The white suicide outfit...
The "death jacket" that each chief dons before a fight to the death!
Chief... Please don't die!
"Fighting Kids"
We're now in the last half of the second round!
"Pro Boxing Ian McGregor" Challenging world heavyweight boxing champion Ian McGregor is...
"Biker Gang Shiba Chiharu" Challenging world heavyweight boxing champion Ian McGregor is...
"Biker Gang Shiba Chiharu" ...biker gang leader, Shiba Chiharu!
They're in such different leagues that this'll be one unique match-up!
Yo, you're the best at boxing, right?
Which makes you world representative, huh?
I'm representin' the Japanese race myself.
As fellow representatives, let's do this thing without handicaps...
W-what is Shiba Chiharu doing?!
First, I gotta do somethin' about this...
My word!
He's head-butting- no, face-butting- the cast on his left arm!
H-he finally broke the cast!
He could have possibly used it as a weapon, but threw it away instead!
That's our chief for ya!
The world champion ain't got nothin' on you!
Win, Chief!
Alright, guys!
I'm gonna show ya all a dream!
Begin!
Shiba jumps!
McGregor is down!
Alright! He's in the zone!
An unbelievable sight!
The world champion is being overpowered by a biker gang leader!
Is this a miracle?!
Chiharu! You're so wonderful!
What's this?! Shiba attacks McGregor with the cast he tore off earlier!
This is a clear violation of the rules!
Champ!
--That ain't fair, Shiba! --Don't you got any shame?!
Too soft... The whole lot of you are too soft!
This dude's the world champion!
This ain't gonna put him to beddy-bye!
Incredible! Almost as if to say it had no effect, McGregor stands tall!
Told ya so!
B-blinding dust?! Shiba Chiharu is really pushing his luck!
Stop! Stop the match!
Why are you resorting to these childish tricks, Japanese fighting kid?!
Surely you know not even a handgun could take me down!
Sir! Declare him the loser for breaking the rules!
Wait! What is that?!
Hey. Open yer eyes, Champion.
W-what on earth is this?!
Shiba has tied their legs together with the sash around his waist!
That's... the legendary Ichimonji Pier Death Match!
Y-you mean the death match the chief's never lost once?!
He can win! No, he already has won!
A-are you just going to overlook this outrage?!
Sir!
Should McGregor say even one word against it,
Shiba Chiharu will immediately lose for breaking the rules!
Shiba's supporters are completely certain of his victory.
What could this mean?! It's ominous!
With their legs tied together, there's no place to run.
What's the point of being at such an obvious disadvantage?
Hanayama-san?
That Chiharu...
Now things're gettin' amusing...
I'm through playing with you!
McGregor makes his move! But Shiba doesn't retreat one step!
What the-?!
Sorry, Champion.
This's the only way I can fight you head-on!
It's almost like he's playing Cat's Cradle!
Down! McGregor is down!
Now that's some major damage!
Alright!
Sam! Stop the fight! The champion's gonna get destroyed!
One... Two...
--Who- Who's counting? --Three... Four... Five...
--This isn't a ten-count fight... --Six... Seven...
--Who's counting?! --Eight...
Hey, boy... Are we awake?
You know who I am?
Y-yeah... The great boxing king, Johnny L. Donovan!
Johnny L. Donovan.
At the start of the 20th century, when boxing was changing
from bare-knuckle fighting to a competitive sport using gloves,
he was the world champion of both rules...
This legendary boxer had an all-time record of 44-1, with 33 KOs.
But this is too hard to watch...
You call yourself the current world heavyweight boxing champion?!
Listen, boy. Being heavyweight boxing champion...
...means you're the strongest man on the planet, you know!
OK, boy! Fight!
Hey, Sam! Stop the fight!
Thank you, John!
What?!
Our god of boxing is with him!
What's this?!
McGregor is back up!
You asked for it...
Bastard!
H-he stopped him!
McGregor stopped him! This is bad!
Oh, crap...
McGregor finally unleashes his Iron Punches!
He fires off intense punches as if to say this is payback time!
Shiba Chiharu is down!
I-it's all over!
Champ! Good job!
Sorry I worried you. Get my gloves...
Johnny L. Donovan must be happy, too...
You saw him too?
It's just like it...
It's just like back then...
In which case, I can do this!
Try sayin' that again, asshole!
Couldn't hear me when I said I'd crush you half-shits, huh?!
S-smartass! Kill 'im!
Givin' up already, huh?!
Go to hell!
I dunno what it is, but...
...power's swelling up inside my body...
