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** One for Joe comes when Smiley starts to fight back and hits him with a headbutt: the referee is about to take points from Smiley and threatens to disqualify him in spite of his protests it had been an accident, but Joe ''calls the referee off'', declaring it was clearly an accident, and even if it wasn't it would have been his fault for not dodging it. Then he starts hitting Smiley.
** About two minutes in the first round, Smiley knocks Joe down with an uppercut. Joe stands back up... And [[LetsGetDangerous gets serious]]: he was going toe-on-toe with the top contender ''while holding back''. By the time the bell rings, Smiley is already bleeding and wondering what the hell has just happened.
** About two minutes in the first round, Smiley knocks Joe down with an uppercut. Joe stands back up... And [[LetsGetDangerous gets serious]]: he was going toe-on-toe with the top contender ''while holding back''. By the time the bell rings, Smiley is already bleeding and wondering what the hell has just happened.
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** At the start of the match Smiley proves he's the top contender by going with no guard (one of Joe's old tricks, [[LampshadeHanging as the commentator points out]]) and dodging everything Joe throws at him.
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* After Joe fought Carlos, a TV network signed a deal with Joe to support him financially and in return have the exclusive rights of organizing and broadcasting his fights, including the eventual title match with Jose Mendoza. When they actually try with the latter, however, they find out something Joe learned in Hawaii: Yoko has the exclusive rights of organizing and broadcasting ''all of Jose Mendoza's fights in Japan''. Even better in the anime, as the network was specifically aiming to exclude Yoko from this and she outmanouvered them with embarrassing ease.
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* After Joe fought Carlos, a Kanto TV network signed a deal with Joe to support him financially and in return have the exclusive rights of organizing and broadcasting his fights, including the eventual title match with Jose Mendoza. When they actually try with the latter, however, they find out something Joe learned in Hawaii: Yoko has the exclusive rights of organizing and broadcasting ''all of Jose Mendoza's fights in Japan''. Even better in the anime, as the network Kanto TV was specifically aiming to exclude Yoko from this and she outmanouvered them with embarrassing ease.
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* The anime-only fight between Joe and Leon Smiley:
** Leon Smiley is a hell of an opponent, as shown by his ranking: #1 in ''both the WBC and WBA rankings''. He may be one of the boxers said to be scared of Carlos, but the fact he's the top contender for Mendoza and the other world champion shows he's a formidable boxer himself.
** The very fact the fight happens is one for Kanto TV: not knowing why Mendoza was avoiding them (both his deal with Yoko and the impending fight to unify the WBC and WBA belts) they decided to set up a fight between Joe and the other champion... And, knowing the same could have happened, used Joe's fame to lure in the one boxer both champions ''had'' to accept a challenge from so that Joe could take his place.
*** The plan lost some of its value a few days after, when the WBC and WBA announced the unification fight... But the two major boxing sanctioning bodies of the time considered it so good their announcement included the identity of the first Mandatory Challenger for the soon-to-be-crowned lineal bantamweight champion: the winner of the Yabuki-Smiley match.
** Leon Smiley is a hell of an opponent, as shown by his ranking: #1 in ''both the WBC and WBA rankings''. He may be one of the boxers said to be scared of Carlos, but the fact he's the top contender for Mendoza and the other world champion shows he's a formidable boxer himself.
** The very fact the fight happens is one for Kanto TV: not knowing why Mendoza was avoiding them (both his deal with Yoko and the impending fight to unify the WBC and WBA belts) they decided to set up a fight between Joe and the other champion... And, knowing the same could have happened, used Joe's fame to lure in the one boxer both champions ''had'' to accept a challenge from so that Joe could take his place.
*** The plan lost some of its value a few days after, when the WBC and WBA announced the unification fight... But the two major boxing sanctioning bodies of the time considered it so good their announcement included the identity of the first Mandatory Challenger for the soon-to-be-crowned lineal bantamweight champion: the winner of the Yabuki-Smiley match.
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** Made more awesome in the anime: in an interview Mendoza had made the VSign as a message to Joe, that everyone interpreted as a promise to win in two rounds. Comes the fight, and it's discovered he meant two ''punches''.
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** Made more awesome in the anime: in an interview Mendoza had made the VSign as a message to Joe, that everyone interpreted as a promise to win in two rounds. Comes the fight, and it's discovered he meant two ''punches''.''punches''.
* The manga has only one bantamweight champion, Jose Mendoza. The anime, however, specifies that Mendoza is the World Boxing Council bantamweight champion... And introduces the ''other'' champion, Karold Gomez for the World Boxing Association. And, of course, features [[CoolVersusAwesome the fight for the unification of the belts]].
** [[DoomedByCanon As the final fight was already decided to be between Joe and Mendoza, Karold Gomez is obviously doomed to lose]]... But he didn't become a world champion by accident, and he proves it by fighting Mendoza head-on ''on his same level'', for three rounds. Considering Carlos went down halfway during the ''first'', just that is awesome.
** The way Mendoza wins: [[LetsGetDangerous he goes all-out in the third round]], whipping out his devastating Corkscrew Punch and turning an equal fight in a CurbStompBattle.
** Another for Gomez: he took ''multiple hits'' before going down. [[spoiler:It got him killed due the devastating power of the Corkscrew Punch]], but it still proved that he was stronger than even Carlos Rivera.
* The manga has only one bantamweight champion, Jose Mendoza. The anime, however, specifies that Mendoza is the World Boxing Council bantamweight champion... And introduces the ''other'' champion, Karold Gomez for the World Boxing Association. And, of course, features [[CoolVersusAwesome the fight for the unification of the belts]].
** [[DoomedByCanon As the final fight was already decided to be between Joe and Mendoza, Karold Gomez is obviously doomed to lose]]... But he didn't become a world champion by accident, and he proves it by fighting Mendoza head-on ''on his same level'', for three rounds. Considering Carlos went down halfway during the ''first'', just that is awesome.
