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Nolan and the One-Hook Day

1. NOLAN

 What a shit storm of a day.

Distilled angst, chain of events, cosmic joke funnel, harpoon of the gods.

I know as I sit near him that I will have to throw the best punch I have ever thrown; one with technique and violent finality. I'll have to lift up from the chair, slide it back as I tell him "I'm going for a piss", and deliver the perfect right hook that begins from my heel and gains muscle torque up the calf, thigh and buttocks. I'll pivot with it as I rise and all my years of practice should unconsciously find that sweet spot on his jawline. I have to throw for a kill.

One chance or else big trouble.

Even I know that you don't get into punch-ups with massive off-duty cops.

One knockout hook, and an expedient exit through the side door on the far end of that pool table. It has to be soon, before the after work crowd shows up and this shit-hole becomes witness city. Before the pork behemoth gets even nastier and I run out of time. You bet your ass the pig reference is intended; this guy has the face of a swine. Mammoth jarhead on a stump neck with beady red rimmed eyes and nose vascularity that bespeaks years of hard drink. His voice is gravel, whisky phlegm and flat hard, and his salt and pepper goatee has an ugly way of framing an unsmiling mouth.

Motherfucking pig, prick, douchebag.

 I guess we should backtrack some. My name is Nolan. You don't need the surname, so get over it right now. I work for a metal stamping plant, and we make mostly automobile fenders. The job pays well but the environment is a hell on earth; a gargantuan space lit by low sodium lamps that hang forty feet above the floor. Two-storey tall machines that thump and roar like monsters starved for metal and perhaps human flesh, and a long shift there with earplugs inserted and legs taking shock after shock wave is about as otherworldly a job as I've ever had.

Is it any wonder I amped up my mixed martial arts training and aimed at the UFC?

Lunch breaks at A.G. Simpson were hilarious, as the zombies filed into the cafeteria in various states of exhaustion, depression, hangover, debt, disillusion. Even there, with the long bank of windows that overlooked the main work area below, the fucking lighting was brutal. In your face harshness, bad food, a sickly mint green high gloss paint on the cinder block walls... I mean, no amount of overtime could justify my being there and ONLY there to make ends meet. I remember a painting crew that was hired to spray the ceilings and recoat the washrooms, and those guys were freaked OUT by the vibe. They took their breaks in the cafeteria too, cursing themselves for not bringing their own food to the job, bitching about the watery vending machine coffee, and more than a dozen times asking us "how the fuck do you stand working here?"

So, given my size and mindset coupled with a love for man-to-man conflict resolution, it was a no-brainer for me to embark on a little side action in the octagon. I started as a gangly kid with the amateur boxing and proved a quick study with natural power in each hand. Even with the headgear and twelve ounce gloves I was knocking people out cold, and sparring partners too. I always seemed to have that mean in me, but as lady luck, that rotten bitch, would have it... I was a "cutter". If I didn't knock his ass out in the first couple of rounds, sooner or later I'd be bleeding. Bottom lip, bridge of nose, and for a brief stint in the pro circuit, both eyelids. I was an undefeated slugger fighting out of a loser gym, punching for power and lantern jawed, but that goddamned skin of mine  pushed me toward MMA combat, and that was fine by me. I didn't like my fellow man as a rule, and most days, hitting him made more sense than conversation.

I started out lucky, through a cousin who was being trained in the Pat Miletich camp, and found myself under the tutelage of the great man himself. I could list details about the intensive training that mixed kickboxing and Jiu-jitsu, Pat's karate methods and a stripped down version of Thai boxing that seemed best suited to my power... I could talk about the first dozen fights in Iowa, all victories by knockout in the first round.

I was busting my hump at the metal stamping plant all day, training five nights a week, and taking fights for shit money anywhere they would put me. Eventually I was given an opportunity to match up against a name opponent, even though his career was on the downward spiral, and representatives from the UFC were ringside. That was one motherfucker of a highlight reel knockout, let me tell it. My six foot four two hundred fifty pound hammer was primed to drop and I don't mind saying that poor bastard was knocked out during the stare down. Stoked? Homicidal.

The first thing he attempted was a leg kick, and in missing, he presented me with a clean shot at his mandible. I saw his eyes go all wide and wild just as I uncorked a sweet left uppercut and felt that indescribable delicious shock of connection when it exploded on the sleep spot under his chin. He was out before his head bounced off the canvas, and even today the debate continues about what killed him; the punch or that heavy landing. My celebrations ended when I saw that he wasn't getting up, and by the time the stretcher arrived I knew it was serious. I won't lie to you. I won't say it chewed me up inside that my opponent died a week later. These are gladiators and they go into it fully aware of the dangers. Highly skilled, trained to the nth degree, all it takes between two combatants in that arena is a nanosecond of error and somebody's lights go out.

Permanent injury, career ending injury? Not common, but I wasn't a common hitter either. Maybe we can thank my father for that. Every opponent wore his face and I don't throw to win. I throw to injure.

I was told that a contract was being drawn up for me in the aftermath of that fight; that all the way up to Dana White's office, the name "Nolan" was being spoken as the next money magnet. Then that poor bitch died and the contract offer was postponed until the media hornets nest died, too. I was pissed, maybe even a little at myself, and for sure at the man whose physically abusive ways had forged the fires that shaped me.

Two weeks later, I busted up one of Miletich's top young prospects during a heated sparring exchange, and that was the end of my UFC dream. Back to the zombie show at A.G. Simpson I went, and no amount of prying from fellow workers would get me to talk about just how close I had come to fame and financial freedom. Fuck it, fuck them, and fuck dreams. That became my mantra, and I withdrew into a mean sonofabitch's shell. Nobody messed with me back then.

Well, not until I took on that part time gig as a bouncer at Bunny's strip club. That was where I met Sherry-Ann.

  2. SHERRY-ANN

  Here in the bottom of the barrel tavern, I motion to the waiter for two more pints and listen to the gravelly voice of the big prick sitting at the corner of the table. He's talking about his failed marriages, the failings of the judicial system, the failure of society to appreciate what he does for a living. Failure? I'll show the motherfucker failure. Then, as the waiter sets down two more pints, I hear off-duty pig's speech beginning to slur.

"You shoulda been a cop". He fixes his cold eyes on me, looking at my down-to-the-wood hairstyle and clean cut features. He's bitching about the career path and in his next beery breath he's pitching a sale.

"My woman wouldn't have anything to do with me if I was a cop", I tell his stump of a face while Sherry-Ann drops the needle down on some distant memory that plays a song of sex and rage. Pig-mug leers into his ale, and I glance down at the broad knuckles across my right hand, square and knobby and designed for pain delivery. I had been forming a fist as he bitched about his marriages, and now I force myself to flatten out the fingers on my thigh.

 You may have thought that Sherry-Ann was a stripper, based on my mention of the club where I watched the door and floor. Nothing against the girls inside who worked the laps for money, but I would never date a peeler. I fucked a couple of them when I first took the job because they were practically throwing it at me. These all-American clean cut features of mine would have been enough, but toss in some nasty scar tissue and my indifferent conduct, and it was shooting fish in a barrel time. I don't pretend to understand the mind of a woman, but there is a fundamental truth about their being attracted to rough men. They may not love us in a lasting way, but a lot of them want us between their legs.

My first weekend on the job, on the Saturday shift, this feature dancer "Savannah" kept taking her breaks in the entrance lobby, near the door and near me. Nothing wrong with my meat radar, and I knew where the harpoon was headed. This joint, "Bunny's", was a rough place in a nasty part of southside downtown. Blood spatter on the sidewalk out front was common, and in time a lot of it was extracted by yours truly in the doing of his job; I always thought it funny how these down and out motherfuckers could find money for beer and lap dances. How many of them had wives and hungry children at home?

Some of them came in looking for trouble, pissed off at the world, and I took pleasure when reducing their dietary needs to soup. The owner of the place didn't give a shit how we did our duty, as long as the money came in and the cops stayed away and the girls were kept happy. So, when Savannah finished her final three song set of the night, instead of taking private dance requests she asked me if I would join her for a drink. Rose, the owner, cleared it with "Night's almost over... long as you keep an eye on the room."

Savannah and I shared a small table near the entrance door, and she did most of the talking while I admired her rack and scanned the patrons. Her body language was nothing less than a carnal invitation, with those shapely legs spread and her hand coming up often to touch my bicep, forearm, knee. A vacant, giggling, augmented and needy blonde caricature.

Shift finished, I invited her back to my two-bedroom apartment for a few more drinks and some good hard fucking, but on the way out the back door I first saw Sherry-Ann and she laid a burn job on my mind. She was leaning forward to talk to a potential client through the driver side window, and I caught sight of long-honed legs flowing up into a tightly rounded naked ass calling to me beneath her hiked black skirt. Statuesque, easily six feet without the twat-for-sale boots, and when she heard the back door squeal open and slam shut she turned for a second to shoot me and my companion a hard appraising look. The street lamp threw a sleazy orb over her beautiful features, with that young Margot Kidder sneer, too much lipstick and tumbling waves of ludicrous wig-red tresses tickling the mid back.

Untamed; that was the immediate impression. Lanky and dangerous and maybe a little crazy, and the kind of bedroom ride that was sure to be a roller coaster. We experienced that intense time-stand-still-eye-lock and I felt the kinetic energy between us that stayed with me all through the next two hours of sex with Savannah. That final climax, doggie style with her face pushed into the back of my sofa and her hands braced against the wall... that was another woman's bird I was basting. A woman I was determined to meet at the next opportunity. I remember drama-Savannah's look of injury when I handed her cab fare at four in the morning and bluntly told her I needed to sleep alone. She tried to protest and I gave it to her straight - "We both got what we wanted tonight, and now it's time for you to piss off."

 "You really shoulda been a cop, I'm telling you."

I nod as if in agreement, look at the clock above the bar and realize that I'll have to do my thing soon. Sherry-Ann will be expecting me home from work, completely unaware that my day is an official shit-storm only beginning to hit the fan. The huge man sitting with me lifts the pint of ale to his mouth, still glaring my way over the rim, and I see his police-issue service revolver sitting snugly in its shoulder holster. The open front of his brown suede jacket, the bulging stomach, massive arms barely contained by sleeves, and a pungent body odor of sickening complexity.

This doomed fuck doesn't have a clue that I followed him here.

3. PARENTING

  A week after I first laid eyes on Sherry-Ann's lanky goods, I was on duty at Bunny's with a sense of excitement that I hadn't felt in a long time. The shift was uneventful, and when I went through the back door, there she was at the end of the block with another chick. I thought about walking over to her, but decided to roll up in my Grand National. It was a hot night and she was sweetly tucked into a pair of high-riding denim shorts and a tight red t-shirt with black boots at the mid-calf; straight platinum blonde wig. I saw her eyes move from her companion as I rode up slowly, window down.

What a fucking body. Built for cock of Nolan. I can't explain the power of the attraction, and I had never considered paying for sex even once in my life. She just had that sneer, defiance, youthful strut and a physique to match. I'll admit that I had a soft spot for the ladies of the night, because my mother had been one, and I hate on pimps and everything they represent. Sure, I had some Travis Bickle in me, and Sherry-Ann was my Jodie Foster.

"Looking for a date?" her upper lip curled at the corner, and then I could see her remembering me from the weekend before. She smiled as I stopped, and her girlfriend took a long look through the windshield before casually strolling around the corner out of sight. "Hey, I remember you, stud."

