Chapter 13 - Jeremy Gritham Versus Alfonzo Drummond

When Landon and the trainers got out of sight from the group, the next two fighters walked to their sides to warm up. Jeremy is on the left side of the ring mostly doing a lot of stretches for him. On the right, Alfonzo was mostly just jabbing and warming up his footwork. After some time, Mr. Syvone signaled the two fighters to enter the ring. As both men entered the ring, a grin began to appear on Jeremy's face. Mr. Syvone stood in the middle of the ring and looked at both fighters for a bit.

"We are beginning the Bantamweight final fight with Jeremy Gritham on the left of me," Mr. Syvone said as Jeremy stepped up from the door to be closed in the middle. "To the right of me is Alfonzo Drummond," as this was said Alfonzo moved up from his side to get closer to the middle. "Are both of you guys ready?"

"I am ready for this fight, Mr.Syvone," Jeremy said with a smile on his face.

"I want to get this fight going so I can beat this man," Alfonzo said as he looked directly at Jeremy.

"Oh, let's go, Alfonzo," Jeremy said as he stared back at his opponent. "I can not wait to beat you."

Mr. Syvone was smiling as he was watching what was happening in front of him. "I love this energy, you two," Mr. Syvovne said as he stepped back a bit. "SET, GO!"

Jeremy began by taking a step back and angling himself so that his blind eye does not greatly affect him. Alfonzo tried to step closer to the right side to make it harder for Jeremy to see him. Jeremy just kept moving to the left and began to start throwing some jabs at his target. Alfonzo was dodging the punches as he kept trying to get the right side of Jeremy. Jeremy keeps moving back to not allow this to happen. Alfonzo struck at Jeremy's right leg as he stepped back, it knocked him down. Jeremy looked surprised as he landed on the ground. Alfonzo tried to kick Jeremy in his head, but Jeremy rolled backward and pushed himself back up to not continue to be on the ground. As Aflonzo missed his kick, he stepped his left leg down and waited for Jeremy to get himself up. Alfonzo kicked Jeremy straight in his stomach, Jeremy looked to feel pain from that hit. As Alfonzo tried to kick Jeremy again, the one-eye fighter grabbed his left leg and held it close to his side. Alfonzo tried to get his leg free but Jeremy was not letting it go. Jeremy lowered the knee to make Alfonzo feel more uncomfortable with his leg bending unusually. As Alfonzo began to jump around to move away from Jeremy's pursuit, Jeremy tripped and knocked Alfonzo down. As Alfonzo landed on the ground, Jeremy tried to get into his knowledge of wrestling and make his opponent back flat on the floor of the ring. As this struggle was happening, Mr. Syvone stepped in to end the first round. Both fighters got up from what they were doing and walked back to their side of the corner. The trainers walked up to both of the fighters to check up on them and to see if there were any major injuries on them.

As that was happening, Adrian noticed someone from the corner of his eye. He lowered his head down to whisper to Martin, "Looks like Landon is down with all of his testings, do you want to come with me to go talk to him?"

As Martin looked around he too saw Landon, "Yeah, sure let's go talk to him, I got my questions to ask anyway."

As both men walked up to Landon. They noticed Landon was mostly walking in their direction anyway. As they stopped them, Landon looked calm and then turned into more of a surprised look. "Holy shit I did not notice y'all big body motherfuckers walking up to me," Landon said as he flinched. "Do not walk up on me like that."

"Shit, my bad man," Adrian said as he felt a little bad for what he did. "I mostly wanted to walk to congratulate you for winning your match, and Martin wanted to ask you some questions."

"Thank you man," Landon said as he gave Adrian a fist bump in appreciation for his teammate. "And yeah I can answer your question, Martin. What is it?"

Martin looked nervous as he was trying to word what is going to ask. "How big or long is the needle exactly?"

Landon began to laugh as he realized what exactly he was asking. "Dude it is not even a big needle, you will be fine bro."

Martin looked more relaxed after hearing it. "Thank you man, I appreciate it." Adrian looks up and sees that Mr. Syvone is walking back to the middle.

"Look, Mr. Syvone is about to start up the second round for the match," Adrian said as the group of three walked back to where they were standing.

Mr. Syvone looked at both of the men after they got cleaned up from the blood and sweat. "Are both of you men ready to continue?"

"You mean ready to beat this motherfucker's ass, then I am ready," Jeremy said as he looked at Alfonzo.

"Same here, you old fuck," Alfonzo said with a smile on his face.

"SET, GO!" Mr. Syvone said as he took a step back to let the fighters continue to go against each other.

