Ippo - Wally vs Ricardo will be the greatest upset in manga history

Any Forums will have the greatest meltdown this year.

Here's the plot armor Wally has going for him.

>Ippo's coach said if they rematch, then Ippo doesn't stand a chance. He never said this about Ricardo though.
>Wally's coach talked about how if Wally gets experience he will become the strongest boxer. They kept implying his only weakness is lack of experience.
> Time and time again they kept talking about how dangerous Wally will be in the future.
>Miguel told Kamogawa that he wishes to see the day that both their sons shine on the world stage.
>So far most things that Miguel predicted has came true in the story (all that's left is for Wally to become the strongest and for him to face against Ippo, these are the last 2 of Miguels predictions in the story)
>Miguel predicted the disaster Ippo will face and so much more. This means that Morikawa intended to use Miguel to foreshadow things that will happen later in the story. Don't ignore Miguels words.
>There's been build up between not just Ippo & Wally. But even both their coaches.
>Their rivalry has been since before Ippo was even fucking born. They were destined to do this.
>If Wally loses here, then it serves no narrative purpose, Billy was a World champion and was low-diffed. It'd just be a repeat of his previous fight.

>Meanwhile the development between Ippo & Ricardo is almost non-existent.
>Anything that might be foreshadowing with Ricardo, could be substituted with any boxer, even Wally. Ricardo just wants to find a good fight. It doesn't have to be Ippo for this to happen. If Wally beats him, then Ricardo's character arc ends all the same.
>So far every character said Wally doesn't stand a chance... EXCEPT Ippo. Even Ippo believes that Wally stands a chance giving him more foreshadowing for an upset.
>This is Morikawa's last chance to create the greatest upset in sports manga history. Upsets are common in sports where the "greatest" ends up losing even though no one thought they could lose.

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Also Morikawa made Wally fight the second longest in the manga, so that you can look back on it when they rematch so there's parallels to see how far ippo has come as he stops every strategy Wally used to do to him. He doesn't have that thematic parallel with Ricardo.

Wally is too strong. That's why he will lose.

If a Wally with experience can't beat Ricardo, then he will really be unbeatable. Ippo couldn't touch him even though he had no training.

Ricardo has been too hyped up as boxings ideal to be displaced by a gimmick fighter with only 1 on screen fight under his belt

That's how upsets work user. He just no-diffed a world champion, that was to scale him up before his loss comes in. All Shounen do this, they make the guy flex on someone before he loses.

>you were awesome, Wally

>no-diffed
Keep that twitterspeak away from here.

Miguel is a shit trainer, Kamogawa tier. It's fucking over Wallybros

Hawkbros enjoy

Kamogawa has more titles in his gym than any other trainer.