Chapter 809

Two Strong Willed Men
Chapter Info
Next	Chapter 810
Chapter	809
Previous	Chapter 808
Volume	85
Japanese Title	強気な２人
Romanized Title	Tsuyokina 2-ri
Pages	16
Arc	Red Lightning Arc
Issue	Weekly Shōnen Magazine #20, 2008 (cover date: April 30, 2008)
Release (JP)	April 16, 2008

Two Strong Willed Men is Round 809 of Jōji Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo manga series.

Details

• Title Page Character(s): Manabu Itagaki, Ippo Makunouchi

Summary

Itagaki goes outside the Kawahara gym and notices Ippo sneaking around. They both decide to stay outside a watch Miyata and Sendō talk. Kida and the Kawahara coach are not impressed of Sendō coming and requesting a spar with Miyata unannounced and without permission, however, Miyata becomes okay with the spar after being smacked on the head by Sendō when he first declined by wanting the coach's permission first. Miyata gets his payback from Sendō hitting him by throwing the sparring gloves that Sendō gave him on his head and getting his own, making the two equally serious. Itagaki heads back inside to be Sendō's second. While Kida voices his concerns about them sparring to Miyata's father, the father believes that there is no stopping them and he doesn't want to disappoint the trainees that have gathered to watch. Miyata's father also sees the two world rankers sparring as a dream match. Miyata's father thinks that he couldn't have asked for a better sparring partner for Miyata since Sendō is a natural born uppercut user. When the spar begins, Sendō warns Miyata that his knuckles hurt, before getting immediately hit in the face with a left jab, irritating Sendō. Sendō rushes towards Miyata, but gets pushed back as he gets hit in the face with left jabs. Sendō thinks of how Miyata's fast and painful lefts makes his opponent drop their guard, letting Miyata able to hit them with rights. After dodging a left jab, Sendō breaks Miyata's guard with a Smash and sends out another Smash, however, the second Smash misses as Sendō gets hit by a counter.