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The Champion Is Missing! is Round 1445 of Jōji Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo manga series.

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Summary

Kimura explains to Taihei and Kintarō that a boxer prepares and trains for a match where they put everything on the line against an opponent whom they thought about every day before the match began. He adds that a boxer has even more feelings before a world title match, as their opponent has everything it takes to satisfy them as they are the champion one wants to become, and now they might be able to become one. Taihei and Kintarō are unable to understand Kimura's speech. Takamura enters the Kamogawa gym and tells the group how a boxer before a world title match spends every day imagining what it will look like the night they become champion, thinking of only victory, picturing their selves as victorious and using that to sustain them through training. He asks everyone what they would do if their opponent wasn't there after all of that on the night of their promised match. Ippo thinks that Rosario has to show up, as it is too absurd to even accept. Yagi notes that sometimes one side spreads false information to throw the other side off, and that if it is a play, then it is effective. He adds that Rosario has already booked a round trip ticket and hotel, making it suspicious, and then there is the cancellation fee for the venue and refunding all of the tickets. At the Tōhō gym, the staff are worried as they still can't find Rosario, but tells Mashiba that it will be okay and that they will make it work somehow. Mashiba leaves the gym after telling them that everything is going according to plan as he is in top form and his weight control is fine. Mashiba does roadwork while only thinking about the world title. The next day, at the Monthly Boxing Fan, Fujii gets a phone call and is informed that Rosario is found.

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