After watching the match, Volg became troubled as he could not read the Kōrakuen Station's train map to go back home. Later, Volg watched Date's title defence match. While watching Ippo's matches, Volg was impressed with Ippo's expression of happiness after every match, looking like he was having fun boxing, while Volg felt completely different. Suzuki's trainer threw the towel and begged the match to be stopped, but before they could stop Volg, he delivered a powerful combination that knocked Suzuki out, making Volg the winner and progressing him to the tournament's finals against Ippo.Īt the Otowa gym, Volg and Ramuda talked about Volg's chance of winning against Ippo, with Volg unable to come up with a prediction due to Ippo's power increasing after every match. The referee, noticing that Suzuki was no longer able to defend himself properly, attempted to stop Volg, but the latter shook him off and kept attacking. However, Volg began trading blows with Suzuki and quickly overwhelmed him. When Volg's match against Suzuki began, Volg appeared to have trouble against Suzuki when he was hit by a body blow. While walking to the ring for his match, he passed by Ippo Makunouchi, who Volg thought was the loser due to him looking so beaten up and realised that he would be his next opponent after Suzuki. Volg's first opponent was scheduled to be against the fourth ranker, Toshio Suzuki.

Volg using the White Fang, defeating Suzuki.Īs a third ranker, Volg signed up for the Class A Tournament, which caused three out of the seven participants to drop out by making excuses. Volg eventually took up professional boxing and moved to the Otowa Boxing Gym in Japan with a goal of becoming the world champion in professional boxing.Īt the Otowa Boxing Gym, the idol Kumiko Morita interviewed Volg, who revealed that he moved to Japan with the dream of becoming a world champion in professional boxing, using the JBC as his first step, claiming that he will take Eiji Date's belt. Eventually, grooming Volg into one of the finest and strongest fighters in boxing history, gaining many victories and no losses whatsoever, making Volg an esteemed amateur champion. Some time later he was found by Ruslan Ramuda, who discovered the hidden boxing talent in Volg and strove to bring it out to its full potential. On one such occasion he found a wolf and lamented on his own weakness, expressing his want to become as strong as a wolf to protect his mother.

Determined, Volg constantly found himself trekking to the nearest hospital. Unfortunately, his mother's ill condition and Russia's cold climate kept her bedridden and extremely ill. There, he lived with his very sick mother whom he adored and cared for very much. During his childhood, Volg lived in an area at the edge of Russia.

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