** The way Mendoza wins: [[LetsGetDangerous he goes all-out in the third round]], whipping out his devastating Corkscrew Punch and turning an equal fight in a CurbStompBattle.
** Another for Gomez: he took ''multiple hits'' before going down. [[spoiler:It got him killed due the devastating power of the Corkscrew Punch]], but it still proved that he was stronger than even Carlos Rivera.
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* After Joe fought Carlos, a TV network signed a deal with Joe to support him financially and in return have the exclusive rights of organizing and broadcasting his fights, including the eventual title match with Jose Mendoza. When they actually try with the latter, however, they find out something Joe learned in Hawaii: Yoko has the exclusive rights of organizing and broadcasting ''all of Jose Mendoza's fights in Japan''. Even better in the anime, as the network was specifically aiming to exclude Yoko from this and she outmanouvered them with embarrassing ease.
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* After Joe fought Carlos, a TV network signed a deal with Joe to support him financially and in return have the exclusive rights of organizing and broadcasting his fights, including the eventual title match with Jose Mendoza. When they actually try with the latter, however, they find out something Joe learned in Hawaii: Yoko has the exclusive rights of organizing and broadcasting ''all of Jose Mendoza's fights in Japan''. Even better in the anime, as the network was specifically aiming to exclude Yoko from this and she outmanouvered them with embarrassing ease.ease.
* At the Hawaii Mendoza has an exhibition match right with a boxer of a heavier weight class, one nicknamed the "Bull of Hawaii" for the strength of his fists. The match starts... And Mendoza puts his hands on the Bull's shoulders and ''[[NoSell takes his attacks without flinching]]'', just to prove Joe, that was in the public, that he, differently from what he and Danpei expected from a heavy hitter like him, was not a GlassCannon. Quite awesome, [[spoiler:even if it's a bluff]]. Then he takes down his opponent with ''two punches''.
** Made more awesome in the anime: in an interview Mendoza had made the VSign as a message to Joe, that everyone interpreted as a promise to win in two rounds. Comes the fight, and it's discovered he meant two ''punches''.
* At the Hawaii Mendoza has an exhibition match right with a boxer of a heavier weight class, one nicknamed the "Bull of Hawaii" for the strength of his fists. The match starts... And Mendoza puts his hands on the Bull's shoulders and ''[[NoSell takes his attacks without flinching]]'', just to prove Joe, that was in the public, that he, differently from what he and Danpei expected from a heavy hitter like him, was not a GlassCannon. Quite awesome, [[spoiler:even if it's a bluff]]. Then he takes down his opponent with ''two punches''.
** Made more awesome in the anime: in an interview Mendoza had made the VSign as a message to Joe, that everyone interpreted as a promise to win in two rounds. Comes the fight, and it's discovered he meant two ''punches''.
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* After Joe fought Carlos, a TV network signed a deal with Joe to support him and in return have the exclusive rights of his fights, including the eventual title match with Jose Mendoza. In Hawaii, Joe finds out from Yoko she has just got the exclusive for the tv rights and organization of ''all of Jose Mendoza's fights in Japan'' while everyone was looking the other way. Even better in the anime, as the network was specifically aiming to exclude Yoko from this and she outmanouvered them with embarrassing ease.
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* After Joe fought Carlos, a TV network signed a deal with Joe to support him financially and in return have the exclusive rights of organizing and broadcasting his fights, including the eventual title match with Jose Mendoza. In Hawaii, When they actually try with the latter, however, they find out something Joe finds out from learned in Hawaii: Yoko she has just got the exclusive for the tv rights of organizing and organization of broadcasting ''all of Jose Mendoza's fights in Japan'' while everyone was looking the other way.Japan''. Even better in the anime, as the network was specifically aiming to exclude Yoko from this and she outmanouvered them with embarrassing ease.
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** Joe's answer to Pinan making him look like a fool again: he promises to the public he'd win in the third round-and scores the knock out in ''twenty-nine seconds''.
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** Joe's answer to Pinan making him look like a fool again: he promises to the public he'd win in the third round-and scores the knock out in ''twenty-nine seconds''.seconds''.
* After Joe fought Carlos, a TV network signed a deal with Joe to support him and in return have the exclusive rights of his fights, including the eventual title match with Jose Mendoza. In Hawaii, Joe finds out from Yoko she has just got the exclusive for the tv rights and organization of ''all of Jose Mendoza's fights in Japan'' while everyone was looking the other way. Even better in the anime, as the network was specifically aiming to exclude Yoko from this and she outmanouvered them with embarrassing ease.
* After Joe fought Carlos, a TV network signed a deal with Joe to support him and in return have the exclusive rights of his fights, including the eventual title match with Jose Mendoza. In Hawaii, Joe finds out from Yoko she has just got the exclusive for the tv rights and organization of ''all of Jose Mendoza's fights in Japan'' while everyone was looking the other way. Even better in the anime, as the network was specifically aiming to exclude Yoko from this and she outmanouvered them with embarrassing ease.
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* When in Hawaii, Joe gets in a fight with a heavyweight over the advertisement for Mendoza's next fight including a reference to him "retiring" Carlos. The heavyweight is knocked down with one punch, and is visibly scared when it looks like Joe wants to continue.
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* When in Hawaii, Joe gets in a fight with a heavyweight over the advertisement for Mendoza's next fight including a reference to him "retiring" Carlos. The heavyweight is knocked down with one punch, and is visibly scared when it looks like Joe wants to continue.continue.
* Joe's first title defense, against Pinan, #3 in the OPBF rankings:
** Jose Mendoza shows up to greet the two combatants. Joe decides to take the chance to give him back a punch Jose had given him over his loud mouth... And Jose dodges and ''forces Joe to shake his hand''.
