Ippo Makunouchi's first fight to defend the Feather-Weight belt was soon coming.Doing that Ippo and Coach Kamogawa had trained and trained until the day they were going to fight.On the day everyone had came, but that didn't do anything to Ippo besides make him feel under pressure. While he was under pressure Sanada (Former Champion) and (Doctor) had already felt Ippo's pressure, doing so Ippo was caught off guard and Sanada had used the heirn.

But at the end Hamda Dankichi had told Sanada a deadly technique. Sanda stood back up and dodged all Ippo's attacks doing that Sanada had been punching Ippo's Stomach. Until Coach Kamogawa had seen what he did, and explained to Ippo what it does, and what it does is it weakens the legs a lot.

But then Ippo couldn't stand up until he told Coach Kamogawa to slap him on the back to wake his legs up. And when Kamogawa had slapped him on the back Ippo immediately stood up and when to Sanada and did the Gazelle Punch for a finish and then did the Dempsey roll.

Doing the Dempsey roll he had punched him a lot but he was still up. And just about when Sanada was about to K.O Ippo he had frozen up and just fell to the ground. When he had fell to the Ground the referee stopped the count, and Ippo successfully defended his belt.