Long story short, we did a little negotiating and she got in the car. I drove around the block and parked in behind Bunny's near the fire escape and garbage bins. Very romantic. Turned out that Sherry-Ann was new to this stroll, and didn't fuck. She was oral only, and I had to wear a jimmy hat Her old man was a biker-type who also had a piece of the action in the very club where I worked; a few girls who took on after hours customers at his command. He'd taken a shine to his newest meat, and didn't want Sherry-Ann riding any cock but his. I was as stiff as a fucking girder when she started stroking me through the dress slacks, but when I tried to enjoy her tits she moved my hand away gently, bending to unzip me and set the crowbar free. As soon as she started rolling that goddamned rubber over the head I could feel myself losing the erection.

"This isn't how I want it" I told her flatly, and she froze, raised herself back up and looked me long in the eyes. I remember thinking that I knew her from somewhere, maybe another life, and for the first time in my thirty four years I felt that I wanted something intensely. Her. "I wouldn't mind grabbing a coffee somewhere for half an hour, for the same money, if that's cool."

We started that way, and for weeks I would take her to a seedy twenty four hour diner near her stroll, to learn about her life and tell her about mine. Both of us were survivors of violent childhoods, but her father was nothing compared to the evil piece of shit that was mine. Her dad was heavy into the booze, gambling, and spousal abuse. My father was the angriest most self-entitled rage-aholic in existence, and from my first childhood memories it was his fists that marked my growth.

That prick verbally abused my mother and took sadistic pleasure in kicking the shit out of his only child. As I grew into a large teenager, the beatings escalated in duration and ferocity. He never told me why he hated me, but I knew instinctively that my life had been an accident... a miserable wait around that cocksucker's reality. As Sherry-Ann and I shared these sad stories over coffee, we could feel a mutual caring develop between us, and I always had that sexual hunger for her.

In time, she trusted me enough to explain that she wanted to get away from "Roy", who was becoming increasingly demanding and violent. He'd brought in another girl from the bus terminal, and that was his new top bitch. Sherry-Ann had to start earning like the other girls, and when she told me that, I took care of the situation for her. I spent a couple of weeks in hiding, watching for this fucker, and quickly enough I was able to figure out his schedule. He'd roll around just after the sun went down, in a beat up blue panel van, and again after three in the morning to collect the pussy rent... I waited for the Thursday of the third week, told Sherry-Ann exactly what I planned to do, ignored her warnings and pleas, and when Roy showed up later that night for his money...

Nolan came out of the shadows across the street. Roy was in the driver's seat, window down, in conversation with one of the other girls and I casually walked around the back of the van to push his bitch out of the way with my right hand before looping a short left hook into the center of his face; it had brutal follow-through and Roy's head whiplashed before he hit the bench seat sideways. Two of the girls started running away, but Sherry-Ann stayed for the show. I yanked open the door and grabbed a generous handful of beard and long hair, pulled the semi-conscious Roy back to a sitting position. The blood was cascading out of what remained of his nose, down his shirt and vest, all over the money he had dropped into his lap. I gave him a good shake and his eyes rolled open, tried to focus, and before he could attempt anything I drove a hateful straight left into his open mouth, putting him OUT. I loved the sight of him sagging back to a lying position in a grotesque slow motion of jaw-hanging gore. "Sherry-Ann is with ME from now on" I shouted into the cab, and who knows if he heard it or not...

"Call an ambulance for this piece of shit, and let's go get your things." An hour and two pieces of luggage later, Sherry-Ann took refuge in my apartment. A roach-infested den of depression and about as dead end as it gets for a pretty young runaway of twenty three. We had sex for the first time that night; a two-way act of consumption that I won't ever forget. We felt like we knew each other far beyond those few weeks of talking, and her forthright way of telling me how to fuck her, how to do the things that she needed done, the way her sexy mouth formed a leering curve when she came so hard and violently around me. It would be a long time before she heard it, but when I called in sick the next morning, I was sure I could love her.

Roy? He hadn't seen what hit him. I heard that he lost most of his upper and lower plate, had to have his nose reconstructed, and a few weeks after that night he and his women vanished from Bunny's and the block. Sherry-Ann settled in with me, took a waitressing job, and we fell into a year-long calm spell... I had saved almost all of my earnings over the past eight years and we made plans to get a house together outside the city core. We had a friendship and the sex was ferocious, but there were hurdles to overcome. I helped Sherry-Ann quit the glass pipe, and she helped me open up.

 Which brings me back to this nameless drinking hole and the large man sharing a scarred wooden table with me. Brings me to a heartbeat of hate, and the day that marked the history of Nolan with a river of tainted blood.

 4. SHIT, MEET THE FAN

 A Friday that began like any other, with the five thirty alarm. Sherry-Ann's warmth against me under the sheets, and the new anticipation of weekend reward in my life. I gave up the bouncer gig at the strip club to spend weekends with my woman, and for the first time ever I had days to look forward to during the workweek. Long lazy mornings in bed together, watching television, having sex, lost in conversation... me, the short fuse with lots on his mind and little to say. Simple, beautiful hours.

That Friday I ate my breakfast alone then walked quietly into the bedroom to kiss Sherry-Ann on the forehead as she slept. Me, the guy who told himself he would never give a shit about anyone... she was asleep on her side, dark brown hair fanned out across the pillow. I ran it through my fingers to make myself believe again that this amazing change had come to my existence, and then left to make the half hour trip to the A.G. Simpson metal stamping plant. I first noticed the horizon of fire when I made the turn into the industrial park on Laird avenue; jet black smoke billowing upward to form the devil's cloud cover, licked from below by a massive wall of flame. I hit the gas and felt my guts sink into the comfortable abyss of my usual state of being, knowing what I was going to see at the end of the avenue, reaching for the radio as I saw the rows of cars lining each side and stopped by a phalanx of police cruisers, ambulances, and fire trucks. The all-news station was on the scene and I learned that a huge explosion had ripped through my place of employment, killing four workers and injuring dozens of others.

"Jesus H. Fuck!" I pulled over and parked on the strip of grass adjacent to the two lane blacktop, got out to watch the blaze. Co-workers either sat in their cars or stood around in groups, shaking their heads at the sight of the apocalypse before them. A couple of them acknowledged me with nods, but most of them ignored me. I told you before, people tended to avoid me and I like it that way. I asked a couple of the guys what they knew, and nobody had shit for info other than the explosion happened just before dawn. Fuck me, I kept thinking, there goes work for a while. Maybe for good if the place is gutted.

I went back to the car, sat and watched the show, and after a couple of hours it occurred to me that I should just go the fuck home to be with the only person I cared about before she went in to work her half day. All the way back toward the small house we were renting, my mind was in a fog that reminded me of the worst of times during my childhood. My sixteenth birthday, when the man who called himself my father arrived to take me out of school because my mother had overdosed on heroin. Waiting in the hospital as she fought her last battle, he found a way to blame me, and that night after her death the beating he dished out had me fearing for my own life. I fought him back for the first time, and even though I hurt that motherfucker, he got the best of me and I spent two days in my room bruised, battered, and determined to leave. Two weeks later, he went in to work the night shift and I escaped. Some day I'll tell you about those first few months... I did things to survive that no one should resort to. If not for my mother's sister, I wouldn't be here today to break deserving skulls.

A half block away from the house I could see a car in the parking pad. A rusty Pontiac Laurentian, dented along the passenger doors and crusted with dirt. What the fuck? I glanced at my watch and it came from the stomach up to my throat; a sick knowledge of a thought that I stopped from forming... without realizing it I was on the brake and slowing. Ten in the morning on a day I'm not supposed to be here until five thirty. She goes to work at twelve, comes home before five. I put the car in reverse and backed up to park against the curb about a dozen houses away from mine, killed the engine and sat in silence. I watched the car in the driveway, looked at the front of the bungalow that framed the inevitable act of betrayal that life had in store for guys like me. For the first time in nearly twenty years I didn't take immediate action. I couldn't, man. I was paralyzed with a cold sweating fear, choking on a feeling like being trapped in a plunging elevator. There was no rationalizing in the car that morning as I sat there watching and so certain that Sherry-Ann was in there destroying us with another man who was soon to pay a price beyond reason.

Almost two hours went by, in a blur, before I decided to leave the car. I strolled over to the house, slowly and not feeling anything I can describe. I was thinking about a movie that I'd seen called "Into The Night", where the main character played by Jeff Goldblum comes home early to find his wife screwing someone. As I walked between my place and the neighbour's, around the side to the back bedroom window, my mind went numb. I always knew that God had put me here in this body for a lifetime of getting fucked. Life is a better fuck than pussy. Life is a twenty four and seven joystick, motherfuckers.

Our bedroom windows bottomed at eye level. An air conditioner filled the lower section of the far pane, so I cupped my hands around my eyes and peered through the glass of the east frame... the blinds weren't dropped all the way down to the sill and I was able to make out the two shapes on our bed. The bottom of the bed faced the windows, giving me a clear enough look at his big legs and ass as he pumped his erection into her. I felt a scary chill of calm for a moment, watching his balls move back and forth as he rode that beautiful pussy and blocked her from my view through sheer bulk. The sight of her long naked legs, one bent upward and one straightened, and a small hand gripping the blankets... that started the tears and I turned away quickly to walk back to the car.

Those were the longest two hours of my life, longer even than the wait for news about my mother that afternoon in the hospital. I'm not a smoker, so I sat and chewed gum in silence, waiting and getting used to the idea that once again, the dream is over. Fuck life, fuck love, and fuck dreams. Welcome back to reality. You fell for a whore, asshole. She's been turning tricks on the side all this past year and you bought the Hallmark card version of what it should have been and isn't. Last Friday had been a good fucking day that lasted clear through until the following Monday, and THIS one is the end of the world as you know it. Job, woman? Fuck you. Gone.

 The bartender, myself and this half drunken off-duty pig, plus six others who sit at the bar on the far side of this shit-hole. Four hours ago I watched this man leave my house through the front door, as though it were his, and casually get into his old Pontiac. I gave him a decent head start and then followed him across town into the city core. He parked in front of a tired brownstone on the south side, got out and lumbered up the stoop past a sign that read "short term rentals available", and I parked further up the street and did some more waiting. Him first, her later. I couldn't believe it and yet it made perfect sense. I'd deal with him, then Sherry-Ann would get one chance to explain this to me. Just one. I turned to lean against the driver's door, stretched my legs out across the seats, flexed my fingers, and watched the front door of that brownstone. When I made the decision to stop waiting he emerged from the building wearing the same clothes, and I followed him to the fucking dive that now serves as the shit-storm epicentre.

I gave it fifteen minutes before I entered the nameless hole. It took my eyes a moment to adjust from bright afternoon to damaged liver gloom, and the smell of piss and old beer and sweat that hit me like a swinging back-fist. All eyes turned at my entrance, but he was hunched over a pint and facing away from the front door and was the only one not to see me come in. I went straight to the bartender and asked him in a low voice what "that guy over there" was drinking, ordered two pints, and walked the length of the room to his table.

I set the pints down in the middle of the tabletop and pull out a chair around the corner from his, and he looks first at me and then the beer. Back at me, eyes widening as I lower myself and bore lasers into his pupils. "Still a cop?" I slide one pint toward him and raise mine up for a good swallow. He doesn't answer right away, staring me in the face, sizing me up, lost in something... "YOU shoulda been a cop" he mutters. "I followed you here" I tell him right away, let it soak in for a moment. "From the place where I'm staying?" he runs a huge hand through his goatee and greying hair. "No, from my place... the factory where I work is burning today."

He nods slowly, looking down into his beer... "been looking for you, son."

"I've never been your son, mister. I have the scars to prove it."