** Pinan is upset at Joe getting his title shot against Kim, and the belt itself, even when he was ranked lower, ''and'' Joe announcing he'd win it in the second round. How does he show it? By using his superior reach to put his left on his head and make him flail uselessly before punching him in the face and spending the rest of the round to keep him at bay.
** In the second round Joe has finally a good idea of the right distance and starts hitting Pinan-and then, Pinan knocks him down and gets the match to the third round.
** Joe's answer to Pinan making him look like a fool again: he promises to the public he'd win in the third round-and scores the knock out in ''twenty-nine seconds''.
* Joe's first title defense, against Pinan, #3 in the OPBF rankings:
** Jose Mendoza shows up to greet the two combatants. Joe decides to take the chance to give him back a punch Jose had given him over his loud mouth... And Jose dodges and ''forces Joe to shake his hand''.
** Pinan is upset at Joe getting his title shot against Kim, and the belt itself, even when he was ranked lower, ''and'' Joe announcing he'd win it in the second round. How does he show it? By using his superior reach to put his left on his head and make him flail uselessly before punching him in the face and spending the rest of the round to keep him at bay.
** In the second round Joe has finally a good idea of the right distance and starts hitting Pinan-and then, Pinan knocks him down and gets the match to the third round.
** Joe's answer to Pinan making him look like a fool again: he promises to the public he'd win in the third round-and scores the knock out in ''twenty-nine seconds''.
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** Another for Kim, given to him by their fight being part of the second anime made in 1981 without changing his birth date: he fought Joe when he was ''36''. Most boxers would be already retired by that point, and yet he was still going strong, gunning for the world championship, and ''challenged'' the infamous and much younger "Killer Joe" to take his place in the WBC rankings and go after Mendoza.
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** Another for Kim, given to him by their fight being part of the second anime made in 1981 without changing his birth date: he fought Joe when he was ''36''. Most boxers would be already retired by that point, and yet he was still going strong, gunning for the world championship, and ''challenged'' the infamous and much younger "Killer Joe" to take his place in the WBC rankings and go after Mendoza.Mendoza.
* When in Hawaii, Joe gets in a fight with a heavyweight over the advertisement for Mendoza's next fight including a reference to him "retiring" Carlos. The heavyweight is knocked down with one punch, and is visibly scared when it looks like Joe wants to continue.
* When in Hawaii, Joe gets in a fight with a heavyweight over the advertisement for Mendoza's next fight including a reference to him "retiring" Carlos. The heavyweight is knocked down with one punch, and is visibly scared when it looks like Joe wants to continue.
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* OPBF bantamweight champion Kim Yongbi has one in his first on-page match, where he inflicts a CurbStompBattle... On a ''lightweight''. For reference, in boxing a lightweight weighs between 130 and 135 pounds, while a bantamweight goes to 118 pounds at most... And yet, Kim is not only so superior to easily smack his opponent around, at one point he ''stands back to gauge the damage and see the better way to take him down''-assuming he's stupid enough to come back for more. He is, and Kim finishes him off with an uppercut-hook combo.
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* OPBF bantamweight champion Kim Yongbi Yongbi, also known as "The Boxing Computer" for his combination of power, precision and coldness, has one in his first on-page match, where he inflicts a CurbStompBattle... On a ''lightweight''. For reference, in boxing a lightweight weighs between 130 and 135 pounds, while a bantamweight goes to 118 pounds at most... And yet, Kim is not only so superior to easily smack his opponent around, at one point he ''stands back to gauge the damage and see the better way to take him down''-assuming he's stupid enough to come back for more. He is, and Kim finishes him off with an uppercut-hook combo.combo.
* Joe vs. Kim Yongbi for the Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation bantamweight championship:
** Joe enters weakened by a terrifying diet and in a condition of psychological inferiority after Kim told him [[WarIsHell his backstory]] (where almost starving to death during UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar was only the set-up for something ''worse'')... And yet, he manages to stand up to the champion, coming back after being knocked down again and again and fighting back, to the point that the Boxing Computer starts going tilt.
** In the fifth round Kim uses his special technique, the Chom-Chom, consisting in pushing his opponent to the ropes, punching them until they start falling, and then ''[[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown uppercutting them back up before they can hit the mat and repeat the beating and the uppercut until the referee realizes he's witnessing an attempted murder and stops him]]''. Every time he used it, he won the match, often hospitalizing his opponents and, in the anime, killing two. ''Joe rises to fight again'', [[OhCrap much to Kim and his manager's horror]].
** One for Kim: one of the knock-downs he inflicted on Joe was with the ''CrossCounter''. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Bet he got a kick out of it]]...
** Between the fifth and the sixth round, Yoko tells Danpei to throw the towel rather than risk Joe ending like Rikiishi. The mention of that name ''finally'' shakes Joe out of his funk, as while Kim went through a lot, including starvation as a child, Rikiishi and even Joe went through a near-starvation diet ''without'' being forced-[[HeroicSecondWind and finally gives him the fight of his life]].
** Before the fight, Kim and his manager had announced victory in the sixth round. In that round, when [[AfraidOfBlood Kim is distracted by Joe's bleeding]], Joe ''punches him out of the ring'', inflicting the champion the ''only'' defeat in his career.
** The image of Joe holding the title belt to the sky while Rikiishi's image appears behind him hints at the fact this is when Joe ''surpassed him'': both of them went through a terrifying diet to face a formidable opponent (Kim for Joe, Joe himself for Rikiishi), both won after an extremely hard match, but where Rikiishi [[spoiler:died due the injuries and the starvation diet]] Joe [[spoiler:lived]] and managed to remain in the weight class.
** Another for Kim, given to him by their fight being part of the second anime made in 1981 without changing his birth date: he fought Joe when he was ''36''. Most boxers would be already retired by that point, and yet he was still going strong, gunning for the world championship, and ''challenged'' the infamous and much younger "Killer Joe" to take his place in the WBC rankings and go after Mendoza.
