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Ricardo Martínez (リカルド・マルチネス, Rikarudo Maruchinesu) is the undefeated WBA featherweight super champion, as well as the No.1 in "POUND for POUND"^[vii].

His notable matches are against Engagement Eiji, twice for the WBA championship, and Makunouchi Ippo in a spar. He has defeated Alfredo González twice. Co-ordinate to Takamura Mamoru, the natural boxing talent that Ricardo possesses is immeasurable and otherworldly. Kamogawa Genji says that most take the road for the WBC championship to avoid facing Ricardo. Mexicans who don't recognise their political leaders know Ricardo's proper name. WBC champions aren't fifty-fifty considered the strongest in the world due to Ricardo's presence in the WBA.^[8] He is the human who gave Date his iconic scar.

i Background
2 History
- two.one Part I
  - ii.1.1 Revenge Arc
- 2.2 Role II
  - 2.2.1 A Passing Point Arc
  - ii.two.2 Go to the World Arc
- 2.3 Office Three
  - 2.iii.ane Sendō in Mexico Arc
  - 2.3.2 Ippo in Mexico Arc
  - two.3.3 Grim Reaper to the World Arc
3 Lucifer History
- 3.i Spar
- 3.two Successions
iv Appearance
v Personality
6 Boxing Abilities
- half dozen.1 Techniques
- 6.ii Weaknesses
7 Gallery
8 Quotes
9 Trivia
10 References

Background

A young Ricardo getting ready to fight Date.

He became a globe champion at the early historic period of 21^[nine], and as time passed he started to be known as the one who takes everything from those who challenge him, he made most who fought him retire, in some other mode he's the devil, "El Diablo". During ane of his kickoff defences as a champion, he brutally defeated the strong challenger at the time Date by the 2d round, which lead him to retire and sought for revenge always since.

In his homeland of Mexico, he got to exist known as a "National Hero" over time. During and after the match against Date amongst the oversupply of young children outside watching, one of them who has been living in the slums of that town really hated him but afterward a while, he started having him as his goal, as he truly understood the champion's reasons better. Following up a few years later after defeating Date, he faced Alfredo González every bit he rose in the rankings, twice in his subsequently defences In both of those times, he defeated Alfredo who was otherwise undefeated. Marking Alfredo's goal every bit 1 but, to go confronting Ricardo once once more in the time to come, for the third time.

He started to be known as an undefeated "Super Champion" and "Living Fable" effectually the world, remaining in the featherweights and the WBA for more than a decade.

History

Part I

Revenge Arc

After defending his WBA featherweight title 17 times, his 18th championship defence was to exist against Date Eiji, who he fought earlier. With the friction match approaching, Ricardo and his trainer and manager, Bill Stewart arrived to Tokyo. Ricardo requested to spar against the JBC featherweight champion Makunouchi Ippo at the Otowa gym. When the spar began, Ricardo outclassed him completely using only his left jab. Ippo failed to hit him fifty-fifty once or to modify his at-home expression. Subsequently Ricardo noticed Ippo was unconscious after easily defeating the Dempsey Roll with just his left, Ricardo cancelled the session and so equally not to hurt the pride of the Japanese champion.

Ricardo and Engagement face off at the press conference.

At the press conference between Ricardo and Date, the latter thanked the super champion for bringing the chugalug from Mexico to Japan for him, while Ricardo told the reporters to not expect much from the challenger. The two then shook easily after a tense face off. When information technology was time for his title defense lucifer, Ricardo arrived to the Ryōgoku Kokugikan. Upon arrival to the band, Pecker did not give Ricardo any strategies, but asking him to evidence Japan the true magnificence of boxing. When the match began, Ricardo was immediately hit past a left from Appointment and sent to the ropes by a avalanche of punches on his guard before Ricardo could get into his rhythm. Ricardo escaped and attempted to hit Date with a left, nonetheless, Engagement rolled the punch by turning his cervix. Ricardo then had an commutation of lefts with Date, with both unable to hit each other until they land a striking at the aforementioned fourth dimension merely as the first round concluded. In the corner, Ricardo intended to end the match in the 2d circular but equally he did seven years ago to show the power departure is even so the same.

