Fighting Spirit

Season 2, Episode 9

Episode Title: Inheritance Qualifications

Air Date: 2009-03-03

Overview:

The Kamogawa Boxing Gym gets a new recruit: Itagaki Manabu, the inter-high national runner up who happens to idolizes Ippo. Meanwhile, Ippo is hit with a blast from the past when he is challenged by Hammer Nao, his former junior who now seeks to defeat him and take his belt.