* Joe vs. Kim Yongbi for the Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation bantamweight championship:
** Joe enters weakened by a terrifying diet and in a condition of psychological inferiority after Kim told him [[WarIsHell his backstory]] (where almost starving to death during UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar was only the set-up for something ''worse'')... And yet, he manages to stand up to the champion, coming back after being knocked down again and again and fighting back, to the point that the Boxing Computer starts going tilt.
** In the fifth round Kim uses his special technique, the Chom-Chom, consisting in pushing his opponent to the ropes, punching them until they start falling, and then ''[[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown uppercutting them back up before they can hit the mat and repeat the beating and the uppercut until the referee realizes he's witnessing an attempted murder and stops him]]''. Every time he used it, he won the match, often hospitalizing his opponents and, in the anime, killing two. ''Joe rises to fight again'', [[OhCrap much to Kim and his manager's horror]].
** One for Kim: one of the knock-downs he inflicted on Joe was with the ''CrossCounter''. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Bet he got a kick out of it]]...
** Between the fifth and the sixth round, Yoko tells Danpei to throw the towel rather than risk Joe ending like Rikiishi. The mention of that name ''finally'' shakes Joe out of his funk, as while Kim went through a lot, including starvation as a child, Rikiishi and even Joe went through a near-starvation diet ''without'' being forced-[[HeroicSecondWind and finally gives him the fight of his life]].
** Before the fight, Kim and his manager had announced victory in the sixth round. In that round, when [[AfraidOfBlood Kim is distracted by Joe's bleeding]], Joe ''punches him out of the ring'', inflicting the champion the ''only'' defeat in his career.
** The image of Joe holding the title belt to the sky while Rikiishi's image appears behind him hints at the fact this is when Joe ''surpassed him'': both of them went through a terrifying diet to face a formidable opponent (Kim for Joe, Joe himself for Rikiishi), both won after an extremely hard match, but where Rikiishi [[spoiler:died due the injuries and the starvation diet]] Joe [[spoiler:lived]] and managed to remain in the weight class.
** Another for Kim, given to him by their fight being part of the second anime made in 1981 without changing his birth date: he fought Joe when he was ''36''. Most boxers would be already retired by that point, and yet he was still going strong, gunning for the world championship, and ''challenged'' the infamous and much younger "Killer Joe" to take his place in the WBC rankings and go after Mendoza.
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** Joe's next match: his opponent, ranked #3 by the OPBF, got a few good hits early and knocked Joe down... Then Joe ''annihilated'' him with a flurry of punches that put him on the ropes, the referee called him away, started counting-and then called for a doctor.
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** Joe's next match: his opponent, ranked #3 by the OPBF, got a few good hits early and knocked Joe down... Then Joe ''annihilated'' him with a flurry of punches that put him on the ropes, the referee called him away, started counting-and then called for a doctor.doctor.
* OPBF bantamweight champion Kim Yongbi has one in his first on-page match, where he inflicts a CurbStompBattle... On a ''lightweight''. For reference, in boxing a lightweight weighs between 130 and 135 pounds, while a bantamweight goes to 118 pounds at most... And yet, Kim is not only so superior to easily smack his opponent around, at one point he ''stands back to gauge the damage and see the better way to take him down''-assuming he's stupid enough to come back for more. He is, and Kim finishes him off with an uppercut-hook combo.
* OPBF bantamweight champion Kim Yongbi has one in his first on-page match, where he inflicts a CurbStompBattle... On a ''lightweight''. For reference, in boxing a lightweight weighs between 130 and 135 pounds, while a bantamweight goes to 118 pounds at most... And yet, Kim is not only so superior to easily smack his opponent around, at one point he ''stands back to gauge the damage and see the better way to take him down''-assuming he's stupid enough to come back for more. He is, and Kim finishes him off with an uppercut-hook combo.
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* After drawing with Carlos, Joe cannot find an opponent in Japan. In the end Danpei manages to find one in Thailand, namely Usman Somkit, #5 in the OPBF rankings-but, [[OhCrap as Danpei finds out after signing the contract]], he's a former UsefulNotes/MuayThai practitioner who nobody has knocked down so far because his former sport [[MadeOfIron made him just that tough]]. Joe knocks him down, knocks him out, and [[MegatonPunch punches him out of the ring]], in ''[[CurbStompBattle one minute and six seconds]]'', with Somkit being unable to do anything about it. Especially after Joe started punching him so fast and hard he was keeping him ''lifted from the ground''.
** Somkit gets one in the anime before the match, when Danpei goes to see one of his training sessions... And finds him sparring with ''two'' opponents. And almost until the end he's actually showing his ability to dodge, not toughing up through their attacks until he decides to knock them out. Later Danpei tells he went through ''ten'' such rounds-and most of the times, his opponents couldn't hit him even as he went for the knock-out blow.
** Somkit gets one in the anime before the match, when Danpei goes to see one of his training sessions... And finds him sparring with ''two'' opponents. And almost until the end he's actually showing his ability to dodge, not toughing up through their attacks until he decides to knock them out. Later Danpei tells he went through ''ten'' such rounds-and most of the times, his opponents couldn't hit him even as he went for the knock-out blow.
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* After drawing with Carlos, Joe cannot find an opponent in Japan. In the end Danpei manages to find one in Thailand, namely Usman Somkit, #5 in the OPBF rankings-but, [[OhCrap as Danpei finds out after signing the contract]], he's a former UsefulNotes/MuayThai practitioner who nobody no boxer has knocked down so far because his former sport [[MadeOfIron made him just that tough]]. Joe knocks him down, knocks him out, and [[MegatonPunch punches him out of the ring]], in ''[[CurbStompBattle one minute and six seconds]]'', with Somkit being unable to do anything about it. Especially after Joe started punching him so fast and hard he was keeping him ''lifted from the ground''.
