After the match was over, it was the ceremony event. The host gave the championship belt to Sakazuki Kuzan and was explaining something to the audience when Kuzan stole the mic from the host and pushed him aside.
"Hello everyone. Do you like today's match", asked Kuzan?
"Yessss", cheered the crowd.
"That's good, then you will enjoy the next match even more. In today's match, I didn't use my full strength and leave the opponent but in the next match I will crush him, humiliate him, humiliate his family, his friends, his gym and destroy him completely", said Kuzan with a menacing look. Looking at that the crowd shuddered.
"Hayate Kenshin challenged our gym and defeated my brother with cowardly tactics. He made a joke out of my brother. I will do the same for you. After your match you will never be able to come to the ring ever again", said Kuzan.
Then he looked in the audience to where Kenshin was and said, "I heard your mom is a beauty and your family has a lot of beauties. What will happen if something happened to them? It will be sad. Are you going to come up or stay there like a scared mouse"?
The crowd went mad and started booing Kuzan. Everyone in Kamogawa gym was already mad but when he said something so personal about their friend they exploded and started rain down curses. Kenshin was so angry that he could start a bloodbath now but he stayed calm and said to Yagi chan, "Yagi chan after today contact the police for security detail and buy these things on the list".
After saying that Kenshin started to walk towards the stage. Others could see that Kenshin was calm but his friends knew that this was the calm before the storm.
"Is this Hayate Kenshin, the rookie who defeated 5th ranked boxer"
"Yes, is he going to respond"
"Who wouldn't. Kuzan's character is very awful"
"He may be the winner but he is not a real champion"
Like this everybody in the crowd was supporting Kenshin and booing Kuzan. Kuzan was angry at this but was happy because if Kenshin started a fight then he will be punished for his conduct by banning for at least a few months. He estimated that Kenshin's strength was not below his and he did not want to fight just before his world championship matches. He wanted to use this method to deal with Kenshin.
Kenshin reached near the ring then jumped from there and landed about 20 centimeters from Kuzan and steal the mic from his hand and looked into his eyes and said with an icy tone, "The next match will be your last match".
Everyone in the crowd was amazed by those words, by that jump, and by Kenshin's style. Everybody was amazed except Kuzan as he could fell the icy coldness of Kenshin's eyes. He knew that these were not the eye of a 17-year-old kid.
"Did you see that jump"
"Yeah… how could anyone jump like that… that's beyond human level"
"He is like as superhuman"
"Did you see the way he said those words"
"Yeah I feel like chills ran up my back"
"It looks like Kenshin is not a bit intimidated by Kuzan"
"He is not weak either, you can tell that by his jump"
The crowd began discussing loudly. Many people were amazed by Kenshin's ability to handle things.
"That brat handled things nicely. I was worried for a while there", said Coach Kamogawa.
"What are you, worried old man. If it were me, I would have punched that bastard", said Takamura. Aoki, Kimura nodded as they agreed with him.
"That's the problem. If he were to handle like that, he would have been in trouble. If you fight someone outside of the boxing ring, then there will be punished for that. And if Kenshin did that to Japanese Champ, then he would have been at least ban for few months. It also has been rumored that Kuzan's coach has arranged a fight with WBC rank 7th boxer in 4 months. And Kuzan must be training to fight him and didn't want to get injured before that match. SO Kuzan is doing this to deal with Kenshin without even having to fight. So that is why I said that Kenshin knows how to handle things properly", said Coach Kamogawa.
Everyone from the gym was amazed by Kenshin's ability. They had a new respect for him as it is difficult to remain calm in front of such humiliation.
The event finished and the crowd went home with the hope to see a nice match in the next month. The next day many people came to interview Kenshin. To which Kenshin ignored most of them except Fuji-san from Monthly Boxing fan. Many people only came here for gossip as they still don't have much confidence in Kenshin as he only had fought 1 match.
In between his training time, Fuji-san interviewed Kenshin.
"How confident are you for your next match, your opponent's strength is very high compared to your previous opponent", asked Fuji-san.
"Do you want me to tell the truth or something that you could write in your magazine", asked Kenshin.
"Let's hear both of them", said Fuji-san.
"Then he is very strong but in the next event I have at least 80% chance to defeat him, this should be something you could write. The truth is like that, In the next match I will try to break every bone of Kuzan and break his spirit so that he will never come out of the house", said Kenshin nonchalantly.
