Fighting Spirit: Rising · review
9
/10
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This review may discuss plot details.
I gave this a 9/10 basically purely because of Sawamura and Kamogawa vs Anderson. Sawamura is by far one of my favorite villains, and his boxing style was so cool to me. The comparison between Sawamura's "dark" counters and Ichiro's "light" counters was a cool tie-in. The fight between him and Ippo was super entertaining and the finishing Dempsey roll was very satisfying. The fight between Kamogawa and Anderson was chock-full of emotional and physical stakes, and the reveal that Kamogawa was the one who started Nekota's CTE symptoms was shocking and sad. THOSE TWO LAST BODY BLOWS THOUGH. I FELT THOSE.