Shiba's face-butt hits McGregor square on!
Shiba Chiharu wasn't dead!
Will he pull off a comeback win with his demonic barrage?!
It's... different now...
This isn't boxing anymore!
W-what's this?! McGregor has tossed his own gloves off!
These fists pulled me up out of the slums of Brooklyn...
Yes! These fists alone are my principles, my weapons!
McGregor removes the gloves that constrained him as a boxer
and challenges his opponent to a bare-handed fight!
The significance of this is huge!
Bare-handed this, barehanded that!
Street-fightin's always been done bare-handed, ya know!
Fearsome are McGregor's bare fists! They're truly as sharp as knives!
I-is this how powerful the weapons known as fists can be?!
Things look bad for Shiba!
That really hurt... Thought my eyeballs were gonna pop out there...
But... you've made one big mistake...
You threw away your gloves- the greatest weapons you had...
Oh no! McGregor's iron fist is smashed to pieces!
No!
The towel! McGregor's supporter has thrown in the towel!
Meaning that McGregor loses the match!
Hold it!
Your supporter threw in the towel, but do you wish to continue?
Sorry, Mr. Tokugawa. Forgive him- I mean, Sam.
He's getting up there in age,
and I guess he's mistaken this fight for a boxing match or something...
M- McGregor...
I see...
But if you continue, you may never box again, you know.
Are you prepared for that?
That Chiharu Shiba is fighting me with no regard for the future.
So I have to do the same thing. Besides...
If Chiharu Shiba represents Tokyo,
then this fighting kid represents Brooklyn!
Continue!
Don't need this no more.
Don't need nothin'.
If you're a punk representin' Brooklyn, we don't need any handicaps...
So now let's see who's stronger, 'kay?
You're gonna do it, Chief?!
That's our chief for ya!
Chief...
Isn't that kinda dangerous to do against the world champion?
No tricks... A quick, clean fight...
I don't wanna sound stuck-up or nothing,
but this fight's gonna make me king of Japanese and American punks!
Oh my god!
Ready... go!
Who'd have thunk it?!
The world boxing champion and a biker gang leader
are duking it out in a fistfight!
What a spectacle!
A total amateur is easily holding his own
against the man with the world's strongest punches!
Why are they doing that?!
Chief!
Please stop! You'll be killed!
We've seen how gutsy you are!
We've seen the dream!
So please!
Chief!
Hey, now...
Quit blubberin', you guys...
Do you think I'm gonna lose to that candy ass?!
C- Chief...
Don't forget...
I'm representin' Japanese gangs here!
I guess that sorta makes me like you guys' old man, huh?
I might not be able to kick his ass, but...
As your representative, I wanna at least once scare the crap...
...outta that heavyweight champ!
W-what's this?! McGregor's chief supporter jumps into the ring!
This is a clear violation of the rules!
Match over!
The winner, Shiba Chiharu!
Chief!
W-what an ending!
World heavyweight boxing champion Ian McGregor is defeated!
The winner is absolute martial arts amateur, Shiba Chiharu!
I- I can still fight him...
You won! You won, Chief!
What kept the amateur victor going was his "guts" alone!
But with this victory, he's shown us the limitless power guts have!
He may be scorned by society, but to me, he seems incredibly divine,
much like a martial arts martyr!
Why... Why did you stop me?!
I'll stop you all I want! Even if it means getting beaten to death!
Why did God give you these fists?! To win a street-fight?!
Listen, McGregor!
Over centuries, man has molded the simple act of fist-fighting
into the art form we now know today as boxing!
Remember! You're the greatest man in the history of that grand sport!
What a disappointment, boy...
John?!
The strongest man in the world, reduced to this... How pathetic...
You damn ghost!
Nice punch, Sam...
Nah, not really...
Chief! We'll get you to the doc right away!
The boss of the Hanayama gang!
Ossu!
F-forgive my being a lowly ruffian!
That was a good fight...
You're a model hoodlum.
Ossu!
Doctor. I take it Shiba can no longer continue?
The kid took all those heavyweight blows to the head!
Any more mischief like that and he's as good as dead!
Which means it's time to bring out the last reserver!
Huh? There's another one?
W-what the-?!
T- Taktaroff!
D-don't tell me he's the-
That's right! The tournament's last and most powerful reserver!
Undefeated in 600 wrestling matches! Andreanof Garland!
There was a man.
He regained the blades that languished fighting had lost.
When the darkness flashes, blood rains in the underground arena.
Ultimate Vale Tudo.
The curtain of atrocity rises.
Next Episode- "Fangs"