Jeremy again did the strategy of stepping back to let Alfonzo move forward. As Alfonzo moved forward, Jeremy put his right arm up for more of a guard. Alfonzo switched up his stance in reaction to Jeremy's guard. Jeremy then began to inch forward to prepare for his actual offense. Jeremy began to throw some jabs mostly using his left hand. Alfonzo kept moving till Jeremy's hand quickly moved from a guard to a hard punch that connected to the jaw. The entire crowd looked very shocked by this sudden punch, It can even be very apparent on Mr. Syvone's face. His jaw was dropped a bit but not as far as Alfonzo's, who began to stumble a bit trying to regain his composure. As Alfonzo tried to not allow himself to fall, Jeremy tried to move in to get in a clean uppercut to the jaw. Unfortunately, Alfonzo stepped to the side, avoiding the punch before landing a punch to the back of Mr. Syvone's head. Even though there were helmets on, the punch looked to have hurt a lot more than expected. As Jeremy stepped back, Alfonzo shook his left hand focusing more on the pain in his hands. Alfonzo then got over his pain and continued to move forward as Jeremy tried to get his hands up to reestablish his guard up. More jabs were thrown between both fighters as they tried to get the other to stumble again. The thing is both of them still had their smiles just enjoying the match. Jeremy was still circling to the left to allow him to see his target. Alfonzo instead of circling to the right began to go left. Jeremy looked surprised that it was happening, but he became a lot more excited than earlier.

"So you are done trying to be like the rest of them and trying to fight me fairly," Jeremy said as he was mostly just moving.

"Hell yeah, it wouldn't be fair and besides it looks like you are used to people doing that anyway," Alfonzo said as he was moving too.

"Thank you, I appreciate that," Jeremy said before throwing a jab at Alfonzo.

Alfonzo dodged it and both continued, dodging and throwing jabs at each other. Both men kept going until Mr. Syvone stepped in to signal the end of the second round. Jeremy walked back to his corner still with the wide ear-to-ear grin across his face as he sat on a stool so the trainers could check on him. Alfonzo sat down still with a smile but not as wide as Jeremy. Both men just kept staring intensely at each other as if they did not want this match to end at all instead to have it keep on going forever. After some time, Mr. Syvone walked back to the middle and both men knew what that meant as they rose back up ready to continue their match. Mr. Syvone looked at both men and continued the match. Both men moved forward prepared to fully enjoy this match. They were constantly moving, hunting for a winning position but neither man was willing to let the other have it. What was surprising was that neither of them looked more tired than the other. It was an even match. Jeremy started throwing more jabs than before which seemed to catch his opponent off guard as one of them connected. Jeremy saw this as an opportunity to get a hard hit, which landed causing his opponent to step back as Jeremy lowered himself. He gets down and lunges at Alfonzo's legs, taking him down. As Alfonzo hit the ground, he rolled to his stomach to try to get up but Jeremy was not letting that happen. Jeremy grabbed at Alfonzo's right wrist and pulled them towards him, limiting his ability to get himself back up. Jeremy then starts to throw punches with his left hand but Alfonzo was bracing himself and getting his free arm up ready to take the hits. As Jeremy was attempting to throw some hard punches, he threw a couple of jabs with his other hand, letting go of Alfonzo's wrist. Alfonzo, after feeling a looser grip on his wrist, began to get himself back up from Jeremy. Jeremy felt the shift in his position and tried to break Alfonzo back down. Alfonzo gets back down but is still pressed on to get himself back to his feet. As Alfonzo brought himself back onto his feet, Jeremy began to lower himself. He then violently thrust his up to get the momentum needed to bring his opponent off of the ground. He then brought him up to the air for a bit to return him to the floor, not intending for it to cause pain, but to open something up for him. After Alfonzo hit the floor, he brace himself and attempted to break his grip on Jeremy but found it difficult. Then Jeremy moved around to the point where if Alfonzo reached his hands out then he could grab at his opponent's bicep. Then Jeremy took his hand and grabbed at Alfonzo's right elbow to pull it off of the ground. Jeremy then brought the elbow closer to Alfonzo's head and put his own chest on top of his opponent's head. Jeremy began to squeeze Alfonzo's arm to affect his breathing. He waited for a bit, he began to dip his shoulders down and begin to roll for a bit. He continues to roll for a bit while tightening his grip more and more as Alfonzo began to lose more of his breath. It got to the point where Alfonzo began to slowly begin to stop moving a bit. At this point, Mr. Syvone stepped in to end the match, declaring it a win for Jeremy by Submission. As Jeremy got up after almost choking out his opponent, he reached down to help Alfonzo back up with a look of genuine concern for what he almost did to him. The crowd cheered not only for Jeremy's accomplishment but for the show of sportsmanship between both of the fighters and the level of determination on both men's faces. Jeremy walked Alfonzo to a chair so he can sit down and catch his breath. As he returned back to the middle, Mr. Syvone stood there patiently waiting and ready to say what he wants to say.

"THE WINNER OF THE BANTAMWEIGHT CLASS IS JEREMY GRITHAM!" Mr. Syvone said as he raised Jeremy's arm up to the sound of the crowd roaring in cheers for Jeremy.

"JEREMY! JEREMY! JEREMY!" The crowd chanted as Jeremy walked up and began to bow to them showing his appreciation as he is tearing up from the unexpected support he was receiving.

"Jeremy you can go out of the ring to go do your testing and get your shorts," Mr. Syvone said as Jeremy got done bowing to the crowd.

"Will do and thank you so much for this opportunity for us," Jeremy said as he gave Mr. Syvone a high five as he walks out of the ring.

Mr. Syvone turned back around to the crowd as they cheered for Jeremy as they see him run to the locker room where the trainers are still in there. "For the next match, at Featherweight, we got Aaron Levi versus Edwardo Espinso!"