"I heard you left the city to stay with your aunt for a long time... " his voice trails off in memory. "So you found out where I live, dropped by for a friendly visit, did you?" He smirks a little and I almost throw the bomb right then, but it isn't the right time... I'm throwing for a kill, remember. I play it like I don't mind that he found me, and of course he has no idea that I saw him fucking my woman... no idea that as I sit here getting psyched up to stop his motherfucking heart, my own has been smashed. "So here I am, sir. What can I do for you?" he smirks again.

And it goes like that for nearly an hour, as this beastly childhood force sits next to me and attempts to... what? Atone for something? Correct the damage that he inflicted on his only child? I sit here and listen to his talk about the difficulty of losing my mother, and the failed second and third marriages. I let him ramble through his anger, and I hear nothing but an older version of the gigantic negative force that took all of my potential and crushed it into a compact life-hating machine. I can't even come up with one iota of pity for this prick, and now it's Sherry-Ann I'm thinking of as I glance again at the wall clock and decide it's time. How she could betray me... us... like that, and with THIS of all monsters.

"Tell me something" I interrupt his self pitying rant about spineless judges. "How much did you pay?" He looks at me stupidly, one bushy eyebrow lifting. "For Sherry-Ann this morning" I raise my voice a notch. "What did that cost you?" His hand comes up with the pint as he says "I didn't pay" and I slide the chair back, start the hook from my hip as I rise and pivot to throw thirty five years of poison through my torso and shoulder and forearm and fist as a projectile unlike any I've ever unleashed. Instinctively aimed for his heavy jawline as he tries to react too late, jerking beer over the rim of his glass when I land it and envision my knuckles removing his lower face. The jolt of it through my arm is like an orgasm and he and the chair hit the floor as though a wrecking ball has swung into the tavern. I'm not even looking at the others in the room, and in one chain of events I squat to look at his hanging jaw and the teeth that he is pushing out of his mouth with a bleeding tongue.

The cocksucker is still conscious but the force of the hook has probably broken his neck. I've never seen a head swivel like that. I grab a handful of vest and start dragging him across the floor as the witnesses just begin to realize what has happened, maybe not even giving a damn in a place this rough. I drag the piece of shit across the floor and his face is hitting the legs of chairs, his arms are limp. The bartender yells "hey! take that shit out of here" and I feel a nasty smile crack my mouth. The door near the pool table has one of those metal bars on it that you push, so I lift up my prey with both hands and ram his face into it. Outside in the late afternoon sunshine I can see that his fucking head looks like a shotgun suicide, and his breath is heavy and blood thick. There's a big blue garbage dumpster around back, and I drag him face down by the vest collar, hearing his gun scrape along the asphalt, feeling the swelling along the top of my hand. 

I prop him up in a sitting position against the dumpster and step back to deliver a looping head kick to his temple. His skull whiplashes and he hits the parking lot on his right side. I feel myself nod in agreement, then finish him off with a short toe kick to the throat. From the moment I first hit him to the lifting and tossing of his body into the dumpster I have been outside of myself. I take one final look at his imploded features and spit on them, dropping the metal lid down on the fucking garbage.

Do you think the blades of the fan are now filled with shit? No. There's just one more detail to cap my Friday to end all Fridays. I drive back to my house, just ahead of rush hour traffic. My hand is swollen and cut where I clipped his teeth. My mind is a seething pit of rage and fatality. I don't care about a fucking thing at this point other than to have Sherry-Ann look at me with her gorgeous eyes and talk me out of this crescendo. Tell me it was a moment of weakness, of old habits dying hard... tell me what you have to but tell me everything will be okay.

I pull into the driveway, enter the house, and see that she is home early. Her purse and shoes and waitress outfit are all in the living room. The house is silent and I walk quickly down the middle hall toward the last room on the left where she is lying in bed with her eyes wide open and the belt from her bathrobe knotted up around her neck. My breath hitches in my chest. I turn on the ceiling light. The bedsheets are on the floor, the pillow case beneath her spattered in blood, the tip of her tongue is showing between bloody lips. I nod again in agreement with the universe. Nolan is getting cosmic-fucked now. How DARE I fall in love? Who am I to change what I am?

In an echo of my earlier gesture that morning, I bend over Sherry-Ann to kiss her forehead, then close her eyelids. No tears now. I pack one piece of luggage, turn off the bedroom light, and get into the car to head for the nearest automatic teller. I'll get a hotel room and tomorrow I clear out my savings. Nolan blows this town forever. I'm on a mission now, and before I'm finished people will know about me from coast to coast.

Every lowlife motherfucker in every shitty part of every city has it coming, and I'm the delivery boy.

[weareassassin]

The Assassin Class - Palladium Fantasy. Part 2.

Previously you followed me as I wandered down the character generation checklist for the Palladium Fantasy RPG. On my way to creating a version of The Magpie for the system.

As I went I mentioned that the Assassin Hand To Hand (HTH) skill was a big draw to the assassin class, but I didn’t say why.

In the Palladium system skills level up as the character does (fairly standard stuff). All the percentage based ones start with a base chance with a bonus per level. The ones that modify attributes don’t really improve much and you have to pick them again if you want to get the bonuses again. Weapon Proficiencies (WP) give different bonuses as they level up. One level you might get a bonus to strike (hit) and the next a bonus to damage, or an extra attack. But all these stack and they stack with all your other bonuses from weapon proficiencies. So if one level give you a +3 to parry, that’s parrying with everything. A bonus to damage is a bonus to all damage.

When it comes to HTH you get that but you get special attacks and other things that change the way that combat plays out. There’s even a whole game for the Palladium system, Ninjas and Superspies, that adds a bunch of mythical and real-world styles to the game engine.

The Assassin HTH was considered to be the ‘best’ HTH style to have and was the most difficult to get if you weren’t playing an assassin. Of course the assassin starts with it and can’t change (although later books do have additional styles, such as the Gladiator, that they can pick instead.

Fir the Palladium Fantasy version of The Magpie, I’m going to losely use the NPC write-up format as a basis instead of a character sheet. That way I won’t have to break out the drawing board and pen. I’m going to give you a 1st, 5th, 10th and 15th level versions of the character. Not just 1st and 15th.

The weapon stats are derived from the Compendium of Weapons, Armor and Castles, also published by Palladium Books, originally way back in 1981.

All that after the break.

Jay September-Magvyr.

Alignment: Aberrant. Hit Points: 26 S.D.C.: 23 Weight: 132 lbs. Size: 5′9″ Age: 19 Sex: Intersex

I.Q 22, M.E. 11, M.A. 14, P.S. 14, P.P. 16, P.E. 22, P.B. 15, Spd. 36

Disposition: Jay is haunted by the evil they witnessed at Castle Magvyr and is driven to see their father, Duke Magvyr, destroyed at any and all costs. They tend to quiet thoughtfulness but act explosively once their course of action is set. R.C.C.: Human O.C.C.: Assassin Experience Level: 1st.

Psionic Powers: Major Psionics. I.S.P.: 38. Bio-regeneration, Summon Inner Strength, Meditation, See Aura, Sixth Sense, Telepathy.

Combat Skills: Hand To Hand: Assassin. Attacks per Melee: 2 (Paired Weapons), otherwise 1. Combat Bonuses: +1 Initiative, +3 Strike, +5 Strike (Thrown Knife), +5 Strike (Sword), +1 Parry, +2 Parry (Knife), +1 to Parry (horseback), +1 Dodge, +2 Dodge (horseback), +2 Pull Punch, +1d4 damage (horseback). Special Attacks: Kick attack does 2d6 damage, Twin Strikes (roll once, hit twice; Paired Weapons), Strike or Parry two Targets (Paired Weapons), Strike and Parry (Paired Weapons). Bonuses to Saves: +14% vs. Coma/death, +4 vs. Magic/Poison, +4 vs. Horror factor.

Class Skills: Climbing/Rappelling 58%, Concealment 39%, Detect Concealment & Traps 43%, Basic Maths 68%, Pick Locks 51%, Prowl 43%, Track Humanoids 38%, Native Language 98%, Language #1 61%, Language #2 61%, WP Knife, WP Sword, WP Paired Weapons, WP Targeting, Disguise 43%, Intelligence 47%, General Horsemanship 48%/33%, Interrogation 38%, Surveillance 43%, Running, Acrobatics (Balance 53%, Highwire 41%, Back Flip 41%)

Secondary Skills: Land Navigation 42%, Wilderness Survival 43%

Equipment:  They are equipped with three Sgian Dubh daggers (+2 initiative, +1 strike, +2 strike thrown, 1d6 damage) a Dirk (+2 initiative, +1 strike, -1 parry, +2 strike thrown, 1d6 damage) on the small of their back and a rapier (+2 initiative, +1 strike when thrown, +2 parry, 1d8+2 damage) at their hip. They are wearing studded leather armour (A.R.: 13, S.D.C. 38) under a hooded cloak (with 7 concealed pockets). They have a couple of changes of clothing, boots, soft leather gloves, belt, bedroll, purse (with 200 gold), a backpack, a medium sized sack and 3 small ones. They also have a water skin, set of lock picks, 50′ of rope, a grappling hook, 5 iron spikes, a small hammer, a pocket mirror and a tinderbox.

Background: This is Jay having escaped from Castle Magvyr and first making their way in the world. 

Jay September-Magvyr.

Alignment: Aberrant. Hit Points: 46 S.D.C.: 23 Weight: 132 lbs. Size: 5′9″ Age: 30 Sex: Intersex

I.Q 22, M.E. 11, M.A. 14, P.S. 14, P.P. 16, P.E. 22, P.B. 15, Spd. 36

Disposition: Jay is driven by their quest, but not so much that they are incapable of diversions. Everywhere they go they find echoes of Magvyr’s evil. Every time they find that they cannot turn away from eradicating it. They can be a little intense and “edgy”. Octavia mocks them for it. They circle problems, looking for a weak spot, before striking. R.C.C.: Human O.C.C.: Assassin Experience Level: 5th.

Psionic Powers: Major Psionics. I.S.P.: 59. Bio-regeneration, Summon Inner Strength, Meditation, See Aura, Sixth Sense, Telepathy.

Combat Skills: Hand To Hand: Assassin. Attacks per Melee: 6 (Paired Weapons), otherwise 5. Combat Bonuses: +1 Initiative, +3 Strike, +8 Strike (Thrown Knife), +5 Strike (Knife), +6 Strike (Sword), +3 Strike (Thrown Sword), +1 Parry, +3 Parry (Knife), +3 Parry (Sword), +1 to Parry (horseback), +1 Dodge, +2 Dodge (horseback), +5 Pull Punch, +3 Roll with Punch, +1D4 damage (horseback) +4 Damage, +4 Disarm. Special Attacks: Kick attack does 2d6 damage, Twin Strikes (roll once, hit twice; Paired Weapons), Strike or Parry two Targets (Paired Weapons), Strike and Parry (Paired Weapons). Bonuses to Saves: +14% vs. Coma/death, +4 vs. Magic/Poison, +4 vs. Horror factor.

Class Skills: Climbing/Rappelling 78%, Concealment 59%, Detect Concealment & Traps 63%, Basic Maths 88%, Pick Locks 71%, Prowl 63%, Track Humanoids 58%, Native Language 98%, Language #1 81%, Language #2 81%, WP Knife, WP Sword, WP Paired Weapons, WP Targeting, Disguise 63%, Intelligence 63%, General Horsemanship 68%/53%, Interrogation 58%, Surveillance 63%, Running, Acrobatics (Balance 73%, Highwire 53%, Back Flip 61%), Streetwise 50%.

