For the first time, Nakahara feels the weight of how naive he has been. Decades as a boxing trainer, decades of routines and gym walls, and yet only now does he catch a glimpse of the waters he is stepping into. The currents of this sport are far deeper, and far more dangerous than anything he has ever imagined.
He's spent most of his life as the coach of a small gym, nurturing fighters who rarely leave their local circuits. Only in the past two years, with Ryoma rising, does he begin to see what achievement could look like. And this past year, the reality of the boxing business; the politics, the unspoken rules, the networks of power, finally reveals its murky colors.