Ricardo throws his first right of the lucifer.

Ricardo went with his plan by throwing his showtime right in the lucifer that missed, just left a big impression on Engagement and the audience. Ricardo'south pressure and feints fabricated Date step dorsum into the ropes. When Appointment escaped the ropes, Ricardo led Date into a corner and unleashed left body blows. When Date attempted to set on Ricardo back, Ricardo countered with a body blow. To Ricardo's surprise, Appointment remained continuing and fought back with a one-ii. Afterward repeatedly getting hit past Ricardo'south strong combinations, Appointment nonetheless fought dorsum, making Ricardo presume that Date has fought someone with punches equal to his own. The second round ended, and Ricardo then told Bill that he underestimated Date, and that he was bored of the same task, living simply to defend the belt, wanting to turn back to how he once was.

Ricardo blocks Date'due south Heart Break Shot with his elbow.

In the third round, Ricardo switched to his one-time style, which caused him to human action more aggressively, throwing off his challenger with unpredictable timings and brutally beating him. Ricardo continued beating him up to the stop of the eighth round, breaking three ribs and his jaw. In the ninth round, Ricardo saw a Corkscrew Accident coming for his head, making Ricardo guard high. The angle then changed for the Center Break Shot, however, Ricardo saw information technology coming and used an Elbow Block, breaking Engagement's correct fist. Ricardo continued beating Date until the ninth round was over. In the corner, Ricardo best-selling his duty is to remove the chance of a phenomenon happening for Date to zero, even if it meant that Date becomes an unfortunate accident.

Ricardo knocking out Date with a Corkscrew Blow.

In the tenth round, knowing that Appointment's could not use his correct anymore, attempted to counter an incoming left. The left was then pulled back and Ricardo was striking with a right. Date then lured Ricardo into a perfectly timed Heart Suspension Shot. All the same, the damage to his mitt prevented him from using enough power to stun Ricardo. Ricardo dodged the followup punch and and so striking Date with a Corkscrew Blow, knocking him downward as Ricardo vowed to never forget Date'south name and best-selling him as the opponent he respects nigh. The referee quickly ended the lucifer and Ricardo successfully defended his championship for the 18th time.

Role Two

A Passing Bespeak Arc

Ricardo fought an American in his 21st WBA featherweight title defence, winning and defending his title in the first circular by knockout.

Get to the Globe Arc

Ricardo received a telephone call from Alfredo González before Alfredo's match against Ippo, requesting for Ricardo reconsider a second rematch between them if he defeats Ippo. Ricardo, however, did not remember who Ippo was, as he does not remember every name of fighters he has sparred with. After the call, Bill reminded Ricardo that Ippo used the Peek-a-Boo Style, causing Ricardo to finally remember who Ippo was, wishing he knew and then he could have warned Alfredo to be careful.

Afterward, during Alfredo's match with Ippo, Ricardo ran into Lisa while he was doing his morning roadwork. He asked her if she was worried about Alfredo, noting Ippo's powerful technique and how Alfredo may have trouble. Although Ricardo knows how strong Alfredo is, when Lisa asked if he knew Alfredo would win or non, Ricardo suggested that she would be ameliorate request god.

Part III

Sendō in Mexico Arc

Ricardo going down for the first time in his career.

Afterward Alfredo won confronting Ippo, Ricardo's side refused to accept Alfredo's rematch asking, as they had nil to gain accepting a asking from someone that Ricardo had defeated twice. Later, Ricardo went to the Lucha Lucha Gym to host a public sparring session, requesting sparring partners. Subsequently defeating three sparring partners, Sendō Takeshi entered the gym, with Ricardo asking Pecker who he was. After learning that Sendō was ranked third in the WBA, Ricardo qualified him to be his sparring partner and requested him to step into the ring. Ricardo ordered Bill to end the match if there was trouble for him, equally he saw a certain something that swallows anybody around him, wishing to see that "something". The three round spar so began. Ricardo dominated in the spar for 2 rounds. In the heart of the 3rd circular all the same, Ricardo went down for the first fourth dimension in his battle career, with his knee touching the sheet by Sendō. Alfredo then entered the room shocked past the scene with Ricardo telling him to remember the sight well, as he deemed Sendō to exist the first man to score a down on him. Ricardo and then got upwards, not wanting to stay down for ten seconds. When Nib tried to tell Alfredo and the reporters that Sendō merely pushed Ricardo making him fall, Ricardo noted that the reporters don't even need pictures for proof as they know what happened with their ain optics: a tiger piercing his mankind.