Secondary Skills: Land Navigation 58%, Wilderness Survival 63%, Literacy 63%.

Equipment:   They are equipped with three Sgian Dubh daggers (+2 initiative, +1 strike, +2 strike thrown, 1d6 damage) the rune-dagger “Blood Feud” (+2 initiative, +2 strike, +4 strike thrown, 4d6 damage; double damage to the wielder’s blood relatives. Aberrant alignment. I.Q. 9), a knife shaped like a Kukri at the small of their back (+2 initiative, +1 strike, +2 strike thrown, 1d6+2 damage) at the small of their back and a rapier (+2 initiative, +1 strike when thrown, +2 parry, 1d8+2 damage) at their hip. They are wearing a different set of studded leather armour (A.R.: 13, S.D.C. 38), which is enchanted as to be weightless. Over this they have a new hooded cloak (with only 6 concealed pockets). They have a couple of changes of clothing, boots, soft leather gloves, belt, bedroll, purse (with over 1000 gold), a backpack, a medium sized sack and 3 small ones. They also still have a water skin, set of lock picks, 50′ of rope, a grappling hook, 4 iron spikes, a small hammer, a pocket mirror and a tinderbox.

Background: Jay has gathered a group of like minded individuals under the guidance of Sage Bide. Including Jay’s youngest sister, Octavia. Together they will slay Duke Magvyr with the rune dagger “Blood Feud” and destroyed his hellish castle. Only Jay and Octavia will survive to tell of it. 

During this time Jay has become literate (Literacy) and gained a familiarity with the world’s seedier underbelly (Streetwise). 

The Magpie Jay September-Magvyr.

Alignment: Aberrant. Hit Points: 68 S.D.C.: 30 Weight: 132 lbs. Size: 5′9″ Age: 45 Sex: Intersex

I.Q 22, M.E. 11, M.A. 14, P.S. 16, P.P. 16, P.E. 23, P.B. 15, Spd. 36

Disposition: The closest thing Jay has ever had to a true love sits on the Imperial Throne. The only thing that they can be is her Left Hand. Still quiet and thoughtful; secretive and hidden, they prefer the indirect approach to resolving situations. R.C.C.: ‘Human’ O.C.C.: Assassin Experience Level: 10th.

Psionic Powers: Major Psionics. I.S.P.: 87. Bio-regeneration, Summon Inner Strength, Meditation, See Aura, Sixth Sense, Telepathy.

Combat Skills: Hand To Hand: Assassin. Attacks per Melee: 7 (Paired Weapons), otherwise 6. Combat Bonuses: +1 Initiative, +3 Strike, +13 Strike (Thrown Knife), +7 Strike (Knife), +8 Strike (Sword), +6 Strike (Thrown Sword), +4 Parry, +5 Parry (Knife), +5 Parry (Sword), +1 to Parry (horseback), +5 Dodge, +6 Dodge (horseback), +7 Pull Punch, +3 Roll with Punch, +1d4 damage (horseback) +4 damage, +4 Disarm. Special Attacks: Kick attack does 2d6 damage. Twin Strikes (roll once, hit twice; Paired Weapons), Strike or Parry two Targets (Paired Weapons), Strike and Parry (Paired Weapons). Tumbling Throw for 1d6 damage, opponent loses the initiative and an attack that melee. Knockout on a natural 17-20. ‘Karate’ Kick that does 2d4 damage, Roundhouse Kick that does 3d6 damage and a Trip attack that knocks an opponent down and can’t be a parried, but does no damage. Critical Strike on a natural 19-20. Bonuses to Saves: +14% vs. Coma/death, +4 vs. Magic/Poison, +4 vs. Horror factor.

Class Skills: Climbing/Rappelling 98%, Concealment 79%, Detect Concealment & Traps 88%, Basic Maths 98%, Pick Locks 96%, Prowl 88%, Track Humanoids 83%, Native Language 98%, Language #1 98%, Language #2 98%, WP Knife, WP Sword, WP Paired Weapons, WP Targeting, Disguise 88%, Intelligence 83%, General Horsemanship 93%/78%, Interrogation 83%, Surveillance 88%, Running, Acrobatics (Balance 98%, Highwire 68%, Back Flip 86%), Streetwise 70%, Sailing 68%/53%, Tumbling (Pole Vault 68%, Stilt Walk 68%).

Secondary Skills: Land Navigation 78%, Wilderness Survival 88%, Literacy 88%, Sign Language 48%.

Equipment:  They are equipped with three specialist throwing knives (+2 initiative, +1 strike, +2 strike thrown, -1 parry, 1d6 damage) , a Main Gauche (+2 initiative, +1 parry, +1 strike thrown, 1d6 damage) which transforms from a ring. The rune-dagger “Blood Feud” (+2 initiative, +2 strike, +4 strike thrown, 4d6 damage; double damage to the wielder’s blood relatives. Aberrant alignment. I.Q. 9), an assassin’s dagger (+2 initiative, +1 strike, +2 strike thrown, 1d6 damage) and a rapier (+2 initiative, +1 strike when thrown, +2 parry, 1d8+2 damage) at their hip. They wear a leather doublet, which is actually Leather of Iron (A.R.: 15, S.D.C.: 110. Enchanted to be weightless). Over which they wear the Shadow Stalker’s Cloak (A.R.: 15, S.D.C.: 250. Renders the wearer nigh invisible in shadow, granting a +30% to prowl. Wearer can step between any shadows within 100′ of each other instantly. A.R. only applies to attacks against the cloak itself.) They have a couple of changes of clothing, Boots of Mystery (+5% to prowl, -20% to be tracked), soft leather gloves, belt, bedroll, purse (with over 1000 gold; more hidden at home, wherever that might be), a backpack, a medium sized sack and 3 small ones. They also still have a water skin, set of lock picks, 50′ of rope, a grappling hook, 6 iron spikes, a small hammer, a pocket mirror and a tinderbox.

Background: This is Jay during the Left Hand of the Empire/War of Black Feathers stage of their life. They have had their dalliance with romance, spent a year as a Reaver (which had almost zero impact on their skills; the prerequisite of the seamanship skill is sewing), then ended up joining the Imperial assassins to secretly protect their chosen family.

They added sailing at 6th level; pottering around the waters of Valhenge was a pleasant diversion from being one of four regents.

They picked up Sign Language at 8th level. It seemed important as an assassin to be able to communicate silently.

Choosing Tumbling (from the Adventures On the High Seas sourcebook) at 9th level they gain +2 to P.S., +1 to P.E. and +2d4 S.D.C. (I roll 7). It also grants a bonus to dodge, a judo throw style special attack and some bonuses to jumping.

The Magpie Duke Jay September-Magvyr.

Alignment: Aberrant. Hit Points: 92 S.D.C.: 30 Weight: 132 lbs. Size: 5′9″ Age: 133 Sex: Intersex

I.Q 22, M.E. 11, M.A. 14, P.S. 16, P.P. 16, P.E. 23, P.B. 15, Spd. 36

Disposition: Jay is a leader. Responsible for not only the assassin’s guild which now bares their pseudonym, but also the Duchy of Fon Choille. The thing that they started their path hating. They only hope that they can be a better, kinder, duke than their father. R.C.C.: ‘Human’ O.C.C.: Assassin Experience Level: 15th.

Psionic Powers: Major Psionics. I.S.P.: 111. Bio-regeneration, Summon Inner Strength, Meditation, See Aura, Sixth Sense, Telepathy.

Combat Skills: Hand To Hand: Assassin. Attacks per Melee: 8 (Paired Weapons), otherwise 7. Combat Bonuses: +1 Initiative, +7 Strike, +19 Strike (Thrown Knife), +12 Strike (Knife), +14 Strike (Sword), +12 Strike (Thrown Sword), +4 Parry, +6 Parry (Knife), +6 Parry (Sword), +1 to Parry (horseback), +5 Dodge, +6 Dodge (horseback), +7 Pull Punch, +3 Roll with Punch, +1d4 damage (horseback) +6 damage, +4 Disarm. Special Attacks: Kick attack does 2d6 damage. Twin Strikes (roll once, hit twice; Paired Weapons), Strike or Parry two Targets (Paired Weapons), Strike and Parry (Paired Weapons). Tumbling Throw for 1d6 damage, opponent loses the initiative and an attack that melee. Knockout on a natural 17-20. ‘Karate’ Kick that does 2d4 damage, Roundhouse Kick that does 3d6 damage and a Trip attack that knocks an opponent down and can’t be a parried, but does no damage. Critical Strike on a natural 19-20, Death Blow on a natural 20. Bonuses to Saves: +14% vs. Coma/death, +4 vs. Magic/Poison, +4 vs. Horror factor.

Class Skills: Climbing/Rappelling 98%, Concealment 98%, Detect Concealment & Traps 98%, Basic Maths 98%, Pick Locks 98%, Prowl 98%, Track Humanoids 98%, Native Language 98%, Language #1 98%, Language #2 98%, WP Knife, WP Sword, WP Paired Weapons, WP Targeting, Disguise 98%, Intelligence 95%, General Horsemanship 98%/98%, Interrogation 98%, Surveillance 98%, Running, Acrobatics (Balance 98%, Highwire 83%, Back Flip 98%), Streetwise 90%, Sailing 93%/78%, Tumbling (Pole Vault 93%, Stilt Walk 93%), Heraldry 48%/53%.

Secondary Skills: Land Navigation 98%, Wilderness Survival 98%, Literacy 98%, Sign Language 73%.

Equipment: They are equipped with three specialist throwing knives (+2 initiative, +1 strike, +2 strike thrown, -1 parry, 1d6 damage) , a Main Gauche (+2 initiative, +1 parry, +1 strike thrown, 1d6 damage) which transforms from a ring. The rune-dagger “Blood Feud” (+2 initiative, +2 strike, +4 strike thrown, 4d6 damage; double damage to the wielder’s blood relatives. Aberrant alignment. I.Q. 9), the guild master’s assassin’s dagger (+3 initiative, +2 strike, +3 strike thrown, 1d6+1 damage; only used ceremonially) a pair of knives shaped like a Kukri at the small of their back (+2 initiative, +1 strike, +2 strike thrown, 1d6+2 damage) at the small of their back and sometimes a rapier (+2 initiative, +1 strike when thrown, +2 parry, 1d8+2 damage) at their hip. They wear a leather doublet, which is actually Leather of Iron (A.R.: 15, S.D.C.: 110. Enchanted to be weightless). Over which they wear the Shadow Stalker’s Cloak (A.R.: 15, S.D.C.: 250. Renders the wearer nigh invisible in shadow, granting a +30% to prowl. Wearer can step between any shadows within 100′ of each other instantly. A.R. only applies to attacks against the cloak itself.) They have a couple of changes of clothing, Boots of Mystery (+5% to prowl, -20% to be tracked), soft leather gloves, belt, purse (with over 1000 gold; more hidden at home), and whatever else they want. As guildmaster the entire resources of the assassin’s guild is theirs to draw upon.

Background: This is Jay as guildmaster and duke. This is The Magpie of The Collective.

