Hajime no Ippo New Challenger is the second season of Hajime no Ippo.
In his life all Ippo Makounochi did was help his parents with heavy labor managing the fishing shop. To make things worse, he get bullied in school, but he never fights back. He thinks fighting back will only escalate the situation and he will only get beat up worse.
In class, he has a crush on a girl to whom he could never build up the courage to ask out. Going along pretty much the same routine day after day, his life pretty much sucked.
However, one seemingly normal day, when Ippo was being bullied like usual, Takamura, a rising boxer in the middle weight division, sees the bullying and decides to help Ippo...
Only God knows what urged the usually careless Takamura to go down there and help out Ippo with the bullies. Once Ippo sees how Takamura dodge and practically beat the __ out of the bullies, a fire started inside of him. His dormant fighting spirit has started to awaken... And thus begin his journey to become the boxing champion of Japan... and the world!