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Eight Limbs, One Heart

The Count of Nine

Chapter 3 · free to read

Everything I had left went into six inches of bone.

The elbow was clean. The landing was not.

Double knockdown. In eleven years of watching this sport I had never once seen the count called on two men at the same time.

I got to my knee at eight. Getting to my knee is not standing. Nobody has ever told the referee that.

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