When Ricardo noticed Alfredo was virtually to become into the ring the fight Sendō, Ricardo stopped them, suggesting to take the fight to a bigger stage. Ricardo told them to settle it in Mexico Metropolis in 3 months as a semifinal for his own title defence. In render, Ricardo offered to give the winner the right to challenge him in his side by side title defence. Sendō pointed out how pretentious Ricardo is for thinking that he is invincible that he would not lose in his upcoming title defence, claiming that Ricardo was undefeated because he had not fought him yet. This statement caused Ricardo to express joy, while thinking how amusing Sendō was for thinking "undefeated" does non equal "invincible" as he drove away from the gym. Ricardo did not answer Pecker's question as whether Sendō hitting him or non, concluding that he had not had this much fun in a while. Ricardo received data that Bill got from a reporter that both Sendō and Alfredo both fought Ippo in a roughshod match, with Date also being pushed past him every bit well. Ricardo noted how he had heard Ippo'southward name from time to time despite his earth ranking disappearing, as if the world revolves around the young Dempsey Roll wielder.

Ippo in Mexico Arc

Ricardo watching Sendō and Alfredo'southward match.

When the weigh-in for Ricardo's WBA title defence match arrived, Ricardo went to the Arena México, where he met with Alfredo and Ippo. The next day, Ricardo went to the Loonshit México and watched Sendō and Alfredo's lucifer in his dressing room. Before the friction match began, Ricardo heard Jose Nargo claim that Sendō's destructive power is the best in the world, something Ricardo admitted to exist jealous at. As Nargo was sure that Ricardo did not use his full strength against him, Ricardo summarised that on a scale of i-ten that a five is enough to knockout someone, while a x is overkill, and that one get build up one's or just throw out a 5. Watching the second circular, Ricardo saw that Alfredo has been attacking with a punching scale of one's, assertive it to not be a prudent pick against Sendō, equally he should have sent out everything. Watching the tertiary round, Bill mentioned how Sendō is a shining example of Machismo, which Ricardo holds appreciation to the discussion, and wished to do mitt exercise with Bill.

Later watching Sendō defeat Alfredo in the fourth round by knockout, Ricardo arrived to the ring for his WBA championship defence match against the former WBC featherweight champion, Billy McCallum. At the ring before the match began, Ricardo felt the oestrus that Sendō and Alfredo left, feeling apologetic that he isn't able to accomplish such heat, he hopes that McCallum will respond the loftier expectations that he has for him.

As the gong sounded, Ricardo went to the eye of the ring with McCallum, who charged to him and stopped in his tracks to brainstorm his rhythm. Ricardo threw the kickoff dial with a left jab, which hit McCallum'south Philly Crush cake. Ricardo sent out multiple left jabs, while McCallum continued to cake every attack until Ricardo threw his right. Information technology missed McCallum as McCallum threw a counter, which Ricardo also dodged. Ricardo was amazed past McCallum'due south counter, simply wondered if his matches are boring since he can predict every dial, making him never take a hit, feeling that he tin can't resonate with the audience. Ricardo reflected on how he is a human being like anyone else, and pondered why can't anyone run across his machismo. Ricardo requested for McCallum to come to him and fight, wanting him to bring out his inner strength. After Ricardo attacked McCallum with more left jabs that got blocked, Ricardo threw out a one-2. Equally McCallum saw the one-2 coming, he threw out a left counter, which Ricardo blocked while urging McCallum to reply his expectations. Ricardo proceeded to block McCallum'due south Flicker Jabs and prepared to counter McCallum'south right earlier McCallum stopped himself. Ricardo began hitting McCallum's Philly Shell block with rapid lefts, following him with more lefts as McCallum puts his back to the ropes.

