Chapter 857

The Champion of Nature
Chapter Info
Next	Chapter 858
Chapter	857
Previous	Chapter 856
Volume	89
Japanese Title	大自然の王者(チャンピオン)
Romanized Title	Dai Shizen no Ōja (Chanpion)
Pages	18
Arc	In the Jungle Arc
Issue	Weekly Shōnen Magazine #29, 2009 (cover date: July 1, 2009)
Release (JP)	June 17, 2009

The Champion of Nature is Round 857 of Jōji Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo manga series.

Details

• Characters Introduced: Wally
• Real Life People Mentioned: Saensak Muangsurin, Wilfred Benítez
• Locations Introduced: Indonesia
• Title Page Character(s): Genji Kamogawa, Manabu Itagaki, Ippo Makunouchi, Masaru Aoki, Tatsuya Kimura

Summary

Ippo asks Kamogawa what his next opponent is like. Kamogawa claims that with the video their side sent, he can only say it is a nice place, confusing Ippo. Before leaving the Kamogawa gym, Kamogawa tells everyone the Class A Tournament group and Ippo have matches in two months. After Kamogawa leaves, Ippo tells his gym mates how he is worried because on his third match, he was still a four-rounder who had just entered the East Japan Rookie King Tournament and not even thinking of a title match. Kimura notes that by his, Aoki, and Itagaki's third match, they already had a loss on their record. Itagaki points out that there was Saensak Muangsurin, who won the world title on his third match, and Wilfred Benítez, who was just 17 when he took the world title. He adds that the record for taking the JBC title is four matches. Yagi shows Ippo, Aoki, Kimura, and Itagaki the video that the Indonesian champion's side sent, however, it seemingly only showed nature shots with monkeys, and the champion not present anywhere in it. After Ippo took the video with him and left, Yagi expresses to the gym members about the concern that Kamogawa has about the person who sent the video. At the Makunouchi Fishing Boat, Ippo inspects the video, discovering that a man was among those monkeys. At the Pension Yoshio, Kamogawa talks with Nekota and informs him that the Indonesian champion's trainer is the same trainer that trained Bryan Hawk and someone that they knew in the past: Miguel Zale.