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Muay Thai is a popular combat sport in Thailand that employs multiple stand-up fighting techniques and strategic clinchning

It's comparable to other Asian styles, such as karate, luge, and wushu, in that it places a premium on power over finesse. Muay Thai was brought to Thailand by generations of Thais who saw it as an efficient method to train in a tough, but fair environment. Muay Thai also has the unique ability to produce a classic Thai technician and hard hitting striker who can overwhelm opponents when well trained. Boxers who have trained with Muay Thai know that they're able to deal with the ring as long as they're trained, and this is one of the main reasons that Muay Thai has become so widely popular. มวย หย่ง ชุน

Muay Thai is the official martial art of Thailand and its fighters are trained to be extremely disciplined and very tough. Muay Thai first began as a sport but with the evolution of its techniques, it has morphed into a full time career for many of its practitioners. Muay Thai fighters are expected to be disciplined and keep their bodies in good condition during training and in the ring. Muay Thai gives fighters plenty of but it has been compared to mixed martial arts (MMA) because of the grappling which occurs throughout the bout.

Muay Thai strikes include a wide range of kicks, knees, punches and elbows. The kicks come in a variety of angles and are designed to damage opponents or force them out of position while knees strike the opponent to cause them to lose balance. Fist strikes are also common but are meant to be soft strikes designed to soften the target and limit damage. In addition, Muay Thai includes kicks to the groin area and instep of the boot.

A muay Thai class will teach students how to protect themselves in a street fight or in an altercation at home. Muay Thai can also help improve a person's self-defense skills because most fighters use their hands when fighting. Striking a man with your fist can cause serious injury or even death if the other person is larger or heavier than you. Learning self-defense from a muay Thai class can help minimize injuries and allow you to better defend yourself.

Muay Thai offers many benefits to those that wish to participate in a martial arts competition. Because it uses a variety of effective striking techniques, it is easy to learn and has become one of the most popular sports in Thailand. Muay Thai is also a very safe sport for children and is one of the only combat sports that does not require significant equipment. Muay Thai bouts can last up to thirty minutes and the winner is usually decided by a knockout or submission. Because Muay Thai is such an easy sport to learn, it appeals to a wide range of people because it is safe and accessible.

Muay Thai first developed as a sport in Thailand, but has since expanded into neighboring countries and even internationally. Because Muay Thai offers so many advantages, more people are enrolling in muay Thai classes across the globe. In Thailand, there are several competitions and national events, but you do not need a license or registration to participate. In other countries, Muay Thai is regulated by the government but fighters are generally allowed to compete on their own.

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After a devastating defeat from Khabib Nurmagomedov in October 2018, Conor McGregor is going to make a comeback in the hurt business against a very less known contender Donald Cerrone. Both the are going in the ring with a loss in their last fight. It is going to be the main event of UFC 246 in T-Mobile Arena, Nevada USA, on the 18-01-2020. In the same card, Holly Holm will be facing Raquel Pennington in the co-main event, the pair first met in 2015 when Holm was awarded a split decision at UFC 184. https://www.instagram.com/p/B6COgJjhVbN/ Mcgregor is coming back to the ring to win a fight against Khabib who humiliated Conor in October 2018 when Conor quit in the fourth round in front of his fans. Khabib is going to test himself against the toughest contender of his career in Tony Ferguson, if Khabib wins, he may offer a rematch to the winner of Conor McGregor vs. Donald Cerrone. Let's have a Tale of tape to compare Conor and Donald Conor Notorious McGregor Vs. Donald Cowboy Cerrone Boxing, Kickboxing Fighting Style Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Muay Thai, Kickboxing 31 years Age 36 years 25 Professional Fights 50 21 Total Wins 36 4 Total Losses 13 5.9 Height in Feet 6.1 74 Reach in inches 73 170 Weight in pounds 170 Boxing Fighting Style Kickboxing, Muay Thai, BJJ Conor has an edge in this fight as he has shared the ring with a lot of the current and former champions and defeated most of them while Donal could never win a single championship fight. Donald appeared in 50 professional fights, and Conor appeared in 25. Conor Mcgregor was unstoppable for almost six years from 2010 to 2016 and won 15 professional bouts in that period while Donald’s winning streak is 8 consecutive fights. Both Conor and Donald have only one boxing match on their resumes, both were knocked out in their respective matches and they called it a day. Donald Cerrone never lost any professional kickboxing match in his 29 fights, he finished 19 kickboxing matches before the final bell. Conor is less experienced as compared to Donald, Conor Mcgregor appeared in a single amateur fight and stopped his opponent and Donald has won two amateur world titles: the first is Knockdown Classic and the second is  International Sport Karate Association. https://www.instagram.com/p/B6zETEpJvKq/ Donald has a rich resume in combat sports like boxing, kickboxing, and Mixed Martial Arts while Conor’s career is short but he managed to win three world titles in two UFC weight classes. The fight is fifty-fifty and it can go either side as both the fighters have gas tank issues but Mcgregor has an advantage while comparing the power of both the fighters, Conor has a slight better knockout percentage as compared to Donald’s. Prediction: Conor TKO3.

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Demetrious Johnson And Eddie Alvarez return to ONE Championship Dawn Of Heroes

10 June 2019 – Manila, Philippines: The largest global sports media property in Asian history, ONE Championship™ (ONE), has just announced ONE: DAWN OF HEROES, set for Friday, 2 August. The Mall of Asia Arena in Manila will play host to another electrifying evening of world-class martial arts action. Once again, the world’s greatest martial arts athletes will descend upon the ONE Championship global stage to showcase their incredible skills. In the main event, reigning ONE Flyweight Muay Thai World Champion Jonathan “The General” Haggerty of the United Kingdom will defend his title against Rodtang “Iron Man” Jitmuangnon of Thailand.

Haggerty is already an accomplished martial artist despite his relative youth. He began training in Muay Thai at the age of 7 under the watchful eye of his father, John, who was himself an active competitor.

Haggerty quickly racked up multiple accolades in the sport of Muay Thai as an amateur becoming a three-time English Champion, three-time British Champion, and winning a European title as well. As a professional, he has dominated almost everyone he has faced to date, winning almost all of his bouts via knockout while facing the sport’s elite.

Last May in Jakarta, Haggerty captured the ONE Flyweight Muay Thai World Championship after a stunning performance, upsetting former titleholder Sam-A Gaiyanghadao. He is now set to defend his title against Rodtang Jitmuangnon.

Like many Thai warriors before him, two-time Omnoi Stadium Muay Thai World Champion Rodtang started training at a young age when he was just 7 years old. He had his first professional Muay Thai bout at the age of 10.

Rodtang initially trained at a small camp in his hometown of Pattalung, but soon began traveling to the famed Jitmuangnon Camp in Bangkok in pursuit of better training. He would make the move permanent in order to train full-time and pursue his dreams of becoming a World Champion.

Rodtang was highly successful, compiling over 250 wins by the time he turned 21, and he even won the prestigious Omnoi Stadium World Title twice.

Seeking redemption, multiple-time World Champion Eddie “The Underground King” Alvarez of the United States returns to action against former ONE Lightweight World Champion Eduard “Landslide” Folayang of the Philippines.

A four-time Lightweight World Champion, Alvarez is not just an incredibly exciting martial artist – he is also the only man in history to have claimed World Titles in both of North America’s leading promotions. Now that he is on the global stage, he is intent on cementing his status as an all-time great by capturing the ONE Lightweight World Championship to become the first man to conquer the three largest organizations on the planet.

He hit a stumbling block in his ONE Championship debut however, when he ran into Russian knockout artist Timofey Nastyukhin. Now Alvarez is on the comeback trail, and will need to defeat Filipino icon Folayang if he hopes to reinvigorate his chances at the ONE World Title.

Folayang, on the other hand, is the former ONE Lightweight World Champion. Born in Baguio City, he joined the Philippines Wushu Team, and won several gold medals to become a national hero. “Landslide” then transitioned to mixed martial arts under the instruction of Mark Sangiao at Team Lakay, and captured a Filipino Welterweight Championship in his June 2007 debut. Folayang made his promotional debut in the main event of ONE Championship’s inaugural show in September 2011.

Five years later, he returned to Singapore to capture the ONE Lightweight World Title, defeating the legendary Shinya Aoki. After losing the title, and then regaining it once more, Folayang defended the belt last March in a rematch with the Japanese warrior. The Filipino unfortunately fell via first round submission.

Up next for Folayang is perhaps the most difficult test of his career in the form of lightweight great Alvarez.

In a ONE Flyweight World Grand Prix Semi-final round, American sensation Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson takes on Tatsumitsu “The Sweeper” Wada of Japan.

A 12-time Flyweight World Champion, Johnson is widely considered one of the greatest pound-for-pound mixed martial artists of all time. In 2018, after completely dominating the highly-competitive North American scene with a record-setting run of 11 World Title defenses, Johnson decided to make ONE Championship his new home as part of a landmark deal.

Johnson made his ONE Championship debut last March when he took on Yuya Wakamatsu. “Mighty Mouse” overcame a spirited effort from his opponent to win by submission in the second round, advancing to the tournament semi-finals. Now, another Japanese warrior in Wada awaits.

Wada started his training with karate at his father’s insistence, and he later added judo to his growing skill set in high school before taking second place in a state tournament.

Wada was inspired to train to compete in mixed martial arts after watching some events on television, and he began training at the famed Yoshida Dojo after relocating to Tokyo in search of better training.

Nicknamed “The Sweeper,” he went a stellar 11-1 while twice capturing the Flyweight World Title in Japan’s DEEP organization and took an eight-bout winning streak into his ONE Championship debut. In his most recent outing, Wada overcame a spirited effort from Cuba’s Gustavo Balart, advancing to the semi-final round of the tournament to face Johnson.

In another ONE Flyweight World Grand Prix Semi-final bout, the Philippines’ Danny “The King” Kingadgoes up against former ONE World Champion Kairat “The Kazakh” Akhmetov of Kazakhstan.

Kingad is from Sadanga in the Mountain Province, but he went to school in Baguio. He began training in wushu at the famed Team Lakay in 2012, and went on to win gold medals in several local tournaments. Inspired by the success of his esteemed teammates such as former ONE Lightweight World Champion Eduard Folayang, he then turned his attention to the cage. Kingad made a successful start to his professional career in 2014, debuting with ONE Championship on the way to an impressive 8-0 record.

This earned him a shot at the ONE Flyweight World Championship against Adriano Moraes, but the Igorot warrior unfortunately failed in his first bid at World Title glory. Now, “The King” is back on the title hunt, but will have to get past former champion Akhmetov in order to clinch a tournament finals berth.

Akhmetov is a three-time National Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion in Kazakhstan. He also took to taekwondo, winning a regional championship.

In May 2010, he started his professional cage career in perfect fashion, taking the Eastern European scene by storm and winning his first 22 bouts. He then signed with ONE Championship in November 2015, with his first bout in the organization being against ONE Flyweight World Championship Adriano Moraes for the coveted belt. After five grueling rounds, Akhmetov won the title via split decision in a thrilling affair and reached the pinnacle of his career. He then lost the title in an immediate rematch with Moraes two years later, after a lengthy recovery period from a debilitating back injury.

Akhmetov now has the chance to make his way back to title contention as a contestant in the ONE Flyweight World Grand Prix. He will have to defeat Kingad first however, who stands firmly in his way.

In a ONE Lightweight World Grand Prix Semi-final bout, former ONE Featherweight World Champion Honorio “The Rock” Banario of the Philippines steps in for the injured Lowen Tynanes to take on Russia’s Timofey Nastyukhin. Both men are looking to advance to the final round of the high-profile tournament.

Banario is a top contender at lightweight who has won six of his last eight contests in the division. He possesses immense power in his hands, particularly his left hook, which has led to five big victories by knockout throughout his career. A member of Baguio City’s famed Team Lakay, Banario faces one of his toughest opponents to date in Nastyukhin.