Every bit McCallum threw a dial, Ricardo caught it before hitting McCallum's Philly Shell cake with more lefts. Due to Ricardo's attacks to McCallum'southward left arm, McCallum lowered his arm. Equally McCallum tried to throw a right, Ricardo hit his face with lefts until he went downwardly, with Ricardo disappointed that he again tin can not be tested. Equally the referee ended the match, the lucifer ended in Ricardo'southward victory. After receiving his chugalug and robe from his seconds, Ricardo left the ring as he pondered how he doesn't wish for fame and fortune, merely for someone to bear witness him how strong he truly is and to get closer to the heart of boxing.

Grim Reaper to the World Arc

Ricardo learning details about Wally from Neb.

Despite announcing to Sendō and Alfredo that he would give the winner between them the right to challenge him in his next championship defence, information technology was decided that, instead of Sendō, Ricardo's adjacent lucifer is confronting the third ranker in the WBA and a onetime Indonesian champion, Wally. Ricardo was informed by Bill of Wally's record and details of how Wally fights, forth with his likeness of boxing. Ricardo asked about his ane loss, and, when he heard it was from Ippo, he felt as if the wheel of fate revolves around the retired boxer.

Friction match History

Lucifer History
#	Event	Tape	Date	Opponent	Location	Time	Type	Notes
70	N/A	Due north/A	200X	Wally^[10]	Mexico	North/A	Due north/A	Due north/A
69	WIN	69-0-0	2000-01	Billy McCallum^[xi]	Mexico City, United mexican states	i(12)	TKO	22nd WBA Featherweight Title Defence
68^[12]	WIN	68-0-0	1995-07	Unknown ^[13]	America	1(12)	TKO	21st WBA Featherweight Championship Defense
67	WIN	67-0-0	1995-?-?	Unknown	Mexico	?(12)	TKO	Not-Title Defence
66	WIN	66-0-0	1995-?-?	Unknown	Mexico	?(12)	TKO	Non-Title Defence
65	WIN	65-0-0	199X	Unknown	United mexican states	?(12)	TKO	WBA Featherweight Championship Defence
64	WIN	64-0-0	199X	Alfredo González	Mexico	?(12)	TKO	WBA Featherweight Title Defence
63^[xiv]	WIN	63-0-0	1994-06-27	Date Eiji^[15]	Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo, Nippon	10(12), ii:14	TKO	"Revenge!" 18th WBA Featherweight Title Defence force ^[16]
?	WIN	?-0-0	199X	Alfredo González	Mexico	?(12)	TKO	WBA Featherweight Title Defence
?	WIN	?-0-0	199X	Unknown	Arena México, Colonia Doctores, Mexico City, Mexico^[17]	?(12)	TKO	WBA Featherweight Title Defense Alfredo watched the lucifer at a immature age.
7 Years of Unknown Opponents
47	WIN	47-0-0	1988-02-xx	Date Eiji ^[18]	Estadio Azteca, Tlalpan, Mexico City, Mexico^[19]	2(12), 1:12	TKO	2nd^[20] WBA Featherweight Title Defence
46	WIN	46-0-0	198X	Unknown	Unknown	?(12)	TKO	1st WBA Featherweight Title Defence
45	WIN	45-0-0	1987	Unknown	Unknown	?(12)	TKO	WBA Featherweight Title Match

Spar

VS Jose Nargo (many times)
VS Makunouchi Ippo 1R WIN
VS Unknown Mexican boxer WIN
VS Unknown Mexican boxer WIN
VS Unknown Mexican boxer WIN by TKO
VS Sendō Takeshi 3R

Successions

Preceded by	Title	Succeeded by
Unknown	WBA Featherweight Champion	Incumbent

Appearance

Ricardo has a dark skin tone, short blackness pilus, and a neatly trimmed moustache, which he grew late in his life equally he did non have one when he fought Engagement for the commencement time. He has a very muscular and toned build. Ricardo's eyebrows are of moderate thickness and has a nighttime gray eye colour. In the band, he wears black battle trunks with a white and gold vertical stripe on the side. He has the name "Ricardo" on his golden coloured name plate on his trunks.

