Hajime no Ippo - Rising

[DarthEnderX]

Wiki says that in pro boxing you can challenge higher classes than your own, so you don't have to gain that weight if you don't want to. You just have to be good enough to beat someone who is bigger than you.

Ah, that takes care of that then.

So like I said, end of the series, Makunochi vs. Takamura. Because once Ippo becomes world champ, he's going to do the same thing. Start working his way up the weight classes.

Talented as he is, there's still a limit to what you can do.

Yeah, and in this series it's somewhere past "beat a bear to death with your bare hands".