Nastyukhin, who shocked the world when he defeated Eddie Alvarez in the first round of the tournament via knockout, is a man on a mission. With only Banario standing in his way to the ONE Lightweight World Grand Prix Finals, the Russian stalwart will bring his heavy firepower to the ONE Circle, as he looks to end matters early and secure a finals berth.

Former ONE World Title Challenger Reece “Lightning” McLaren of Australia is back in action, this time taking on Japan’s Yuya “Little Piranha” Wakamatsu in a flyweight contest.

Both McLaren and Wakamatsu are looking to bounce back after early exits in the ONE Flyweight World Grand Prix last March in Tokyo. A victory for either means redemption, and moving further up the flyweight ladder.

McLaren, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, is known in the ONE Circle for his incredible grappling skills. Wakamatsu, on the other hand, is a former Pancrase Flyweight Tournament Champion. This matchup features two high-level martial arts athletes both at the top of their game.

Multiple-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champion Leandro “Brodinho” Issa of Brazil will face Japanese mixed martial arts standout Daichi Takenaka in a bantamweight contest.

Issa, from the famed Evolve Fight Team, has won most of his bouts via submission, in a career spanning over 20 professional bouts since 2006. The combat sports veteran has seen his fair share of tough challenges from the world’s top promotions. Conversely, Takenaka is one of the fastest rising stars on the local Japanese mixed martial arts circuit. A victory for Takenaka here could legitimize him as a top contender in the division.

Japanese women’s mixed martial arts sensation Ayaka Miura is back in action, following a successful ONE Championship debut last February to take on former ONE World Title Challenger Samara Marituba” Santos of Brazil. Meanwhile, Neunglanlek Jitmuangnon of Thailand takes on Chris Shaw of Scotland in a ONE Super Series Muay Thai contest.

ONE: DAWN OF HEROES Friday, 2 August 2019 Mall of Asia Arena, Manila, Philippines

ONE Flyweight Muay Thai World Championship Jonathan Haggerty (C) vs Rodtang Jitmuangnon ONE Super Series Muay Thai (4oz. gloves): 61.2kg

Eduard Folayang vs Eddie Alvarez Mixed Martial Arts: 77.1kg

ONE Flyweight World Grand Prix Semi-Finals Demetrious Johnson vs Tatsumitsu Wada Mixed Martial Arts: 61.2kg

ONE Flyweight World Grand Prix Semi-Finals Danny Kingad vs Kairat Akhmetov Mixed Martial Arts: 61.2kg

ONE Lightweight World Grand Prix Semi-Finals Honorio Banario vs Timofey Nastyukhin Mixed Martial Arts: 77.1kg

Reece McLaren vs Yuya Wakamatsu Mixed Martial Arts: 61.2kg

Leandro Issa vs Daichi Takenaka Mixed Martial Arts: 65.8kg

Ayaka Miura vs Samara Santos Mixed Martial Arts: 56.7kg

Neunglanlek Jitmuangnon vs Chris Shaw ONE Super Series Muay Thai (4oz. gloves): 65.8kg

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Best Knockouts in UFC History | Hugecount

There is no denying the appreciation surrounding the technical mastery of the grappling, holds, the punches etc. but nothing beats a breathtaking knockout in the brutal, no holds barred sport of MMA, which makes you spring up from your seat and look in awe. The holies of combat sports holies, the knockout is an unmitigated combination of both flawless timing and raw physical power that reminds every MMA fan exactly why they like the sport.

Over the years we have seen some of the most perfect knockouts in the premier organization of MMA, i.e UFC all of which include knockouts with one hard punch, a vicious elbow or even a devastating kick. Let’s take a look at some of the best knockouts to have ever happened inside the Octagon. In no particular order:-

Gabriel Gonzaga KOs Mirko Cro Cop, UFC 70 Hands down, the most ironic knockout in the history of MMA. Mirko Cro Cop is known for his headkick knockouts that leave his opponents dazed. However at the UFC 70, Gabriel Gonzaga turned the tables to give Cro Cop a taste of his own medicine. It is important to note that the match had a surmounted significance for the Croatian, as the match was a heavyweight title eliminator and unfortunately the closest Cro Cop ever got to UFC gold.There was a rematch at UFC Fight Night 64 and this time round Cro Cop got the better off Gonzaga, but the first round head kick at UFC 70 remains one of the most famous and replayed finishes in the UFC history.

Holly Holm KOs Ronda Rousey, UFC 193 If Gonzaga v Cro Cop was the most ironic knockout, then surely Holly Holm knocking out the previously undefeated Ronda Rousey must be the most shocking one. A lot of fans might bring up Anderson Silva vs. Chris Weidman, but the latter only got the better of Silva, who by the way was undefeated for seven years, after he let his guard down. Holly managed to get the better of Rousey even when she was going full cylinders at her.Back then, Holly Holm was a massive underdog for the bantamweight crown against Rousey. No one expected her to win, and she shocked the whole world including Rousey with her vicious second round knockout. This one made the UFC news department go into frenzy mode.

Conor McGregor KOs Jose Aldo, UFC 194 Thirteen seconds. That was all it took The Notorious to take down an undefeated champ of ten years. Prior to the match there was months of promotion for the fight, press tours were arranged to the home countries of both. Jose Aldo must have felt a massive disappointment, but for McGregor, this fight was well and truly his announcement as the biggest star in the mixed martial arts. He became the first ever two division champion in UFC history less than a year later and would never fight again in the 145lb category.

Lyoto Machida KOs Randy Couture, UFC 129 It was incredibly difficult to pick between this one and Anderson Silva vs. Vitor Belfort at UFC 126. However, in my opinion, Machida’s spectacularly executed karate crane kick takes a slight edge. The knockout truly ended Couture’s UFC career but not in consequence as the former light heavyweight and former heavyweight champion had announced his news of retirement prior to the match. Unfortunately for Vitor Belfort, he has also taken a similar head kick knockout against Machida at UFC 224, where coincidentally Belfort also decided to draw the curtains on his UFC career.

Edson Barboza KOs Terry Etim, UFC 142 One of the most perfectly executed knockouts in the history of MMA, and not just UFC. Edson Barboza landed a beautiful spinning wheel kick to Terry Etim, making him drop to the floor like a plank of wood. Even Joe Rogan as commentator, knew that it was a knockout even before Etim touched the ground.

Source: https://hugecount.com/sport/best-knockouts-in-ufc-history/

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Betting tip on the fight Sergey Handozhko - Bartosz Fabinski

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Betting tip on the fight Sergey Handozhko - Bartosz Fabinski

The only Russian who will participate in the Stockholm UFC Fight Night 153, will be Sergei Khandozhko. The Russians recently signed a contract with the promotion, and his first fight will be against a fairly experienced pole Bartosz Babinskogo. The fighters meet in the octagon on “Ericsson globe Arena” the first of June.

Sergey Handozhko

A huge role in the development of fighter played first coach Sergey Nikolay Vorobiev, who worked with him in the dojo until the fifth grade. After that the fighter was no longer involved in wrestling, but in sports he was forced to return a disease in which motor activity was minimized.

This time, Hanioka began to engage in melee combat, simultaneously studying karate under the leadership of Alexander Zhokin. For the year Sergey became a champion of Moscow in karate and winner of the tournament fighting. Also, the athlete took part in competition on universal fight, where he took first place.

Early career

In 2011, the year Handoko made a decision to combine professional and Amateur sports. Sergei began to participate in the battle of regional Russian organizations, which reached the record of 14-0. Something significant at this time, Sergei didn’t happen. He beat Frank bags with negative records, but won a belt promotion M-1.

At the tenth fight in his career against Handoko put first for him, the opponent with a positive record, the Russians fought against pole Victor Sobchik on ProFC 42. Beating the opponent, Handoko won second career title. Ventricu was destined to be interrupted at the fourteenth battle in the career athlete – the then young and promising Eduard Vartanyan on Legend defeated the Russians.

Career in the ACB and other promotions

After the defeat of athlete continued to speak against the opposition with a positive record, defeating anyone who gets in his way. It is necessary to highlight the battle against Vasily Fedorovich at Fight Stars. Thanks to the victory in the battle, Handoko received an invitation to ACB. In the Russian organization, the athlete instantly became one of the main actors in mainevent 16th of the tournament, beating Sergei Faley. However, the next battle against albert Duraev failed. Athlete lost via unanimous decision, and then did not start the best period in his career. Handoko began to alternate victories and defeats, bringing a 4-4 record decided to leave ACB.

Outside the Russian organization athlete has played two matches. At the Golden Team Championship, he was stronger than Miller’s kuto, and the S-70 defeated Adriano Rodriguez. In early 2019, the year the athlete became a signatory to the UFC and will make his first fight on the 153rd tournament series Fight Night.

Bartosz Fabinski

At the age of seven pole came to the judo school, where he was noticed by Paul Nastula – Olympic medalist in wrestling. Taking Babinskogo in their ranks, Nastula is still a personal trainer Bartos.

Professional athlete started in 2011-the year in Polish regional promotions. At the start of a career Bartolo failed to give long winstreak fifth battle Fabinski loses Martino Bandulu knockout in the first minute of the match. Despite the defeat, the athlete’s interest in European promotions, over and over again at pole good fights.

So, at the Battle of Champions athlete closed defeat with a victory over Adam Kowalski. Three victories in a row, the poles once again loses. This time, the abuser Babinskogo became Vendres da Silva. Thanks to the victory at PLMMA over Sulinski Michal, Bartosz takes the title of one of the main promotions of Poland. Continuing successful performance, Babinski signs a contract with the UFC.

In the best promotion on the planet pole starts more than confident. Breaking Garrett Maclean in the opening match, Fabinski is stronger than Hector Urbina. Six months later, the fighter was forced to withdraw due to injury from UFC Fight Night 86. The injury was so serious that Fabinski missed about two and a half years. In 2018, the year the athlete came back and defeated Emil Weber meek. But in the battle with the Michel Prazeres made a mistake, which led to his first defeat of 2014.

Forecast of the battle Handoko – Fabinski

For the athlete battle against Bartosz Babinskogo work incredibly hard. This level of opposition Sergey met only lost them fights, so Handoko spent a great training camp before the fight. Fabinski – classy fighter with powerful strikes and excellent work in grappling. Handoko will need to consider many factors before the battle with the pole, including the favorite action of the opponent in the ground-and-pound. Most likely, a fight between two powerful men will not last longer than two rounds, so you should put on early completion of fight.

Prediction: the Fight will end prematurely.

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Srisaket Sor Rungvisai Caps Historic Night Of Martial Arts With Unanimous Decision Win

History was made in Bangkok, Thailand, as Srisaket Sor Rungvisai defended his WBC Super Flyweight World Title as a boxing bout headlined a ONE Championship event for the first time.

A sold-out crowd at the Impact Arena also saw more than a dozen other match-ups across mixed martial arts, kickboxing, and Muay Thai rules at ONE: KINGDOM OF HEROES on Saturday, 6 October.

In the evening’s main event, Mexico’s Iran “MagnifiKO” Diaz gave a valiant performance to go the distance with Srisaket, but the Thai hero was clearly the better man across the 12 rounds.

Srisaket showed why he was the favourite heading into the contest, as he stalked Diaz around the ring and connected with hard punches to the head and body.

Though Diaz never had the upper hand for an extended period, he was never out of the contest. The blows he absorbed would have finished many other athletes, but he showed incredible toughness to see the final bell.

When the action ended, both athletes raised their arms in triumph, but there was no mistaking the winner. The judges gave Srisaket the win with scorecards of 119-109, 120-108, and 119-109, and he retained his belt.

