I feel like people are unable to be critical of this show probably bcoz of nostalgia and the lack of boxing anime
Coz IMO it's very overrated, like some people already pointed out, those gear would kill people if we talk realistically, like people already dies irl boxing with just gloves, and those are metals like wth
As for the story, nobody seems to noticed the rinse and repeat patern of Joe and his coach, coach wouldn't trust Joe for the entire episode, Joe or the kid will convince the coach somehow and the coach will pull a very heartwarming speech that this is it I am definitely trusting you Joe we gonna win everything sike, rinse and repeat, this happened like 5 or 6 times in a span of 13 episodes, when drama comes the coach will be back to not trusting Joe lol, it happened when their mafia boss suddenly backout and wants to sell the fight again, then when that war veteran and when Joe was about to get exposed as an underground sellout those are just the few examples of this rinse and repeat pattern with them
Another problem I have is when Joe is so happy to see the champion without his gear like what that contradicts with his whole personality, and obviously the guy lost I mean he almost die just by removing the gear
3/10 this is probably me being lenient just coz there's no hateable character here