Personality

Ricardo is a calm and taciturn private, choosing non to speak unless straight spoken to. When the media wants to speak with him, Ricardo speaks with his trainer (Bill Stewart) before speaking to the press and is shown to be a confident, but at the aforementioned fourth dimension analytical homo. Despite the assumption that a champion looks down on those with a lower ranking compared to him, Ricardo has ultimately shown respect to those who have earned it by pushing him to his limits (the only known person to accomplish this is Date). Considering of this, Ricardo won't even expect at any challenge unless said challenger is either the highest ranked contender, or their skills would impress him plenty to pique his interest.

Ricardo also has an easygoing personality that he occasionally shows. When Ricardo went downward for the offset time in his long career by Sendō,^[21] Ricardo did not seem to care despite many others making a big deal well-nigh the event, even claiming that he hasn't had that much fun in a long fourth dimension. Ricardo laughed at the thought that "undefeated" does not equal "invincible", finding Sendō agreeable for his beliefs.

Boxing Abilities

Ricardo is the near powerful featherweight in the globe. His speed, power, stamina, and reflexes are described to be otherworldly. His jab is notable for having no shoulder movement, making it impossible to predict. It is implied during his globe title match with Engagement that his punching power is on par with Ippo's. In his spar confronting Ippo, he proved capable of knocking Ippo unconscious in less than one round when he was the JBC Champion with but one title defense force, using only his left jab. He is even described by Takamura existence "out-of-this-globe" and on a totally unlike level, insinuating that his strength can't be measured because other boxers who challenged him have no idea of how stiff he actually is.

Ricardo's usual fighting style is stick with tight, efficient punches that quickly clothing opponents down and so hit a major left or correct ending the match. If pushed, Ricardo volition launch into his older tactics of launching wild, uncontrolled only devastating precise swings that will destroy the opponent's guard. Engagement learned this the difficult way when Ricardo broke ii ribs, shattered his jaw, and destroyed his right paw.

Before his fight with Appointment Eiji, Ricardo mentions that he "was fighting for his duty of defending the belt" and that his style was non a natural i. However, in round 4 of his fight confronting Date, Ricardo stated that he would fight in his natural style, a style possessing faster pace and rhythm that led to Appointment Eiji's downfall and complete retirement from boxing. Ricardo has no Sunday punch.

Techniques

Motionless Jab
Elbow Block
Counter
Liver blow
Torso blow
One-Pace Straight Punch
1-Two
Straight
Corkscrew Accident

Weaknesses

As of yet, no boxer has been able to exploit or reveal any weakness in Ricardo. When using a way that is not natural to him, he is on a level higher than any other boxer in the featherweight division, and in his natural style, he is capable of hands overwhelming the virtually skilled boxers. Despite many of his fights being curt, he does non announced at all drawn, fifty-fifty in the 10th round of his fight against Date.

It should be noted that because he didn't start off his second bout with Date in his natural style, Date was able to briefly overwhelm him.

