Unique Part
Marcus' opponent was a giant, it was even ridiculous, because Marcus was also big but that guy must have been easily over two meters tall, and he looked like he was in his twenties, even so my friend was not intimidated, both opponents were in the ring, the referee approached them.
-Listen to me well, as it is a fight for the license, no matter who wins or loses, we simply want to see your skills, you will wear protective helmets together with your mouth, for your safety, the gloves as you were told are 14 ounces, I want you to listen to me at all times, if you disobey me I will stop the fight and you will be disqualified, I want a clean fight, this fight will be a two round fight. Seconds out.
The bell started the fight, as it is a licensing fight, there was no name calling, as there used to be in professional fights.
Marcus went at it like a thirsty beast just like when he used to fight the bullies at school, he was half crouched down with his body leaning forward a bit, while with his gloves he protected his face, just leaving space to see, I think Marcus was a Peek-a-boo style boxer, his opponent who we will call the 'bully' because we don't know his name kept his distance with his jab, so that Marcus couldn't get close to him.
But as soon as the Bully missed, Marcus came in full force, clinging to him, and throwing a devastating right hand, which his opponent managed to cover with his defence, the bully kept throwing jabs, after a one, two, Marcus was taking the blows on his arm without any problem.
-Marcus will be fine, he's just taking hits.
-Marcus will be fine, he's just taking hits, he's not taking any hits that hurt him, they've all gone into his arms, he'll be fine Aki.
-Come on Marcus, squash him like a bug. - Asuna shouted heatedly.
Her shout made me a bit embarrassed, because even though there were few people, everyone was staring at us, and one or the other laughed.
Marcus gave a left again that his opponent dodged, and countered with a right straight to the face of Marcus, which had to have hurt a lot, he could not help but let out a gasp that was accompanied by the girls, even so Marcus did not back down, but the blow affected him because he began to move slower.
-Allez fiston, va au diable, ne te retiens pas, de ne pas être à ton niveau. -Said Marcus' mother, who was standing second next to his trainer.
I didn't understand everything she said, but she basically ordered Marcus not to hold back.
-Marcus lowered his defence which made him receive a jab and then a somewhat devastating cross, but the fist of the cross stayed in Marcus' face, he countered with an uppercut that hit the bully's chin, that pure first blow that Marcus managed to connect made his opponent go to the floor, the referee came in to separate Marcus and sent him to his corner, he began to count because he saw that the bully was resisting, and trying to get up to continue fighting.
-1...2...3...4...5.
The referee kept counting, the bully's legs were shaking, but he was already on his feet when the referee counted the number five count, but the referee kept counting.
-6...7...8...9
The bully raised his arms and put up his guard.
-Can you continue?
The bully said yes on the spot.
He brought them to the middle and gave the signal for the fight to continue.
Marcus went to finish their match, threw a powerful punch that landed squarely on the bully's guard, yet forced him back to the ropes with a single punch.
Marcus did not stop throwing punches to the guard of his opponent, the referee saw that the thing could end badly, and approached to end the match, but the bell rang before it did, let everyone back to the corner with their seconds, apparently for the moment would continue in a second round.
The three minutes of the first round went on forever, we were too nervous even though Marcus was dominating the fight, for some reason the girl who was from our academy was also a bit tense.
-Do you think Marcus is ok Hika, he looks really tired.
Aki was right, I don't think I've ever seen him like that in a fight before, but he looked exhausted.
His mother was talking to him in French, so fast that this time he couldn't understand her, but he didn't look very happy, his coach was telling him that he was doing well, but he should be more careful with his defence and his tackles.
-Seconds out. - said the referee.
Again the two apprentice boxers approached the centre of the ring, but something gave me a bad feeling, the bully was smiling.
-Let's have some fun. - Said the bully to Marcus as he licked his lip.
-Ouais. (yes)
The bell rang for the start of the second act, Marcus again rushed in like a stampeding elephant, he went straight for a punch, but the worst happened, with very fast footwork his opponent, slipped through Marcus's open guard and countered with a punch that sent Marcus to the canvas.
-I don't fall for the same trick twice, punching bag. -said the bully with confidence.
The girl from our academy, who was watching the fight so well, couldn't help but scream.
The referee had started to count the count, her mother was shouting for her to get up in French, her coach had the towel on one arm.
-I think we got ahead of ourselves even with Marcus, he still has another year to mature, we didn't have to ask for special permission because of his age.
-Don't even think about throwing the towel, putain d'entraîneur. - Marcus' mother said angrily.
-Come on Marcus, get up, I know you can do it. - I shouted.
-Marcus, you are the best fighter I know, get up. - shouted Asuna.
Aki was silently horrified to see our friend on the floor.
Marcus was trying to get up, but I could tell he couldn't, his legs were shaking a lot, the referee was approaching to end the fight, when he saw the damage Marcus had received.
-Marcus, I know you can do it, this is your dream, come on get up, show the weight of your fists. - shouted our unknown colleague from the academy.
Marcus, opened his eyes, something pulled him out of his mental heaviness, he got up on the spot, after hearing that last shout, he put his guard up, but his legs were still shivering.
-Son, you may continue.
-Ouais. - he gasped.
-Are you sure?
-Ouais.
-Go on. - said the referee.
Marcus slowly approached the bully, but he kept throwing jabs to keep the distance, when Marcus let his guard down a little due to fatigue, his opponent took the opportunity to send him a cross with his left arm, which he barely managed to dodge.
Marcus threw a right, but he had no speed, if it hadn't been for the bully's bad positioning, he would have received another counterattack.
His opponent started punching him in the body, but Marcus still didn't respond, until he let his guard down again, then the bully smiled again, he went straight for his head with a full force right.
But this time Marcus had intentionally lowered his guard, he managed to make him fall into his trap, he put his forehead to stop his opponent's blow, then with his right hand turning with his whole torso he hit the bully in the liver, which made his mouth come out of his mouth, the whole body of his opponent writhed in pain, Marcus without letting lose the opportunity that his opponent lowered his arms, he hit hard now the mouth of the thug's stomach, which made the body lean forward, Marcus was now going to finish with a hard punch in the face, to end the fight, but before he could do it the referee put himself between them ending the fight, and grabbed the thug before he fell to the ground.
Marcus was standing on the canvas, but at that moment he did not see my friend, but someone with the look of a wild beast who could not sink his teeth into his prey.
The bout ended with Marcus as the winner.
His mother came into the ring, I thought she was going to be happy, but she was scolding her son for the bad things he did in the fight.
The girl from the academy ran straight to the ring, she entered the ring and went straight to the bully, which confused me completely, because a few seconds ago she had shouted for Marcus.
Before Marcus got out of the ring, he said something that I couldn't hear because of the distance, but the girl turned around, after that Marcus bowed to his opponent and walked away with the help of his mother.
-I don't think I will be able to see another fight, I didn't like to see how Marcus was being hurt. - said Aki.
Asuna was also a little tense, because of the blood the bully had spat out when he was hit in the pit of her stomach, but this time she was able to restrain herself.
-I think I could get a taste for this, but I'm not going to lie that I was totally tense, but I understand you Aki, it's not a pretty sight to see, but if my friend wants me to come and support him, I'll come.