An African Adventure of A Warrior

Chapter 99 A Return To Africa

29 September 1985

Lori was at home as she was finishing up a proposal for her upcoming meeting tomorrow

Meanwhile with Lucy writing some poems for her recital in week's time which was an opportunity for her as she will be going to New York City to perform

Meanwhile with Lola

She was at a promotional event  signing autographs and taking pictures with fans as well as talking to them, she was promoting her movies so that more people can watch them which would help elevate her into a big time Hollywood superstar which would get her more auditions and movies if it goes well

Meanwhile with Leni she was hard at work at her receptionist job and she was busy giving keys to guests and getting everything ready in their rooms as well everything else in the hotel

Meanwhile with Lily she was doingwell in her second year of college as she was making more and more friends as well as finding love again and again but academically she was still fine despite a few earlier issues

Meanwhile with Lisa she was doing great in her role as school principal and she had a great relationship with all the teachers and most of the students but sadly there was one exception, her former best friend Darcy who was still mad at her for what she did to Lincoln 18 years ago and since then she never talked to her or even wanted to see her ever since until the day she was hired by her into Royal Woods Elementary school and now both remained professional and had a good professional relationship but they never talked about anything outside of work

Meanwhile with The Heavyweight division here was the unchanged Top 10 heavyweight rankings of the heavyweight division

Bruno Martin ( Champion)

1 Tim Witherspoon
2 Mike Tyson
3 Michael Dokes
4 Lincoln Loud
5 Mike Weaver
6 Frank Bruno
7 Carl Williams
8 Tony Tucker
9 Mitch Green
10 Jesse Ferguson

A lot of the heavyweights of the division decided to take the year off as they had plans for next year but a few still fought into the latter months of the year

James Broad continued on his quest to  resurrect his career with a knockout over Fernando Montes in the 9th round

Alfredo Evangelista came off his losses as he won 3 fights back to back against Marty Capasso, James Dixon and Louis Pergraud Ngatchou

Meanwhile with Mike Weaver following his loss to Lincoln Loud he fought James Quick Tillis in a rematch of their first fight which went the distance he won a unanimous decision in that encounter but this time he stopped Tillis in the 12th round of 12 rounds

Michael Dokes didn't fight again this year but he's still one of the best heavyweights of the division as he knew 1986 would be a big year for him in his journey to regain the title and Now Mike Tyson and Lincoln Loud were gonna fight each other for the right to fight him next year which he was fine with as He beat Loud in the past and never fought Iron Mike before but he believed he could beat him

Meanwhile with Tim Witherspoon he was training very hard getting into shape as his latest shot for the title is only 2 months away against The Dangerous Heavyweight Champion Of The World Bruno Martin who also was getting ready for his fight with Tim Witherspoon in January

Meanwhile, Don King had successfully signed Lincoln Loud and Mike Tyson in seperate contracts for their fight this is how he did it, he went to Tyson and said he got the money and he got Loud to sign, which was half truth before Tyson signed and told him to go see about Loud and then he went to Loud and told him he got Tyson and the money and when the smoke all cleared he had $60 Million Dollars in the bank and both fighters names on a contract and the fight was on with a few hitches, he was talking to all those representatives of the countries that were interested to host this fight but most of them just couldn't bid higher than 25-27 Million Dollars for each fighter and King couldn't accept it as he promised them $30 Million Dollars to each fighter which broke down the negotiations and those countries withdrew their bids one by one until Pik Botha, an American advisor to South Africa's dictator P.W Botha came up with a solution as he knew this was a fight they had to host, after negotiating with Don King he persuaded the President Botha that the publicity such a high profile event would generate would help his regime and make the world think Apartheid is a thing of the past in South Africa and P.W Botha agreed to have the fight and then they approached Don King and bid $60 Million Dollars for the fight to be held here, former Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi came in as a sponsor to the event, providing the purse money for the athletes and covering other major expenses.

After having the money ready and officially announcing at a press conference where the fight will be held and they had intense and heated talks with Botha's representatives about The health and safety of the fighters down there with Apartheid still raging before the representatives assured King nothing will happen to the fighters or other people working the fight and he also demanded that they let black South Africans into the arena on the night of the fight the terms were all accepted, this wasn't the first international heavyweight fight held in South Africa but it was the first one to have to foreign nationals fighting each other with neither being a local in the country

Lincoln was shocked as he was watching the press conference and now he will be heading back to South Africa to fight Mike Tyson, he accepted it as long as he knew in South Africa he knew the lay of the land since he lived there and Tyson didn't so he might have the advantage

AN: Done I know it's short but this chapter was a continuation of the previous one and I just wanted to announce this and all of you heard right Lincoln Loud will be returning to South Africa a country he lived for the rest of his childhood ( 1967-1972) to fight Mike Tyson so does this give Loud the advantage or not please leave some thoughts on the chapter I'll see you later bye