It's weird when you're reading a manga with 1266 chapters,and a nice portion of it feels like literal filler.At least the fight chapters,and flashback stories are worth it,but the drawn-out training for endless amount of chapters tends to put me off then later binge the manga months later just so I can read fighting chapters."The Author will be taking a break for research."Hmmm...🤔Better be research which damn direction he wants to go with this manga.Bring Ippo back into boxing or have it go out with a pathetic ending.Imagine the decades of readers that picked up this manga end up getting a total shit ending.I know I'll be pissed.I really want to see Ippo take on Ricardo Martinez,and even get his fight with Miyata.