"Ladieeeeessss and Gentlemaaann, Are you ready for the moment you have all been waiting for?"Â
The crowd cheers erupted the stadium that held over 250,000 people in it. There was a gigantic Jumbotron in the middle of the stadium that helped the viewers on the way top of the stands have a clear view of the martial arts ring that stood alone a lot more quiet than the crowd in the middle of the stadium.
The announcers wake-up call to the audience to prepare for the fight that was about to presume brought every single person in the stadium's attention to the two tunnels that the fighters would soon be walking out of. It didn't just bring the attention of the audience in the stadium as the hundreds of cameras turned their way towards the tunnels. The event was being live broadcasted to a record number of over a billion people.Â
"Over a million fighters from all over the world participated in this tournament that has lasted well over two years and today is the day the final contest for a champion begins, let me ask ARE YOU READY?!"
The crowds cheers got so loud this time that it had actually broken the world record for loudest stadium. People watching the fight inside their apartment on the other side of the city could even hear the cheers of the crowds and it even caused a couple people watching the fight inside the stadium to pass out from erupted noise. Medical staff had already been expecting something like this and were quick to respond.
When the announcer explained that over a million fighters from all over the world participated in this tournament, he wasn't exaggerating in the slightest. Over two years ago in the year 2030, a huge notice went out to everywhere in the world that a secret organization being funded by powerful people and world leaders would be holding a mixed martial arts tournament and that everyone was free to participate in it. The winner of the tournament was promised "Generational Prosperity." No one really understood what they meant by that. At first people found it very sketchy but when they saw that the hugest fighters in the world from famous fighting rings such as UFC, Boxing, and many more. The public opinion on the matter skyrocketed towards excitement from there on. Everyone with a dream of being at the top or just getting a chance to fight another good fighter brought in over a million people all over the world.Â
During the weeding process, fighters were flown and brought out to private fighting rings to find the top 1000 fighters of the bunch and from there on out, all of the fights were televised and live broadcasted to the whole world. Why people began to love watching these fights was because they held nothing back. They were extremely bloody and although no one has died, there has been some close calls. Many of the famed UFC fighters and Boxers didn't even make it that far in the tournament with many "no-names" beating them, and two of those "no-names" making it all the way to the final.Â
These obviously weren't people without a name, they were just people whose name hasn't been heard by the rest of the world yet. But the whole world knew these two people now.
"Good. Since the world and I can't wait any longer, let us introduce the main fighters for tonight's World Mixed Martial Arts Champiooonnshiippp!" The announcers voice echoed through the stadium and every TV screen.Â
All of a sudden the lights in the entire stadium turn off, leaving some of the audience to fall silent while others continued to roar cheers out. In one tunnel some dim lights erected through a thick fog barely lighting up the sides of the red tunnel.Â
"In the red tunnel, we have a fighter who mastered the fighting style of pankration at the age of ten and served as part of Greece's secret special forces unit before joining the world tournament. They say not to judge a book by its appearance but he is one book that you can judge just by looking at him. His scary demeanor and hardcore attitude even made the UFC Heavyweight champion of the world forfeit his match against him in the Round of 16. It'ssssssss Alexander Doukaaaassssssss"
From the lightly dimmed red tunnel figures slowly started to come out. First a camera crew, then the famed fighter. Alexander Doukas. He was a fairly tall man standing at a little over six feet. He had short, messy brown hair with a scar cutting across his nose stretching from cheek to cheek. The scars weren't just on his face either, as they embellished the rest of his body as well. Another distinctive trait about him was he had two different eye colors with one being grey and the other being brown. He was absolutely ripped with his muscles looking trapped inside his limiting skin. He was shirtless with only some boxing shorts with no brand endorsements on them as many of the "no-name" fighters had done to keep the tournament strictly about fighting. He had the same serious look on his face that he brought to every match and the audience had seen many times before, but even the audience could tell that his usual expressionless serious face looked slightly more angry this time.Â
"Alexander Doukas who claims to have never lost a fight before will have his final test of willpower today as approaches the ring with a slightly more angry look than he usually has on his face. The world has never been more on their feet for this match and it seems like Alexander has no intention of taking this match easy, What are your thoughts Dan?" The commentator spoke clearly and loudly for everyone to hear and turned his attention towards his co-commentator.
"Alexander Doukas has proved us in each and everyone of his fights, that he is a very well-developed fighters who can stand toe-to-toe with anyone he steps in the ring with. With his ancient style of pankration that combines boxing and wrestling, he is able to keep his distance with his fast jabs and hooks from boxing and if the opponent tries to get in too close to try grappling, Alexander shows perfection in the fundamentals of wrestling and with his strong body aiding his movements, he is an unstoppable wrecking train in the ring. Although the odds of the fight are leaning towards the other fighter, I believe Alexander is a once in a lifetime talent who definitely won't make this fight any easy for his opponent." The commentator gave his expert analysis on the matter until Alexander reached the edge of the ring.
The ring was in the shape of a square much like a boxing ring but it was about double the size but didn't have rope surrounding the outside. It was more of an elevated platform than a traditional looking boxing ring. There was stone carvings all along the platform too that read "World Mixed Martial Arts Tournament" and had the logo for the tournament also carved into the stone ring. The logo was of a battered and scarred human hand holding up a torch. There was a small stone staircase on each side in front of both tunnels for the fighters to walk up onto the ring on.
Before entering the ring, Alexander punched his own hand hard three times as he always did before a big fight. It was sort of a pregame ritual for him to pump himself up. Then he took his first steps towards the ring. The commentators had continued giving brief play-by-play of Alexander's actions and the crowds cheers were to believed to have reached new heights. The excitement for this final match was drawing closer.Â
"Alexander enters the ring and it seems like the crowd and my excitement can't wait any longer so would everyone please draw their attention to the Bluuueeee Tunnneellll!"Â
Just as it did before giving the crowd a sense of deja vu the lights in the whole stadium shut off. Soon after dim lights erupted through a thick fog but this time the walls were colored blue.Â
"In the red tunnel, we have a very mysterious fighter with us today. All of his matches were ended in one strike until he got to the quarter-finals. Then that is when he showed the world who he truly is. A crazy man who loves to fight, there is no better way to explain it. He seemed to toy with his opponents and would even seem to purposely drop his guard so he could get hit and test new type of limits. Give it up for the crazy fighter who goes by none other than... Nikoooooooo Draveeeeennnnnn!"