Chapter 13 · free to read
Iran's right cover had ended four careers in three seasons. He did it inside the rules. That was the frightening part.
It cost him nothing. Six words to a man he had trained beside one summer in Tehran.
Somewhere in the first minute, the Iranian corner stopped raiding the open side of the mat entirely.
Third time in nine minutes. Always the same leg. Never once outside the rules.
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