The co-main event went the distance, and a new ONE Kickboxing Atomweight World Champion was crowned, as Stamp Fairtex dethroned “Killer Bee” Kai Ting Chuang by unanimous decision.

In the first half of the ONE Super Series bout, the Thai challenger made effective use of powerful knees and kicks to race into an early lead, but the Chinese athlete made a spirited defence of her World Title late on. She used her trademark speed to charge forward and take advantage of her opponent’s fading offence.

However, at the end of five closely-contested rounds, Stamp’s hand was raised as her record improved to 61-15-5, and the home crowd got to cheer another champion from Thailand.

In the main mixed martial arts attraction of the night, Shinya “Tobikan Judan” Aoki only needed 57 seconds to book a shot at the ONE Lightweight World Title.

The Japanese icon put the squeeze on Malaysia’s Ev “E.T.” Ting with an arm-triangle choke, and he went to sleep almost instantly.

Aoki is now set to challenge for the belt he once owned in Japan next March, against the winner of the Eduard Folayang VS Amir Khan match at ONE: CONQUEST OF CHAMPIONS in Manila, Philippines on 23 November.

The Thai fans in the Impact Arena were on their feet during earlier main card action for Nong-O Gaiyanghadao, who displayed a Muay Thai masterclass in his ONE Super Series bantamweight match with Mehdi “Diamond Heart” Zatout.

The legend of the art of eight limbs put on a powerhouse performance – stepping up a gear after a competitive first round to drop his French opponent with a right elbow in the second stanza.

From there, the Thai was utterly dominant, and cruised to a unanimous decision victory after another round and a half of one-way traffic.

Dutch kickboxing legend Andy “Souwer Power” Souwer made his ONE Super Series debut in a lightweight kickboxing contest against Anthony “The Assassin” Njokuani, who scored an upset by split decision.

The Nigerian matched the two-time K-1 World Max Champion for much of the bout, using evasive movement to stop Souwer from landing effectively, and picking his shots carefully to edge the contest in the judges’ eyes.

In the opening contest of the main card, surging bantamweight contender Leandro “Brodinho” Issa saw an end to his winning streak as Muin “Tajik” Gafurov turned out his lights with an overhand right.

In his return to ONE after two years away, the Combat Sambo World Champion from Tajikistan shook off the submission attempts from his Brazilian opponent before hitting the one-punch knockout blow after just 2:24 in the first round of this catch weight contest.

Alaverdi Ramazanov authored arguably the biggest upset so far in ONE Super Series, as he edged hometown hero Petchmorrakot Wor. Sangprapai in their bantamweight Muay Thai clash to close the prelims.

The Russian was aggressive and active in his promotional debut, shrugging off the damage caused by his opponent’s elbows to earn all three judges’ favour against the two-division Lumpinee Stadium and WMC World Champion.

The last man to defeat new ONE Strawweight World Champion, Hayato Suzuki, did no harm to his chances of securing a rematch for the belt by taking out Robin “The Ilonggo” Catalan.

The Japanese grappler was relentless in his pursuit of the finish, as he hunted for takedowns and dominant positions. In the second round, he locked in a rear-naked choke, and though the Filipino defended well, he was forced to tap with 3:42 on the clock.

A thrilling ONE Super Series flyweight kickboxing bout went back-and-forth for three rounds before Muay Thai legend Singtongnoi Por Telakun emerged with a unanimous decision.

The Thai hero had to withstand a relentless attack from Japan’s Masahide “Crazy Rabbit” Kudo, but his kicks and counter strikes were enough to give him the victory, which was his second in the organization.

Thai superstar Rika “Tiny Doll” Ishige returned to the win column in her first bout in six months, and brought the night’s second passionate response from the Thai fans.

The Tiger Muay Thai representative weathered an early storm from Myanmar’s Bozhena Antoniyar, took the contest to the ground, and fired away with punches and elbows from her opponent’s back. The stoppage came at 2:48 of round one.

The Bangkok crowd was on its feet for the first ONE Super Series Muay Thai bout of the night, as Thailand’s Petchdam Kaiyanghadao hit his second consecutive highlight-reel knockout.

Kenny Tse was out on his feet when he absorbed the left roundhouse kick at 1:26 of the first round, making the follow-up knee and elbow academic.

Fu Chang Xin got his second ONE win with a rear-naked choke of Rin Saroth at the 3:04 mark of the second round.

After a striking battle in the first five minutes, the Chinese bantamweight took the bout to the mat and forced his Cambodian opponent to tap within an instant of locking up the submission.

In the first bout of the evening, Filipino Kyokushin karate champion Ramon Gonzales made short work of Indonesia’s Dodi Mardian.

The mixed martial arts flyweight bout ended with another rear-naked choke at 3:33 of round one.

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Kyoji Horiguchi's Impossible Task

When Fightland profiled Kyoji Horiguchi in 2014, the young Japanese fighter was just beginning his run in the UFC. Asked about his motivation to begin fighting, Horiguchi replied that he had begun watching mixed martial arts when he was at high school and had been drawn to the fights of Norifumi ‘Kid’ Yamamoto. Horiguchi remarked: “He was knocking out guys much bigger than him. I’m not so big myself and wanted to do the same. That’s how it started.”

Kyoji had begun his martial arts training the same way that many Japanese children do, in traditional karate. Horiguchi learned under the instruction of Mr. Hirou Nihei. Beginning his MMA career as a sort of Kid Yamamoto knock-off, the more Kyoji allowed that karate training to show through in his fights, the better he performed. The influences of Yamamoto and Nihei, and of American Top Team combined to make Horiguchi something truly unique in mixed martial arts and in 2017 he was able to do exactly what Yamamoto had: he went up a weightclass and stopped three men over two nights to be crowned the Rizin bantamweight champion.

At this point it is no exaggeration to say that Kyoji Horiguchi is the finest mixed martial artist that Japan has ever produced and the gulf between Horiguchi and the remaining talent outside of the UFC is substantial. The move to bantamweight was for a challenge. After Horiguchi made it look a doss, Rizin dug out Ian McCall as a respected flyweight name and Horiguchi stopped him with the first punch thrown. Everything Rizin lines up for Horiguchi seems to be just to keep him busy, and Horiguchi has been able to knock opponents down faster than Rizin can line them up. Finally, Rizin pulled the trigger and booked the fantasy match that fans have been dreaming of since the first Rizin events: Kyoji Horiguchi would take his first professional kickboxing match, against perhaps the best kickboxer in Japan, the undefeated Tenshin Nasukawa.

Horiguchi has that same presence as Yamamoto in the ring—he is simply electric—but outside of the ring he has always been understated and cheerful: the most harmless knockout artist you will ever meet. Yet as he navigated a course through the finest stretch of his career there was much more happening below the surface. Explaining his decision to leave the UFC and return to Japan, Horiguchi revealed that it was partly influenced by Hirou Nihei being diagnosed with cancer. What wasn’t revealed to the public is that during almost the same space of time, Kid Yamamoto was also battling cancer.

And so at Rizin 13, as Horiguchi strides into the greatest test of his career, tasked with besting an unbeaten fighting prodigy in a completely different combat sport, he does so having laid to rest both his teacher and his idol in a few short months.

A Brief Introduction to Tenshin

We have written about Tenshin Nasukawa at length before—both a stylistic study and then a reflection on his toughest match—so we will keep it brief here. Nasukawa, like Horiguchi, is at his best out in space and has little desire to place opponents on the ropes most of the time. What Nasukawa does very well is counter punch—both up the center of kicks and over the top of his opponents punches when he can drawn them into over-extension. The style of drawing the opponent’s rear hand, angling off on the retreat, and firing one’s own power hand over the open side has been around for a hundred years or more (below is Benny Leonard doing it in the 1920s), but it has suddenly found new prominence between fighters like Conor McGregor, Stephen Thompson, and Tenshin Nasukawa.

Here is a great example of Nasukawa drawing out the right hand and countering through the open side, twice in quick succession. It is a pretty unique clip because the majority of the time Nasukawa’s opponent will crumble when he lands it, but Rodtang’s head might actually be full of concrete.

And the same can be seen here. Notice how Nasukawa draws Rodtang’s right hand into extension and throws his left hand in from that slight angle. Attacks from the open side can not be rolled off on the lead shoulder and back with a well-timed turn of the body, making them considerably more dangerous than if you tried to fire a straight from a similar angle on the closed side.

Nasukawa also has a brilliant check hook and a solid southpaw kicking game—pounding the opponent’s right arm with the round kick and looking to drive stepping knees in when he can. With that out of the way, let us talk match up specifics.

The issues Nasukawa has faced have come as opponents have pressed him to the ropes. He needs space to retreat and angle for that left hand counter to work at its best, so when he hits the ropes he will either try to check hook and duck out the side door, or simply run to get off them. Doing this over and over again left him exhausted in the fourth and fifth rounds against both the aggressive Rodtang and the cautious Suakim. This led to many occasions where Nasukawa performed a rolling thunder, or even double legged his opponent in order to take breathers on the mat.

Points Karate in a Nutshell

From the moment that this match was announced, it seemed something like Mayweather vs. McGregor for the fight fan who considered himself too good for that circus. Granted, kickboxing is considerably closer to MMA than boxing but the idea of a fighter taking up a new sport and immediately jumping in with a great will always seem like a stretch too far. Though there is some precedent to offset a fight fan’s usual pessimism: Gegard Mousasi beat Kyotaro Fujimoto in a kickboxing match on New Years Eve (albeit ten days after Kyotaro went the distance with Semmy Schilt), and Alistair Overeem famously upset Badr Hari after years away from kickboxing, previously only having competed at a fairly low level.

But outside of a matchup between Japan’s two most promising young fighters, this fight might also tell us something more about the kickboxing game at large. The kickboxing meta has always favored a closer range and combination work. The threat of a takedown in MMA necessitated striking from a greater range and points style karate found tremendous success within MMA where you never really saw it in kickboxing. Horiguchi is one of the best examples of long distance karate in MMA and that style is always built on two ideas: drawing the opponent into overreaching through the exaggerated distance, or bursting in through that distance with alarming speed.

When “The Machida Riddle” was still unsolved, Lyoto Machida would establish an extended distance, control it perfectly, and then step in to intercept his opponent when they committed to chasing him. This style of counter punching created perfect sen-no-sen or intercepting counters, and by timing his step in as his opponent was advancing, Machida could appear considerably faster than he actually was.

Kyoji Horiguchi is best at the other portion of competition karate—he actually is exceptionally fast and he makes his money fighting from beyond his opponent’s reach and then bursting in before they know what is happening. He does all that Machida stuff, but it is probably safe to assume that the best kickboxer in Japan isn’t going to run face first onto a counter like Horiguchi’s MMA opponents often have.

The Bounce

When a boxer steps in to lead, it is typically with the jab and he drives from his back foot to extend his stance. Boxing is about economy of motion and a good percentage of fighters, a good percentage of the time, want to use that first attack to get into range to either follow up or draw counters they can continue working against. Points karate isn’t that—the man who gets there first, wins. When you watch a man like Horiguchi or Michael Page burst in on his strikes, know that there’s more going on than just extending into it as a boxer does with his jab. Attention is paid to drawing the opponent around the ring and trying to catch them stepping onto the strike, and often the strike itself is hidden in bouncing—which in turn can be used to cover more distance than leading straight out of the stance.

Converse with a couple of decent point fighters and you will quickly learn that everyone has their own philosophy on bouncing, but most good point fighters use some variant on the idea for a couple of reasons. Firstly, bouncing is a tremendous means of complicating the action. Strikers get good at reading tells and these are even easier to pick up on if the opponent comes in straight off a static base—watch any UFC event from the previous decade to see a ton of that. Add in the bouncing and suddenly you are trying to pick up on a dropping of the hands or a shuffling of the feet while everything in your vision is moving up and down.

