@greatninja3
He’s not copying Kaneda, though. A number of the fighters know to predict the moves of their opponent. Kaneda isn’t the first, just super specialized in it because of necessity. This was the entire reason why Gaolang was able to lock Agito into only doing boxing moves; Agito already admitted his lost in that area and tried to switch out, but Gaolang would force him into situations where boxing movements were Agito’s best choices and still countered him.
@SSJR2
I don’t think Carlos is a better boxer. He even admits as much in the end when he says Gaolang “outpunched” him. I, and at least a few others, were expecting since the beginning of this match that Carlos would beat Gaolang in punching and Gaolang would reveal he focused more in some other technique than punching because of his shattered fist. The opposite happened instead, with Agito casually mentioning that Gaolang overcame that injury and is still the best at boxing.
The hype over Carlos being a better boxer was just romanticism over him retiring before Gaolang’s time, just like the characters said last chapter. The “true” Carlos has pursued a different goal instead.