

Kumi watches him throwing some jabs from the path behind him, Ippo says that he will become faster and stronger. In the end we see Ippo and Kamogawa training, and later we see him at the tree were it all started. Back at Kamogawa, he says that he will challenge modern boxing, and make it to the top. Miyata goes on the roof of their gym saying that Ippo will evolve the Dempsey Roll. Later at night Kamogawa is speaking to Yagi about Ippo, that he tries to find a way to evolve the Dempsey Roll, and at the same time on Kawahara gym, Miyata tells his father that the Dempsey Roll is weak to counters, and that's why Kamogawa gym has yet to respond. It was fast but it wasn't powerful, his punches were light. The results.weren't good, Kamogawa countered him right at the beginning. The next day Ippo tells to Kamogawa that he has speed up the Dempsey Roll, and Kamogawa likes to see what he came up with.

Kamogawa gets all angry, shouts at him for reasons that he doesn't understand yet. Ippo didn't know anything about it so he ran back to the Gym to tell Coach why he didn't respond. Later that night when Ippo was going home, he was talking to himself of what he is after until Wanpo runs on him alone, and behind, Miyata walking towards him and takes him from the shirt, yelling him about not responding to the match. After Aoki mocked Kimura, they went immediately punching sandbags, and Ippo started training with Kamogawa. The rankers fell apart and only Aoki left which he is ranked 5th. Everyone got surprised that Aoki has a title match, which he got it by luck. At the same time Yagi comes out, saying that they have matches in spring (Ippo's fourth title defence, Aoki's title match, Itagaki East Japan Rookie King Tournament match and Takamura's world title defence). The interviewers disappointingly leave with nothing, then Aoki, Kimura and Takamura shout to Ippo of why he didn't tell that he wants to go after Ricardo's belt and take him down. Asking him if he aims higher or has someone who want to beat. Next morning at Kamogawa gym we see Ippo taking an interview about his defences. In the final episode of this season, we see Miyata training at the Kawahara gym and afterwards, he goes and tells to his father if Kamogawa gym responded yet. " 8AM" New Challenger is Round 26 of the Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting! - New Challenger anime, which is the adaptation of Jōji Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo series.
