This is getting so boring. There's a bunch of lame chapters, then a couple of amazing chapters, then the cycle repeats. Sadly, in the boring chapters, there's a bunch of important information so it's unskippable.
@Moonman94 To be honest, even if he did win in other games he never ended up winning an actual tournament. Just against a certain team the arc focused on. With these injuries even if they win against Kaido, I doubt they'd go to Koshien.
@Thanastar
I personally think it's just the MC gaslighting himself into thinking it was his fault when it really wasn't. It's something victims do. He wasn't necessarily seeing his mother's actions through her eyes. So the entire part with his mom being "pressured" was just his warped take on...