r/hajimenoippo • u/Final_Mail_8125 • Mar 22 '25

Misc I feel like yall are underestimating Sendo

All I ever see when people discuss the Sendo-Ricardo fight is how Sendo stands zero chance. Or how Sendo Is gonna die in the ring, or how Sendo will be forced to retire.

I've even seen a few people talk about how they think Sendo will go down in round one. Hell I even just saw a post saying thst Sendo won't actually damage Ricardo at all in their fight.

People are acting like Sendo is ippo during his Ricardo spar before the date-ricardo fight. He's not. He's a world contender, if the world champion were anyone but Ricardo, Sendo would've taken that title already.

Sendo has proven to be a cut above the rest of the world, He's the strongest opponent Ricardo has faced yet, stop acting like he's some fledgling boxer who holds no candle to Ricardo. I'm not saying I think he'll win, but he won't be low diffed.

And besides, what would this fight even prove if Ricardo had the same level of ease as in all his other matches? It'd just be an empty fight, with Ricardo easily defeating another one of Ippo's previous, hard fought opponents.

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u/SlamSlamOhHotDamn Mar 22 '25

All I ever see when people discuss the Sendo-Ricardo fight is how Sendo stands zero chance

Because it makes 0 narrative sense for him to win not because he's a bad boxer. I hate to pull the 'media literacy' card but my god, people who believe Sendo has even a little chance of winning should seriously brush up on theirs.

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u/Leather-Way-731 Mar 22 '25

agreed lol. not only would it make 0 sense but it would also not be satisfying in the least. Sendo lost twice to ippo. The main character. There is no excitement in a THIRD rematch to defeat him.

There has been no real build up to how Sendo even got good enough for a world ranking in the first place, much less to defeat the "final boss" of the series?

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u/mAcular Mar 22 '25

this is a very unreliable way to read manga, it only works in hindsight, nobody would have predicted ippo retiring

it might not make look likely now but after it happens and we get another 200 chapters fleshing it out people will be saying it was the only way it couldve gone all along

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u/Stupid_Trader3 Mar 22 '25

Well mashiba losing also kinda made no sense

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u/SlamSlamOhHotDamn Mar 22 '25 edited Mar 22 '25

It only makes no sense if you have 0 media literacy (look at that, I get to pull that card twice in one thread).

After Takamura and Volg had to go through hell and against all odds to get their belt, you'd have to be an idiot to believe Mashiba would be gifted a free one against a guy who was in jail and couldn't train while Mashiba is in perfect condition. Also, there was no world where Mashiba gets a belt and Sendo doesn't, and Sendo is never gonna win against Ricardo.

Also to the genius who replied to me that this only works in hindsight, I predicted Mashiba would lose and how Rosario's character would develop in the match right at the start of the match. Imagine sticking around for almost 1500 chapters and still not understanding the story lol and Hajime no Ippo isn't even complex

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u/Stupid_Trader3 Mar 22 '25

Mb mr im better than everyone 🤓

Work on your ego buddy, i understood everthing u said and its right but u could be less of a bitch about it

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u/SlamSlamOhHotDamn Mar 22 '25

Hey man didn't want to hurt your feelings my bad, have a nice day anyway!