If there's no fighting allowed outside of the ring, where is the ring?
No, he didn't mess up. He won. These are his friends.
So basically it's not about his talent, but about his lack of talent for tact. For one of these, "I'm so awesome people hate me," kind of stories, it's a bit on the lame side.
Those colour panels are wasted on Akane. They only work if it's someone you want to see.
It's less that she's the kind of person who won't get hung up on something other people are too envious of, but more that she's too self-important to get that far.