I'm a little worried about kimura. I always thought he will be the one to retire first and this match might be the one that will make him take the decision. Ippo is clearly not meant to be a second. He created a plan on how he could win, even the croud said that kimura was acting like an infighter. Probably they throw us hints that ippo will soon make his comeback, it's just a matter of time until he realise it himself.