Kenshin said this normally with his calm face but it sends a chill down the spine of Fuji-san and his assistant. They somehow sensed a dangerous vibe that came when Kenshin said his last sentence but that feeling went away quickly. After that Fuji-san asked a few basic questions then went away.
The next day, the things that Kenshin asked to purchase came. From that day the time for which Kenshin came decreased but he came with many injuries. Seeing this many people were intrigued and wanted to ask what he was trying to do but couldn't ask. Takamura and the gang decided to tail Kenshin to see what was going on.
They saw Kenshin ran about 20 kilometers to move out of the city. Then went up to a mountain and stopped in front of a huge tree where 2 huge tires were tied to a tree branch using a rope. Then they saw, Kenshin removed weights from his arms and legs and the additional weight vest he was wearing, then wrapped his arms with bandages like in martial arts movies.
Then he swings the bigger tire using his hands. The tire swing very high and when it was coming down Kenshin quickly get into a blocking stance to block that. The tire that was coming down had a huge force that threw Kenshin a few meters back. This process continues for a long time. Takamura and gang were first amazed that Kenshin could even run after adding those weights in his body, then when they saw his crazy training they felt ashamed.
Kenshin who was stronger than them is training so hard but they were not even training half of it even though they were much weaker than Kenshin.
"The tire that he is using is about 500 kg and with such a high swing, its strength is really something", said Takamura. Then they returned to the gym and started training even more seriously than before. All the trainers and Coach Kamogawa began thinking 'what the hell happened to them'. (I am always saying they trained even more seriously because Takamura and gang trained seriously for a bit but they soon lose focus and went back to their old ways in a couple of days.)
Soon it was the day of the fight between Kuzan and Kenshin. In the month nothing major happened. Kenshin was now able to block the tire without even moving from his position.
Today's match is also going to happen in Ryogoku Kokugikan. There was only one match today but the seats were full. The capacity is 10000 but there are at least 15000 people in the stadium. Kenshin's parent also comes to watch this match. They were angry at the opponent who was planning to use a shameful tactic to fight with Kenshin.
Today's match was made very popular by the JBC. The news didn't think too much of Kenshin as he was still young but JBC believe in the potential of Kenshin, so the poster has Kenshin's and Kuzan's photos when Kenshin was warning Kuzan that this will be his last match. And below it was written "Champion vs Superman".
After a few minutes, the host came and greeted everyone. Then without wasting time he called, "From the Red corner we have Japan's super heavyweight category champion Sakazuki Kuzan with a height of 6ft 2in and weight of 260 pounds". The crowd cheered for him a bit as even though he has a bad character, he still is a champion.
The referee said, "Now, from the Blue corner we have the superman rookie who defeated 5th rank japan super heavyweight category boxer easily, Hayate Kenshin with a height of 6ft 3 ½ in and weight of 210 pounds".
Soon, the match began. But even after starting the match Kuzan didn't rush in as he didn't want to make a mistake like his brother. Kenshin also didn't move and silently waited for Kuzan to come. Kuzan was patience at first but he started to lose patience and went near and send a jab.
After the jab connected perfectly with Kenshin's arm, he sent out an explosive barrage of punches towards Kenshin's body as well as his face. Each punch connected well but he couldn't seem to break Kenshin's guard. Even after about constantly punching for 45 seconds, Kenshin's guard was still intact.
The crowd was were disappointed at first as they saw they were just standing there but they soon they saw Kuzan's relentless attacks they cheered but then they saw Kenshin's iron wall defense they cheered loudly.
Kuzan was getting tired so he put up a guard and went back. Kenshin took this chance and followed him. Kuzan's guard was up, so he didn't fear much. Kenshin went near Kuzan and shot a left straight at Kuzan's block. After receiving that punch, Kuzan's block was blown away. Kenshin didn't miss the chance and his left straight was followed by a right straight which broke Kuzan's collar bone.
Kenshin's brutal barrage didn't stop, Kenshin punched at Kuzan's joint bones, ribs, then lastly jaws and nose. The barrage lasts for about a maximum of 9 seconds but Kuzan became a meat paste by those 9 seconds.
After that referee came and stopped Kenshin but it was too late. The referee saw that Kuzan was unconscious and very badly injured, so he first called the doctors then he declared Kenshin to be the champion.