The brawler from Ashita No Joe vs the brawler from Hajime No Ippo.
1. Street fight, in Joe's urban playground.
2. In the ring.
Who wins?
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I'm at the part of Ashita where Joe gets beaten decisively at the prison. The former boxer who beat him walzed through a stampede of hogs, and knocked them out.
That may not be as good as Takamura KOing a bear, but it's still pretty ridiculous. I can't see Ippo doing that.
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
There is so much in this series that Ippo draws off of.
I'm not so sure Ippo is stronger then Joe anymore. The Monkey Man of his series was even crazier then Woolie, bouncing from rope to rope like a chimp, to
deliver punch's at rocket speed. And that leap into not one, but two corkscrew punch's in mid air, to land back on his feet by the third revolution, is toon force level crazy.
And Joe countered the thing. Lept in mid air and punched him into the matt, as he spun around in the air.
Basically, Joe has Ippo's punch's and toughness, Sendou's feral instincts, and Mashiba's "do whatever it takes to crush your enemy" attitude.
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
Second or third from the top. It devolved into a brawl, but it was a spectacular brawl, that ended the prospective champs career.
That alone beats anything Sendou or Ippo has done.
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.