** Somkit gets one in the anime before the match, when Danpei goes to see one of his training sessions... And finds him sparring with ''two'' opponents. And almost until the end he's actually showing his ability to dodge, not toughing up through their attacks until he decides to knock them out. Later Danpei tells he went through ''ten'' such rounds-and most of the times, his opponents couldn't hit him even as he went for the knock-outblow.blow.
** Joe's next match: his opponent, ranked #3 by the OPBF, got a few good hits early and knocked Joe down... Then Joe ''annihilated'' him with a flurry of punches that put him on the ropes, the referee called him away, started counting-and then called for a doctor.
** Somkit gets one in the anime before the match, when Danpei goes to see one of his training sessions... And finds him sparring with ''two'' opponents. And almost until the end he's actually showing his ability to dodge, not toughing up through their attacks until he decides to knock them out. Later Danpei tells he went through ''ten'' such rounds-and most of the times, his opponents couldn't hit him even as he went for the knock-out
** Joe's next match: his opponent, ranked #3 by the OPBF, got a few good hits early and knocked Joe down... Then Joe ''annihilated'' him with a flurry of punches that put him on the ropes, the referee called him away, started counting-and then called for a doctor.
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** Carlos' manager Harry Robert claimed that Mendoza's easy victory was owed to the terrifying beating Joe gave Carlos in their final bout giving him crippling punch drunk syndrome. Late in the series it's proven that, while Carlos was suffering of some punch drunk syndrome due Joe's fists, Mendoza not only won the fight by himself, but [[spoiler:he actually won, and caused the crippling worsening of the punch drunk, with ''[[OneHitKill the first punch that landed properly]]'']].
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** Carlos' manager Harry Robert claimed that Mendoza's easy victory was owed to the terrifying beating Joe gave Carlos in their final bout giving him crippling punch drunk syndrome. Late in the series it's proven that, while Carlos was suffering of some punch drunk syndrome due Joe's fists, Mendoza not only won the fight by himself, but [[spoiler:he actually won, and caused the crippling worsening of the punch drunk, drunk with ''[[OneHitKill a single corkscrew punch]]'']].
** The anime actually shows thefirst fight. It consists in Carlos throwing his fastest punches without even coming close to land one, then the moment he prepares to use his hyperspeed punch Mendoza [[CurbStompBattle starts hitting him in the face without giving him a chance to resist and downing him twice before deciding Carlos had enough]]. [[TheDeterminator Then Carlos comes back for more]]... And Mendoza hits him so hard that landed properly]]'']].''Carlos rolls over himself as he falls and bounces on the ring thrice before stopping''. [[spoiler:That last punch is later revealed to be the Corkscrew Punch that crippled Carlos]].
** The anime actually shows the
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* After drawing with Carlos, Joe cannot find an opponent in Japan. In the end Danpei manages to find one in Thailand, namely Usman Somkit, #5 in the OPBF rankings-but, [[OhCrap as Danpei finds out after signing the contract]], he's a former UsefulNotes/MuayThai practitioner who nobody has knocked down so far because his former sport [[MadeOfIron made him just that tough]]. Joe knocks him down, knocks him out, and [[MegatonPunch punches him out of the ring]], in ''[[CurbStompBattle one round]]'', with Somkit being unable to do anything about it.
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* After drawing with Carlos, Joe cannot find an opponent in Japan. In the end Danpei manages to find one in Thailand, namely Usman Somkit, #5 in the OPBF rankings-but, [[OhCrap as Danpei finds out after signing the contract]], he's a former UsefulNotes/MuayThai practitioner who nobody has knocked down so far because his former sport [[MadeOfIron made him just that tough]]. Joe knocks him down, knocks him out, and [[MegatonPunch punches him out of the ring]], in ''[[CurbStompBattle one round]]'', minute and six seconds]]'', with Somkit being unable to do anything about it.it. Especially after Joe started punching him so fast and hard he was keeping him ''lifted from the ground''.
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* After drawing with Carlos, Joe cannot find an opponent in Japan. In the end Danpei manages to find one in Thailand, namely Usman Somkit, #5 in the OPBF rankings-but, as Danpei finds out after signing the contract, he's a former UsefulNotes/MuayThai practitioner who nobody has knocked down so far because his former sport [[MadeOfIron made him just that tough]]. Joe knocks him down, knocks him out, and [[MegatonPunch punches him out of the ring]], in ''[[CurbStompBattle one round]]'', with Somkit being unable to do anything about it.
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* After drawing with Carlos, Joe cannot find an opponent in Japan. In the end Danpei manages to find one in Thailand, namely Usman Somkit, #5 in the OPBF rankings-but, [[OhCrap as Danpei finds out after signing the contract, contract]], he's a former UsefulNotes/MuayThai practitioner who nobody has knocked down so far because his former sport [[MadeOfIron made him just that tough]]. Joe knocks him down, knocks him out, and [[MegatonPunch punches him out of the ring]], in ''[[CurbStompBattle one round]]'', with Somkit being unable to do anything about it.
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* After drawing with Carlos, Joe cannot find an opponent in Japan. In the end Danpei manages to find one in Thailand, namely Usman Somkit, #5 in the OPBF rankings-but, as Danpei finds out after signing the contract, he's a former UsefulNotes/MuayThai practitioner who nobody has knocked down so far because his former sport [[MadeOfIron made him just that tough]]. Joe knocks him down, knocks him out, and [[MegatonPunch punches him out of the ring]], in ''[[CurbStompBattle one round]]'', with Somkit being unable to do anything about it.
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* After drawing with Carlos, Joe cannot find an opponent in Japan. In the end Danpei manages to find one in Thailand, namely Usman Somkit, #5 in the OPBF rankings-but, as Danpei finds out after signing the contract, he's a former UsefulNotes/MuayThai practitioner who nobody has knocked down so far because his former sport [[MadeOfIron made him just that tough]]. Joe knocks him down, knocks him out, and [[MegatonPunch punches him out of the ring]], in ''[[CurbStompBattle one round]]'', with Somkit being unable to do anything about it.it.
