summary[]
As the seventh round begins, Fujii comments how Alfredo knows how strong Ippo is now, so he doubts that he will come out swinging, but if he backs out like he did in the earlier rounds, Ippo may not be able to touch him. Kamogawa yells out to Ippo to not expect Alfredo to come to him, so he should bring the fight to him. However, it is Alfredo who makes the first move as he gets into close range and throws a left hook that Ippo barely ducked in time. Ippo blocks against Alfredo's full powered punches, but his legs are shaky. Ippo ducks left to dodge a left jab, and then sends a left uppercut from his ducking position. Alfredo thought it would be a liver blow so he barely dodged the uppercut, and he wobbles afterwards. One of Alfredo's seconds ask Alfredo's coach why he let him continue using the Mextli Mode, as he remembers how his anger was exploited in his world title match], so Alfredo might get hit again. Alfredo's coach admits that Ippo is strong, and while Alfredo has always been able to keep in-fighters like Ippo away with technique and overwhelm them, this time he is fighting someone different with unbelievable resilience, seemingly limitless stamina, and he gains momentum then closes in like a tornado, so if Alfredo backs off now, he will get sucked in. Alfredo is thankful his coach reminded him of his goal: the Quetzalcóatl called Ricardo, who Alfredo sees as the Death God.