Most importantly though, bouncing is a marvellous means of hiding what the feet are doing and moving the fighter into a closer range before he has performed that fencing-like lunge into a longer stance. You can watch any number of clips of Christophe Pinna demonstrating this idea on YouTube—the feet go together so that you can perform your thrust after an initial bounce in. You might not make double the distance of a fighter just lunging straight from his stance, but perhaps you can add an extra fifty or sixty percent range to your advance and that is more than enough to catch a man out.

Pretty much any Horiguchi blitz is preceded by a bounce in, maintaining his stance and then a movement into the actual movement.

In fact the current TKO heavyweight, Ciryl Gane uses a very similar bouncing to get in on right hands and establish clinches. As did the late and underappreciated Ryan Jimmo. Gane’s speed is glacial compared to Horiguchi’s but the attacks still flow so nicely out of the bounce that Gane’s opponent is caught completely unprepared.

Bouncing effectively makes fighting from a longer range more viable. Lyoto Machida didn’t do a lot of bouncing to lead but his opponents were so woefully out of their depth at his extended range that they often simply sprinted at him as Ryan Bader did. Do that against Tenshin Nasukawa and you will get murdered with a counter ten times out of ten. But with convincing bouncing and feinting from that uncomfortable range well, as Nasukawa put it in one of Rizin’s pre-fight packages:

The Hypothetical Gameplan

In terms of what Horiguchi can do against Nasukawa—this could be an uphill battle. The thing about the bouncing, bursting, long range style of fighting is that it gets very energy consuming. As fights go on, Horiguchi abandons his bounce and strides around the ring, returning to it when he wants to hide his burst. More than ten or 12 bursts a round is going to get tiring.

A good fight for Horiguchi is one where not much is happening, which is interesting because normally that is what we would say about Nasukawa—the power hitting counter puncher. For most fighters, pushing the pace against Nasukawa would probably be their best chance, but Horiguchi’s style has just never been about that. Furthermore, where Nasukawa looked slow and sloppy in the late rounds against Rodtang and Suakim, those were five-round fights and this one is just three rounds. Horiguchi has three minutes to work each round and he would do best to do as little as possible and punctuate rounds with bursts of offense.

In terms of avoiding the counter strikes, keeping his bursts unpredictable is the priority. The bursts are longer than a standard lead from kickboxing range, which means if you aren’t keeping the opponent confused you are giving them a long distance space in which to counter you.

In writing notes for this bout, my thoughts were that Horiguchi should use low calf kicks to skip up and knock the long-stanced (for a kickboxer) and often backward moving Nasukawa off balance momentarily and make advancing on him less dangerous. Furthermore long straight kicks would be the best method of getting in single strikes with the least chance of retaliation. And for Horiguchi’s bursts, you would want to see him do what he has always done in MMA—make himself hard to hit in the aftermath. Where Machida was always a sitting duck after his big reverse punch, Horiguchi will always weave into a left hook, push the opponent away, or grab a clinch—these are the things that make a fighter harder to hit after he has dashed forward with uncontrollable speed.

Watching the absurdly well put together Rizin Confessions web series revealed that Horiguchi and Nasukawa had in fact sparred in 2015. Sparring footage is not something to be taken too seriously—these McGregor-Mayweather parallels are getting spooky—but it did show each of those above mentioned ideas that might improve Horiguchi’s chances. In addition to the skip-up calf kick, the front kick to the body and the punch-and-shove, notice the beautiful contrast between Horiguchi’s bounce and Nasukawa’s more kickboxing/Muay Thai style of transitioning weight back and forth between the feet within the stance. That’s the great thing about fighting: there’s a hundred different ways to do it.

The skip-up calf tap (albeit with no follow up):

A nice front kick to the body (again out of the bounce) and a pull away from the counter.

The clip Rizin repeated over and over was a good right hand which was immediately pushed through to the wall. The right hand itself isn’t hugely interesting, the shove is. This is the thing Horiguchi should be doing in the fight above all else: denying the open side counter. Horiguchi’s game is bursting into his right hand and Nasukawa’s game is countering through the open side as that hand is drawn back. Often when facing that counter the better thing to do is to push through and fold behind the right elbow or shoulder, driving into the opponent and smothering him rather than trying to retreat into the stance.

One of the great things about kickboxing, compared to boxing, is that a good degree of physicality is permitted. A push or pull might not seem like much but Giorgio Petrosyan has built a career out of it as we examined in Giorgio Petrosyan and The Counter to All Strikes. Every strike or combination ends with a little shove—it is re-establishing range but rather than stepping back, one forces the opponent out of their stance and out of their opportunity to come back with a counter.

Petrosyan mixes this in with ducks into clinches after his strikes and this—the more familiar “punch and clutch” should also be a staple of Horiguchi’s game here. Hiding the burst and staying safe after the burst are paramount. Other tactics that allow Horiguchi to score points with the least chance of retaliation—long front kicks/low-line side kicks if they are permitted—or complicate counter punching—the skip-up calf kick—should be thrown in liberally throughout.

The excitement here is not so much whether Kyoji Horiguchi can beat Tenshin Nasukawa: you wouldn't expect him to, given his complete inexperience in kickboxing competition. The intrigue is in seeing whether Horiguchi can effectively apply the point fighting game to kickboxing, where it hasn’t really been proven at all. A few seconds of sparring recorded on a phone in 2015 doesn’t mean anything to the outcome of the fight, but the teaser of that point fighting style flummoxing Nasukawa for even a few moments has definitely got this writer intrigued.

If Horiguchi can perform even respectably here the world opens up for him. An Alistair Overeem style staggering of combat sports would be remarkable and an excellent way for Horiguchi to establish himself as Japan’s fighting superstar: something he was unable to do while being hidden away on UFC undercards.

Jack Slack wrote the biography Notorious: The Life and Fights of Conor McGregor, and hosts the Fights Gone By podcast.

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Kickboxing     Kickboxing is a combat sport that is roughly 2,000 years old, with the more modern version emerging in the U.S. during the 1970s. Renowned martial artists and movie stars such as Chuck Norris, Bruce Lee, and Jean-Claude Van Damme gave kickboxing an even greater platform, which led to a surge in kickboxing students.   How to Kickbox   The sport of kickboxing may come off as similar to boxing, karate, and especially Muay Thai. And while kickboxing does borrow elements from these disciplines, it primarily focuses on the four points of striking (hands and legs) as opposed to Muay Thai’s eight points (hands, legs, elbows, and knees). Additionally Muay Thai uses a clinch, while kickboxing does not.   Like any combat sport, it could take years of sparring, training, and amateur tournaments to prep your body for professional fighting. Kickboxing requires a fighter to not only dish out , but take a great deal of pain. Equipment includes boxing gloves, mouthguards, groin guards, and foot wraps.   Rules of Kickboxing   Kickboxing is a one-versus-one matchup that takes place over the course of three minute rounds. Depending on the type of match (for example, a title match is usually 12 rounds), the amount of rounds will differ. To ensure a fair fight, fighters can only take on matches within their respective weight class. Kickboxing takes place in a ring similar to regular boxing -- a raised padded canvas measuring about 20 to 24 feet squared with four ropes and four turnbuckles holding in the fighters. Fighters must obey the referee’s commands at all times. Failure to do so can result in a warning, loss of points, or even disqualification. There are four ways to win a match: By knocking out your opponent, a technical knockout when the referee declares the opposing fighter is unfit to continue, or by points. The fourth and most rare way is by doctor stoppage, or when a fighter is bloodied/damaged to the point where it’s determined they cannot continue the fight. Strikes with anything other than the fits or legs with result in a severe loss of points or even disqualification. If the point totals match at the end of a fight, it will result in a draw.   Similar to Muay Thai, kickboxers are smart to train their fast-twitch muscles to draw more explosiveness and power from their strikes. Bulk training will actually go against your advantage because these massive muscles typically move slower and provide no benefit in the ring.         Written by: Devin Pickell

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UFC 246 : Conor McGregor vs. Donald Cerrone PPV FULL SHOW ONLINE

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After a devastating defeat from Khabib Nurmagomedov in October 2018, Conor McGregor is going to make a comeback in the hurt business against a very less known contender Donald Cerrone. Both the are going in the ring with a loss in their last fight. It is going to be the main event of UFC 246 in T-Mobile Arena, Nevada USA, on the 18-01-2020. In the same card, Holly Holm will be facing Raquel Pennington in the co-main event, the pair first met in 2015 when Holm was awarded a split decision at UFC 184. https://www.instagram.com/p/B6COgJjhVbN/ Mcgregor is coming back to the ring to win a fight against Khabib who humiliated Conor in October 2018 when Conor quit in the fourth round in front of his fans. Khabib is going to test himself against the toughest contender of his career in Tony Ferguson, if Khabib wins, he may offer a rematch to the winner of Conor McGregor vs. Donald Cerrone. Let's have a Tale of tape to compare Conor and Donald Conor Notorious McGregor Vs. Donald Cowboy Cerrone Boxing, Kickboxing Fighting Style Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Muay Thai, Kickboxing 31 years Age 36 years 25 Professional Fights 50 21 Total Wins 36 4 Total Losses 13 5.9 Height in Feet 6.1 74 Reach in inches 73 170 Weight in pounds 170 Boxing Fighting Style Kickboxing, Muay Thai, BJJ Conor has an edge in this fight as he has shared the ring with a lot of the current and former champions and defeated most of them while Donal could never win a single championship fight. Donald appeared in 50 professional fights, and Conor appeared in 25. Conor Mcgregor was unstoppable for almost six years from 2010 to 2016 and won 15 professional bouts in that period while Donald’s winning streak is 8 consecutive fights. Both Conor and Donald have only one boxing match on their resumes, both were knocked out in their respective matches and they called it a day. Donald Cerrone never lost any professional kickboxing match in his 29 fights, he finished 19 kickboxing matches before the final bell. Conor is less experienced as compared to Donald, Conor Mcgregor appeared in a single amateur fight and stopped his opponent and Donald has won two amateur world titles: the first is Knockdown Classic and the second is  International Sport Karate Association. https://www.instagram.com/p/B6zETEpJvKq/ Donald has a rich resume in combat sports like boxing, kickboxing, and Mixed Martial Arts while Conor’s career is short but he managed to win three world titles in two UFC weight classes. The fight is fifty-fifty and it can go either side as both the fighters have gas tank issues but Mcgregor has an advantage while comparing the power of both the fighters, Conor has a slight better knockout percentage as compared to Donald’s. Prediction: Conor TKO3.

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Conor McGregor vs. Donald Cerrone Holly Holm vs. Raquel Pennington Diego Ferreira vs. Anthony Pettis Maycee Barber vs. Roxanne Modafferi Drew Dober vs. Nasrat Haqparast Grant Dawson vs. Chas Skelly Maurice Greene vs. Aleksei Oleinik Claudia Gadelha vs. Alexa Grasso Andre Fili vs. Sodiq Yusuff Askar Askarov vs. Tim Elliott Brian Kelleher vs. Ode Osbourne J.J. Aldrich vs. Sabina Mazo Aleksa Camur (Décision · R 3 05:00) vs. Justin Ledet WARNING: THIS SITE (MMAMAG.NET) DOES NOT STORE ANY FILES ON ITS SERVER. ALL CONTENT IS PROVIDED BY UNAFFILIATED THIRD PARTIES.

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