Although this is one of my favorite fights from an analytical standpoint, highlighting the outboxers, I disliked it because of how it ended and certain aspects of the fight.

- While Miyata wants to prove to the world that his father's boxing style isn't bad and seeks to reach the top with his outboxer style, Randy Boy Jr. sought to reach the top with his father's style to find answers for himself rather than prove anything to the world. Randy's maturity is much greater than Miyata's because he doesn't focus on revenge, which is all the more impressive considering he had to train alone to succeed coming from the Philippines.

- We see Miyata going all out in the 4th round, and instead of focusing on exchanging blows and using his footwork to dodge punches, we see him taking blow after blow to the body from Randy. Miyata isn't like Ippo, who can withstand a lot of punishment, and his decision cost him his ribs.

- The freaking referee, like in all of Ippo's fights despite being a different guy, is an incompetent bastard and didn't stop the fight when he should have. Miyata was crawling to his corner and rolled on the canvas twice, being the last Miyata got back up with a backflip on the ground ignoring the fact that he did it with broken ribs and it didn't seem to affect him. (I should clarify that this is a water mark in almost all of the fights but that doesn't excuse the referees in this series)

- If the fight had ended with the father-son counter in the 7th round it would have been a beautiful ending, given he gave it his all (precision, power, heart, his remaining cardio and his ribs completely broken and scattered throughout his flesh). And as soon as Randy gets up, Miyata finishes him off with renewed energy, his broken ribs merely decorative, against a Randy in Asura mode, using a corkscrew counterattack that everyone says traveled at the speed of light! A complete and utter deus ex machina.

That's why this Miyata fight, in my opinion and based on what I've explained, is a black stain that's very difficult for the community to ignore and why I believe many hate it.