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Samuel’s wonderful wife, Odell, cooked for us all She owned the diner across the road froive in the special diet I was on, not this close to a fight She looked after us in a way a hotel never would Pretty rab fresh clothes
Kieran continued to spar with ether with Leon He was the nicest, gentlest guy I everwith hiht inches and built like an absolute fucking tank What he lacked in technique and footwork, he made up for in sheer blunt force trauet near me, and we could only spar for a few rounds before he’d worn hiht me, I felt his punch for hours If ever there was a lesson in staying fast, it was Leon Soft fucker was always the first one to stop and help h Made it kind of hard to hate the guy who hit you when he was so apologetic
Toht the fauysto the rhythm of the same tunes that kept us pumped Danny stillsit-ups They weren’t as ave h the pain
Like ht hook was famous, and Danny always letas much as I was Between hiht hand behindwith Leon Talk about a crash course in learning to lead with your left I moved faster and harder between four ropes than I ever had before Tying my hand was a risk It fucked with my balance, and there was no need to read , only where In five hard fucking days, I learned to lead with both arms, and the first time I spared with Kier after that, I was all over hihter He knewon whatfrom, and I knew then why they’d done it
As I helped Kier up off his arse, we both smiled Everyone did There was electricity in the air, like so The one statistically most likely to lose But that also made me most likely to surprise people I didn’t need people to love me or believe me I only needed it frouys, there was absolutely nothing that I couldn’t do
The only thingSamuel and Leon, and I could al Leonard and Deht before I went to bed So far she said the exa well I knew in Eift for math like I’d never seen before It wasn’t so much that she found it easy, it’s that she could see a beauty in the numbers where other people couldn’t Maybe it’s why she understoodsaw a beauty in the art of the sport, where others only saw violence
Every day the hole in er By Friday, the tension betanting less The fight was tomorrohether I was I ready for it or not
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Rest day was still spent at Southside I’d have gone crazy just sitting in the hotel roohts aliously, and so we all spent most the day holed up in a tiny little rooht I only hoped he hadn’t switched it up like I was going to
"How are you feeling?" Eht It was the last tiht
"Good," I told her honestly "Confident There’s kind of a buzz like there is back home You’d like it here"
"You probably won’t want to work out after the fight but maybe I could couys?" she suggested