Gallery

Main Article: Ricardo Martinez/Gallery

Quotes

"It would exist all-time, if you didn't await too much from this..." at the Press Conference - Round 330
"Non a trouble, I've levelled up myself, and then the difference remains the same. I intend to end in the side by side round." - Round 334
"There is no shame from falling before my body blow, because this has eaten through the abdomen of countless challengers." - Circular 335
"I detect this hard to believe, Eiji Date, simply in the 7 years since we last met...Could it be that y'all've come up a cross someone with punches that at to the lowest degree equal my own!? I cannot believe that in that location is such a boxer in the oriental region, only if that's non the case, and so there is no other explanation! Then it was climbing over the line between life and expiry that can let you to concur on through this." - Round 335
(Most Date at the end of the 2nd Circular) "I meet..y'all've become a formidable opponent." - Round 335
(In the corner afterward the 2d round) "I'll acknowledge that I took him besides lightly. Just seeing him reminds me...Maybe it's because I've go used to this 'Globe Stage' merely after a while I lost interested in living simply to protect the belt. I got tired of it. Perhaps it wouldn't exist so bad to return to how I once was...." - Circular 336
"In order for him to fall, the damage needed isn't to his body, but his spirit!" - Round 336
(After Ricardo block Date'southward Corkscrew Punch) "It seems yous had something left...but it's a pity, after a man's trump carte du jour has failed - he has nothing left." - Round 337
(After his coach questions if the match should continue in the twelfth) "Bill, this is boxing. There's no style to know what may happen next. Every bit long as a man stays continuing, there's the possibility of a miracle. My job is to lower that possibility to null. Until he falls, these fists will fight at full ability. Even if that means that Date Eiji becomes an 'unfortunate accident'" - Round 338
"Your speed and timing were perfect. Had your 'ability' matched them, y'all would have stolen my time. A pitiful end, Eiji Date. Had your correct paw non been broken, you lot would have sliced me downward...'The opponent you most respected?' is a question I become asked often, and from now on I will respond: He lives in a small country in the Oriental region. A samurai that I met in Japan!!" - Round 339
"We will probably never meet in the band once again..However I will never forget your name. Goodbye, Eiji Date!!" - Round 339

Trivia

Ricardo'due south style, demeanour, career and fighting power is based on retired former world champion Ricardo Lopez.^[22]
Ricardo'due south "Quetzalcóatl" and "Huītzilōpōchtli" nicknames are Aztec Gods, which are both sunday Gods in the Five Suns Aztec mythology.
- Alfredo González views Ricardo as the Quetzalcóatl, the Lord's day God, and his God of Death when referencing the Quetzalcóatl.
- When others reference him as the Huītzilōpōchtli, they mention how he is the God of Dominicus and state of war.
The first fourth dimension the term "Super Champion" was used in the anime in episode two, when Kamogawa states that he is watching a "dream match of super champs," in reference to a recent globe championship match he was watching.
- Although in the anime it seems like he may have been referring to Ricardo, in the manga, Yagi pointed out that Kamogawa was watching the Leonard vs. Hearns title lucifer.
Co-ordinate to the author, Ricardo is the 2nd-strongest boxer, behind Takamura Mamoru and ahead of Miyata Ichirō. On a poster in chapter 1269, Ricardo is the NO.1 Pound-for-Pound boxer.
Featherweights Sendō Takeshi, Randy Boy Junior, and Alfredo are the only known individuals shown to set Ricardo every bit a specific goal in their boxing career.
In chapter 175, Nakadai mentioned Appointment'southward friction match was Ricardo's kickoff title defense force at habitation. Only in affiliate 332 (folio 9), the journalist mentioned that Ricardo fought Appointment as his second title defence force.
- Although not officially stated past the author, Ricardo probably fought Alfredo earlier and after Date Eiji's rematch.

References

↑ Means "The Devil" in Spanish
↑ Round 1064, page 13
↑ Round 1309, page 17
↑ Round 1309, page 17
↑ Round 1309, folio 17
↑ Round 1358, page 8
↑ Round 1269
↑ Round 1310, page 9
↑ Circular 332, Page nine
↑ Circular 1358
↑ Round 1275
↑ Itagaki mentions his record is 68 Matches - 68 Wins - 62 KO's - 21 Title Defense
↑ Round 509
↑ Match Poster - 62 Fights - 62 Wins - 58 KO'due south
↑ Round 333
↑ Round 333 Announcer mentioned Ricardo defended the title for 7 years 10 months for 17 defences, meaning this is his 18th
↑ Round 1015
↑ Round 174
↑ Round 175
↑ See Trivia Bespeak
↑ Affiliate 1274, folio 18
↑ Volume 39'southward extra page

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