I remember that. But I guess I'm referring to maybe a "third" style. Ricardo was more offensive based, more hot-blooded when he was younger, and that comes out against Date and I think Wally too.
And the way Morikawa sold it was very understated. A little like saying, this is what I was before I was refined, and the majority of fighters were this.
That's why I said Ricardo's final hidden "style", is maybe something else. We see this rough evolution of the most superlative fighters in the series of being brawlers -> calculative and/or trained -> something like a sage mode where both are combined into one truly instinctive machine.
Morikawa is going out of his way to portray Ricardo as actually only being somewhere in the 2nd step. He's so good he's never had to go further, he's actually still thinking and calculating all his moves, defeating his opponents with cold logic and knowledge. Because his physical abilities, including his ability to think, is unparalleled.
Ippo is on the same path. He's close to the end of the 2nd step. Takamura already went beyond. He's the reason I'm fixing on this pattern.
I'm actually of the opinion that Morikawa believes everyone is on the path to the same thing.