** Somkit gets one in the anime before the match, when Danpei goes to see one of his training sessions... And finds him sparring with ''two'' opponents. And almost until the end he's actually showing his ability to dodge, not toughing up through their attacks until he decides to knock them out. Later Danpei tells he went through ''ten'' such rounds-and most of the times, his opponents couldn't hit him even as he went for the knock-out blow.
** Somkit gets one in the anime before the match, when Danpei goes to see one of his training sessions... And finds him sparring with ''two'' opponents. And almost until the end he's actually showing his ability to dodge, not toughing up through their attacks until he decides to knock them out. Later Danpei tells he went through ''ten'' such rounds-and most of the times, his opponents couldn't hit him even as he went for the knock-out blow.
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** Carlos' manager Harry Robert claimed that Mendoza's easy victory was owed to the terrifying beating Joe gave Carlos in their final bout giving him crippling punch drunk syndrome. Late in the series it's proven that, while Carlos was suffering of some punch drunk syndrome due Joe's fists, Mendoza not only won the fight by himself, but [[spoiler:he actually won, and caused the crippling worsening of the punch drunk, with ''[[OneHitKill the first punch that landed properly]]'']].
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** Carlos' manager Harry Robert claimed that Mendoza's easy victory was owed to the terrifying beating Joe gave Carlos in their final bout giving him crippling punch drunk syndrome. Late in the series it's proven that, while Carlos was suffering of some punch drunk syndrome due Joe's fists, Mendoza not only won the fight by himself, but [[spoiler:he actually won, and caused the crippling worsening of the punch drunk, with ''[[OneHitKill the first punch that landed properly]]'']].properly]]'']].
* After drawing with Carlos, Joe cannot find an opponent in Japan. In the end Danpei manages to find one in Thailand, namely Usman Somkit, #5 in the OPBF rankings-but, as Danpei finds out after signing the contract, he's a former UsefulNotes/MuayThai practitioner who nobody has knocked down so far because his former sport [[MadeOfIron made him just that tough]]. Joe knocks him down, knocks him out, and [[MegatonPunch punches him out of the ring]], in ''[[CurbStompBattle one round]]'', with Somkit being unable to do anything about it.
* After drawing with Carlos, Joe cannot find an opponent in Japan. In the end Danpei manages to find one in Thailand, namely Usman Somkit, #5 in the OPBF rankings-but, as Danpei finds out after signing the contract, he's a former UsefulNotes/MuayThai practitioner who nobody has knocked down so far because his former sport [[MadeOfIron made him just that tough]]. Joe knocks him down, knocks him out, and [[MegatonPunch punches him out of the ring]], in ''[[CurbStompBattle one round]]'', with Somkit being unable to do anything about it.
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** Carlos' counter for Joe's rope trick: he goes for an uppercut... That misses Joe and ''grabs the upper ring ropes, making them rigid and keeping Joe to use them to increase his uppercut's power, before going for the real, devastating attack.
** Joe's counter for that: feign using the rope trick, and when Carlos goes for the counter letting himself fall on ''the lower'' ring rope. The rebound is a most devastating Kangaroo Punch.
** The second anime cut the exhibition match... And replaced it with Carlos' secret move: a punch that uses all the muscles in the body to make it incredibly strong and ''too fast to be seen''. Up until the commentators pulled out a slowed recording, it looked like Carlos had been still while Joe was being hit by a streak of light...
*** Joe somehow ''seeing and blocking it''.
** The end of the match is a draw. ''Joe scored a draw with the WBC #6 bantamweight boxer''.
** Joe's counter for that: feign using the rope trick, and when Carlos goes for the counter letting himself fall on ''the lower'' ring rope. The rebound is a most devastating Kangaroo Punch.
** The second anime cut the exhibition match... And replaced it with Carlos' secret move: a punch that uses all the muscles in the body to make it incredibly strong and ''too fast to be seen''. Up until the commentators pulled out a slowed recording, it looked like Carlos had been still while Joe was being hit by a streak of light...
*** Joe somehow ''seeing and blocking it''.
** The end of the match is a draw. ''Joe scored a draw with the WBC #6 bantamweight boxer''.
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*** Carlos had announced he'd win in one round-and then corrected himself and said he'd win at the first ''minute''. Everybody laughed, until he delivered. The announcement was unseen in the manga, with only Danpei telling Joe about it, but the anime shows it: Yoko had summoned a press conference where Robert calmly announced Carlos would win at the first round, and then Rikiishi's theme song started playing and Carlos entered declaring he'd win at the first ''minute''.
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*** Carlos had announced he'd win in one round-and then corrected himself and said he'd win at the first ''minute''. Everybody laughed, until he delivered. The announcement was unseen in the manga, with only Danpei telling Joe about it, but the first anime shows it: Yoko had summoned a press conference where Robert calmly announced Carlos would win at the first round, and then Rikiishi's theme song started playing and Carlos entered declaring he'd win at the first ''minute''.''minute''.
*** The first anime makes the knock-out even more awesome by changing how Carlos annihilates his opponent: not with two crosses, but a single one [[spoiler:with the elbow]]. And the second ups the ante by changing the cross with an uppercut that [[MegatonPunch lifts Oozaki from the ring]].
*** The first anime makes the knock-out even more awesome by changing how Carlos annihilates his opponent: not with two crosses, but a single one [[spoiler:with the elbow]]. And the second ups the ante by changing the cross with an uppercut that [[MegatonPunch lifts Oozaki from the ring]].
