it takes 40 chapter for Saotome to have her first serious fight, Satoshi also fight and gets absolutely beaten (because he's weak, and he must get stronger) Saotome opponent taunt her by saying her relation is making her weaker...

there isn't much else to say, it's a pretty standard romance/sport manga, the two are shy and it takes forever for them to do any progress and everytime an actual match happens, it's the usual "i must become stronger/put more effort for love" since it's a romance too

i'm surprised this manga isn't more popular among female boxing lover, perhaps it has to do with how masculine saotome is drawn, or perhaps by how very little fighting there is despite the premise or how cliche it feels at times

Saotome Teacher see this and hatch the perfect plan by assigning Satoru to become Saotome coach, the two can now secretly date so begin their secret romance, this panel of Satoru having wild fantasies about Saotome toned abs is hilarious Image

Saotome Senshu is a romance/sport manga about a girl called Saotome Yae who's the ace of the boxing club, she confess her love to this scrawny dude called Satoru but he reject her for fear of ruining her boxing career (and having to deal with her fans)

A few of the pages from the original Rival which have some relevance

last page with Umi being embarassed about what happened

Heisuke attempt to attack Umi but being a gentleman pervert pulls his punch at the last second, while still fooling around, he accidentaly slips and end up kissing Umi in the ring, ending the chapter i wonder how many followers of this acccount have had that sort of fantasy 😳

After some comedy non-sense with Heisuke getting beaten up, we get to the boxing match being a much skilled fighter heisuke take this chance to play around a bit with her that is truly the sort of clinch everyone here wishes to experience

Bangai Hen is a spinoff where the character are sent to ancient japan with Umi becoming a sexy ninja, however between all this nonsense, there's one chapter of Umi challenging Heisuke to a boxing match The chapter opens with Umi tanktop cleavage already setting up the mood

Chapter 485 also feature this naked fingerless gloves lady This had to be quite the popular manga because it got a sequel which also feature one scene of girl kickboxing in chapter 29

Karate Shoukoushi is a manga about a guy called Minoru, who get dragged in the world of karate after being rescued from bullies Despite this being a manga about karate, a bit of kickboxing happens later in the plot, so the author used this as an excuse to draw horny boxing pics