Chapter 7 · free to read
A real card. Judges, a doctor, a scoreboard that works. I was not on it. I paid sixty baht at the door like everybody else and stood at the back.
Twelve fights. Twelve wins. Not one mark on his face — which in this sport is not luck, it is a whole philosophy of not being hit.
One minute forty of the second. He threw eleven strikes the whole fight and nine of them were the same left kick.
He does not counter. He does not feint. He makes you step where he has already decided the floor is, and then he kicks the liver out of you. And every single time, he steps to his own left — into where my dead knee has to hold.
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