A Bold Super Middleweight Declaration! is Round 1268 of Jōji Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo manga series.
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- Title Page Character(s): Mamoru Takamura, Michael Goat
Summary[]
With Goat down, the referee ends the match immediately after seeing the damage, resulting in Takamura winning his WBA and WBC title defence. Aoki and Kimura express their thoughts on the match, while Itagaki wonders if anyone noticed what Takamura did in the match. Ippo believes he figured something out after noticing what Takamura did with his lefts, and Taihei and Kintarō merely figured out that Takamura is awesome. Ana then interviews Takamura. For the first question, he answers that he was sorry he was too strong, which angers the crowd. Takamura then announces that he would be moving forward from the middleweight class to the super middleweight class, making the crowd excited until Takamura states he is sorry for being too strong again. That night, at the Kamogawa gym, Taihei and Kintarō are relieved to blink again after getting ordered by Ippo to not keep their eyes off Takamura. Kamogawa asks Ippo if it applied to him and if he learned anything. Ippo answers that since he started boxing, he never stopped learning anything and, as long as he is involved with boxing, the learning will never stop. Ippo and his students then leave to go run. Yagi wonders how Ippo will be involved with boxing moving forward. While Taihei and Kintarō are unable to keep up with Ippo, Ippo realises that, after watching Takamura fight, that is how he should use his left.