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** Nishi having the humility and courage to try for the C-class licence rather than the B-class[[note]]In Japan, there's three types of boxing licence, C-class that enables to four round fights, B-class that enables to six round fights, and A-class that enables to all kinds of fights. An amateur can take the test for up to the B-class, the A-class being effectively a field promotion for experienced B-class pros[[/note]] Hoe had enrolled him for.
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** Nishi having the humility and courage to try for the C-class licence rather than the B-class[[note]]In Japan, there's three types of boxing licence, C-class that enables to four round fights, B-class that enables to six round fights, and A-class that enables to all kinds of fights. An amateur can take the test for up to the B-class, the A-class being effectively a field promotion for experienced B-class pros[[/note]] Hoe Joe had enrolled him for.
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** We were told that Nishi had grown stronger, and won his last few matches. He actually proves it by ''overwhelming Joe'' with his newfound speed and strength, to the point he initially compares it to hitting the punching bag.
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** We were told that Nishi had grown stronger, and won his last few matches.matches, enough to get the A-class licence (and remember, ''Wolf'' didn't have it, and Joe got it only when he beat him). He actually proves it by ''overwhelming Joe'' with his newfound speed and strength, to the point he initially compares it to hitting the punching bag.
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* After realizing Joe's weakness and seeing her grandfather is about to sell their gym, Yoko decides to take over the Shiraki Boxing Club, ''browbeats her grandfather into just giving it to her'' (also renouncing to a lot of money, as he was about to sell it), and, in the middle of a rainy night, has ''every single member of the staff come there to pretty much swear loyalty to her''. The Japanese boxing world has no idea what they're in for...
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* After realizing Joe's weakness and seeing her grandfather is about to sell their gym, Yoko decides to take over the Shiraki Boxing Club, ''browbeats her grandfather into just giving it to her'' (also renouncing to a lot of money, as he was about to sell it), it. In the anime the buyer was actually there and about to sign, and he too got browbeaten into submission), and, in the middle of a rainy night, has ''every single member of the staff come there to pretty much swear loyalty to her''. The Japanese boxing world has no idea what they're in for...
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** After that terrifying uppercut, Joe and Carlos go for a melee that ends with Joe punched out of the ring and Carlos down on the ring, the latter after being hit by his own special attack. And while he gets back up, Carlos is the one who got out worse for it, and would have likely lost had Danpei, in a moment of excitement, not given a small push to Joe while he was almost back on the ring, getting him disqualified. And as this couldn't end just like that, Carlos all but ''forces'' Robert to sign him for a match, the impending fight with Mendoza for the world title be damned.
** The first anime, as it had been canceled and had to end soon, united it with the second bout-and had Carlos counter Joe's rope trick: when Joe tries it again as a joke, Carlos demands he stays right there, then he charges with a swing, ''moves it out of the way of Joe's parrying uppercut to grab the ring rope'', and pulls Joe toward him to give him an uppercut, [[MegatonPunch punching him out of the ring]]. Joe comes back, but is literally saved by the bell.
** At the end of the second round, Carlos whispered Joe something. At the start of the third they charge at each other, hit each other with a punch, and start exchanging fists until the end of the round-and then they ''ignore the bell'': Carlos suggested they just started punching each other until one falls, and Joe accepted. End result: DoubleKO, and everyone rising in respect chanting their names.
* The full match between Joe and Carlos:
** Right as Carlos was demanding that Robert signed him for this, Yoko pointed out that, after this exhibition, Korakuen Hall, with a maximum capacity for "just" 1,800[=/=]2,000 people, is ''too small''-and, just for them, rents out Korakuen ''Stadium'', a ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korakuen_Stadium baseball stadium]]'' with a maximum capacity for 50,000 people. And in the era of TV, ''they fill it''.
*** This is also one for Yoko: until this moment the other JBC presidents thought of her as just a bored heiress that got lucky, but after she managed to fill a baseball stadium they realize she's just as good as them and start respecting her as a peer. They ''still'' underestimate her.
** The first anime, as it had been canceled and had to end soon, united it with the second bout-and had Carlos counter Joe's rope trick: when Joe tries it again as a joke, Carlos demands he stays right there, then he charges with a swing, ''moves it out of the way of Joe's parrying uppercut to grab the ring rope'', and pulls Joe toward him to give him an uppercut, [[MegatonPunch punching him out of the ring]]. Joe comes back, but is literally saved by the bell.
** At the end of the second round, Carlos whispered Joe something. At the start of the third they charge at each other, hit each other with a punch, and start exchanging fists until the end of the round-and then they ''ignore the bell'': Carlos suggested they just started punching each other until one falls, and Joe accepted. End result: DoubleKO, and everyone rising in respect chanting their names.
* The full match between Joe and Carlos:
** Right as Carlos was demanding that Robert signed him for this, Yoko pointed out that, after this exhibition, Korakuen Hall, with a maximum capacity for "just" 1,800[=/=]2,000 people, is ''too small''-and, just for them, rents out Korakuen ''Stadium'', a ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korakuen_Stadium baseball stadium]]'' with a maximum capacity for 50,000 people. And in the era of TV, ''they fill it''.
*** This is also one for Yoko: until this moment the other JBC presidents thought of her as just a bored heiress that got lucky, but after she managed to fill a baseball stadium they realize she's just as good as them and start respecting her as a peer. They ''still'' underestimate her.
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* At their sparring match, Joe knocking Carlos down-with ''16oz gloves''. He's also the only Japanese boxer to get Carlos serious.
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* The exhibition match between Joe and Carlos:
** Carlos fights seriously since the start... And knocks Joe down in ''five seconds''. He proceeds to knock him down once again before Joe can start moving and fighting back.
** Seeing Joe on the ropes apparently ready for the Kangaroo Punch, Carlos goes for a swing-and falls into Joe's trap: Joe first hits Carlos' elbow, deviating the punch, then uses the strength from hitting Carlos' swing to get the arm back on the ropes and use the rebound for an uppercut that [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom sends Carlos on the other side of the ring]].
