Unseen Heights is Round 1078 of Jōji Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo manga series.
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- Title Page Character(s): Ippo Makunouchi, Manabu Itagaki, Masaru Aoki, Tatsuya Kimura
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Ippo claims how Takamura's unification title match with his WBC title and his opponent's WBA title is something amazing, wishing Aoki, Kimura, and Itagaki called him to let him know while he was away, however, they didn't know until now. Yagi explains how the WBA champion wanted to fight in the United States of America, however, Takamura refuses to fight outside Japan so he had to negotiate with him, and make sure the cards would sell out the venue. Yagi reveals that the semi-final is the world flyweight title, which the Japanese boxer, Tsuchiya, who is the second ranker is fighting the champion. Before that, is the OPBF lightweight title match and a match with a world ranked featherweight. The OPBF lightweight champion, Mashiba, and the one fighting the world ranked featherweight, Sendō were fighting on who would go first. As Itagaki notices how the only one from their gym fighting is Takamura, Takamura mocks him, Ippo, Aoki, and Kimura, while calling them losers. In the gym's office, Yagi notes how Takamura's six weight class conquest is hard to imagine, but with the condition Kamogawa gave him in order to move up to the super middleweight - the unification match, when he wins, his third world title match will be waiting for him. Kamogawa notes he should say "if", but Yagi thinks with Takamura, he can see it happening. Kamogawa claims that they are in uncharted territory with Takamura, as no Japanese has accomplished what Takamura is doing, and if he keeps winning, he doesn't know what he will run up against, and the new problems that will pop up. Yagi is happy to imagine the WBA and WBC middleweight belts sitting on their table. Yagi is sure he will bring even more belts, and wants to see with Kamogawa he fruits of their labour and Takamura's hard work. Kamogawa knows by experience that nothing lasts forever, thinking how Ippo and Takamura may be his last students he will ever have, wishing to see where the two will go next. Later, Ippo follows Takamura on his roadwork. During a break, Ippo asks Takamura if, during his match with Alfredo as he heard Takamura's commentary, he knew the reason why he lost, and asks if he thinks he has gotten weaker. Takamura claims that he should know that answer better than anyone else, and points out that he made no excuses to Kamogawa about why he lost, which hurt Kamogawa. Ippo is confused by what he means.