It has been six months since the tragic accident in Joe and Rikiishi's fight. Joe believes he has overcome Rikiishi's death and decides to make a comeback. Joe does make a successful comeback by scoring 5 KO's by body blows. Joe is then given a shot at the national title as a means by the boxing commission to put him down. The champion, Tiger Ozaki makes use of Joe's habits and ends up making Joe's corner throw in the towel. Joe is afraid to throw punches at the face because of what happened to Rikiishi. Youko, Joe's love interest and the owner of the gym where Rikiishi trained at recruits a world ranked boxer from Venezuela, Carlos Rivera, to get Joe back on his feet and pursue his boxing career to the regional and world ranks.
Teruhiko Aoi
Jūkei Fujioka
Toshiyuki Hosokawa
Fumi Dan
Shiro Kishibe
Masumi Okada
Joe Yamanaka
Toshiko Fujita
Toshio Furukawa
Junko Hori
Michihiro Ikemizu
Hiroya Ishimaru
Osamu Kato
Kaneta Kimotsuki
Hiroko Maruyama
Tetsuo Mizushima
Akira Murayama
Gorō Naya
Shigezo Sasaoka
Fuyumi Shiraishi
Hirotaka Suzuoki
Yasuo Tanaka
Mikio Terashima
Noriko Tsukase
Kenji Utsumi