** Carlos fights seriously since the start... And knocks Joe down in ''five seconds''. He proceeds to knock him down once again before Joe can start moving and fighting back.
** Seeing Joe on the ropes apparently ready for the Kangaroo Punch, Carlos goes for a swing-and falls into Joe's trap: Joe first hits Carlos' elbow, deviating the punch, then uses the strength from hitting Carlos' swing to get the arm back on the ropes and use the rebound for an uppercut that [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom sends Carlos on the other side of the ring]].
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*** Carlos had announced he'd win in one round-and then corrected himself and said he'd win at the first ''minute''. Everybody laughed, until he delivered. The announcement was unseen in the manga, with only Danpei telling Joe about it, but the anime shows it: Yoko had summoned a press conference where Robert calmly announced Carlos would win at the first round, and then Rikiishi's theme song started playing and Carlos entered declaring he'd win at the first ''minute''.
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** When Aoyama fought him, Joe was [[GoodOldFisticuffs refusing to use the boxing techniques taught him by Danpei]] out of spite at Danpei apparently abandoning him to train Aoyama. [[WeakButSkilled Aoyama went to the offensive and almost knocked him down immediately, before using his old tactic, further perfected with parries, to overwhelmed even Joe and win by TKO]]-and forcing him to not only use boxing techniques but ''copy Aoyama's''. And while Joe ultimately won, he fell down soon after being proclaimed the victor, as Aoyama hurt him ''that'' bad.
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** When Aoyama fought him, Joe was [[GoodOldFisticuffs refusing to use the boxing techniques taught him by Danpei]] out of spite at Danpei apparently abandoning him to train Aoyama. [[WeakButSkilled Aoyama went to the offensive and almost knocked him down immediately, before using his old tactic, further perfected with parries, to overwhelmed even Joe and come extremely close to win by TKO]]-and forcing him to not only use boxing techniques but ''copy Aoyama's''. And while Joe ultimately won, he fell down soon after being proclaimed the victor, as Aoyama hurt him ''that'' bad.
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*** A little part from the manga: even holding back, Carlos initially had trouble setting up the trap and make it look like he was losing, because ''he was just that much stronger''.
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* At their sparring match, Joe knocking Carlos down-with ''16oz gloves''.
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* At their sparring match, Joe knocking Carlos down-with ''16oz gloves''. He's also the only Japanese boxer to get Carlos serious.
** Carlos hitting Joe so hard to make his mouthpiece fly-again, with ''16oz gloves''. There's a reason he arrived in Japan as the #6 bantamweight in the WBC rankings and is said that everyone above him, including the ''lineal champion'' is too scared to face him.
** Carlos hitting Joe so hard to make his mouthpiece fly-again, with ''16oz gloves''. There's a reason he arrived in Japan as the #6 bantamweight in the WBC rankings and is said that everyone above him, including the ''lineal champion'' is too scared to face him.
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* At their sparring match, Joe knocking Carlos down-with ''16oz gloves''.
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** As required by the plan, Carlos holds back a lot, Nango, [[ThisIsGonnaSuck after initially being ready to get killed]], seems having the advantage... And then Carlos brutally drops him with two incredibly powerful punches [[spoiler:[[TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty followed by elbow strikes]]]], that he immediately plays as lucky punches, luring Harajima in the trap... And reigniting Joe's passion, as he's apparently the only one to have noticed [[spoiler:the elbow strikes]] and the sight just made him want to fight him.
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** As required by the plan, Carlos holds back a lot, Nango, [[ThisIsGonnaSuck after initially being ready to get killed]], seems having the advantage... And then Carlos brutally drops him with two incredibly powerful punches [[spoiler:[[TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty followed by elbow strikes]]]], strikes]] that only Joe noticed]], that he immediately plays as lucky punches, luring Harajima in the trap... And reigniting Joe's passion, as he's apparently the only one to have noticed [[spoiler:the elbow strikes]] and the sight just made him want to fight him.
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*** The secret weapon has an added layer of awesomeness: not only it's next to impossible to notice, but, as Yoko explains in the manga, even if the referee noticed [[spoiler:the elbow strikes]] he'd obviously think of them as an accident. This is actually shown in the anime: Inaba, one of the circus boxers and formerly the #3 featherweight in the JBC rankings, noticed them too, and explained it was ''obviously'' a lucky accident. Joe almost fell on his knees in awe when Inaba made him realize just how well it had been thought...
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* In episode 70 of the anime, Joe is in Sendai when Nango arrives for his match with Carlos, so, in a rare show of maturity, he goes to salute Nango and try to make amends for their previous enmity, only for Nango to refuse to talk to him and tell the foremen that were setting up the ring that Joe was just an amateur he had knocked out once and forced to retire, conveniently ignoring that in the anime version he had cheated. Joe calls him out-and [[CurbStompBattle quickly and brutally demonstrates how their fight would have gone had the referee been fair]].
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* In episode 70 of the anime, Joe is in Sendai when Nango arrives for his match with Carlos, so, in a rare show of maturity, he goes to salute Nango and try to make amends for their previous enmity, only for Nango to refuse to talk to him and tell the foremen that were setting up the ring that Joe was just an amateur he had knocked out once and forced to retire, conveniently ignoring that in the anime version he had cheated. Joe calls him out-and out to not punch him in the back-and [[CurbStompBattle quickly and brutally demonstrates how their fight would have gone had the referee been fair]].fair]].
** Two foremen take exception, and their swift demise gets everyone angry at Joe. He's outnumbered, cannot run... [[BigDamnHeroes And then Carlos runs in screaming out of nowhere and helps Joe mopping the floor with his attackers]].
** Two foremen take exception, and their swift demise gets everyone angry at Joe. He's outnumbered, cannot run... [[BigDamnHeroes And then Carlos runs in screaming out of nowhere and helps Joe mopping the floor with his attackers]].
