"What about Ryouga?" Ranma gasped. "Surely he'd fight for her."
       "He never met her," Clarence shook his head. "Without you to look
for, he never had any reason to come to Furinkan or to meet Akane. He did
stumble through Jyusenkyo on his own, though, and not long after he stumbled
into Akari. They had two boys, three girls, and six piglets."
       "Six what?!?"
       "Just kidding."

	Or he could have met Pantyhose Taro.  He would have been confident enough 
in his own skills to really antagonize Taro when the met, and without Ranma 
driving him to improve, Taro would have been able to demolish him without 
breaking a sweat.  And if Ryouga stayed to form and made enough of a nusance of 
himself, Taro would have shattered his spine, puting him in a wheelchair for 
life.