The King of Fighters '94 Rebirth

Chapter 15: Professional Fight

"It was a busy day in the state of California, USA. I was at home on that Sunday morning taking the newspaper and seeing my mail when an envelope caught my attention, I decided to enter the house putting the milk on my pet cat's bowl called Pooh and entering the room to see on the couch what that suspicious invitation was all about. I always thought of me as a great fighter and the truth is that some years ago, I was a professional fighter which had a career full of ups and downs. It was like about six years ago..."

"Welcome to one more Fight Night at Citizens Business Bank Arena, Ontario, California. And it is with great pleasure that we bring to you the so awaited match between the Top 4 Heavy D! and the fighter closest to the champion belt, the Top 1 Jason Martinez which obtained the challenge before trying the title match." Was speaking to the microphone the presenter wearing a suit and tie in the middle of the ring announcing the fighters arrive. "In a moment we will be starting the so awaited match of the night, heavy-weight category of 12 rounds." The lights went off for a moment and the spotlight focus was being now the fighters' arrival to the ring. "In the red corner, from the Gather gym weighing 248,4 pounds, the top-ranking Jason Martinez!" The man raised his arm pointing towards where the boxer would come out in the middle of the random lights, it not took so long the large build man to appear between his coach and assistant wearing green shorts and a short spiky hair walking to the ring warming up and waving to the audience and consequently up in the ring. "In the blue corner, from the Rage gym weighing 249 pounds, the fourth from the national rank Heavy D! trying to approach increasingly the champion." The presentation was made equally to the challenger which came out with his typical tuft, black shorts and his dark skin, the same entered the ring with his auxiliary. The referee approached the center while the presenter left the ring, the two fighters introduced themselves leaving their respective corners and at the sign from the referee to the fight begin, they greeted each other with a glove touch of their fists. "Round 1, boxing!" It was the referee shout soon after the sound bell. "All I have to do is to make him fight at my pace, he can be a good fighter but he can be no match for me." The thoughts from the young Heavy D! were always overconfident, he always was a fighter very cocky, because of his luck or his natural talent he was no small talk, a lot of fighters really should respect his strength, besides he was not yet in a world where everything could change.

Both fighters assumed a fighting pose, both were high and Heavy D! being a right-handed fighter maintained his left leg in the front with his fists lifted on his face's height leaving aways his left arm in the front of his body to strike more soft blows and use his body weight on his predominant leg, the right leg. Being a medium to short range fighter, Heavy D! remained static trying to analyze his opponent before everything without moving on the ring, while Jason began to surround him. "This fighter gets on my nerves, he is probably wanting to analyze me now, but I did my homework too." Jason thought until he suddenly started to attack his opponent by his left side with left, quick and accurate jabs that were defended by him leaving him without reaction, the fight pressure was one of professionals. "Fast!" Heavy D! thought surprised with his opponent's speed which was beyond his placing on the rank, even he not thinking it could be beyond his level he knew he had to take care, and his strategy would take effect by some way, he always was a defensive style fighter which bet a lot on his counters. "And the fight begins alarmingly, the challenger is attacked and surrounded until he shows some reaction against Jason, which aims to fight the national champion and doesn't think on the possibility of being lowered on the rank." The announcer narrated the fight as it was seen, Heavy D! was only on the defensive being surrounded by his opponent which did not stop throwing quick jabs and some combinations of one-two making him to back gradually while trying to adapt to the pace and take his speed. "I need to do something." He gave some steps to the right when attacked by the left and walked a bit backward retreating until he realized that near his back was the corner few meters away. "Damn, if he corners me, I'm lost." His thoughts did not bring the desire achievement.

A quick jab barely could be seen and soon after a straight right struck against Heavy D! that with a quick reaction blocked the two punches from his opponent and found himself exactly on the corner, completely cornered. "Wow! And it seems like the challenger is completely cornered on the corner after defending two quick blows from the number one rank Jason Martinez! Are we expecting some kind of positive reaction?" The announcer kept going with his comments while the young challenger kept his guard up. "I need to stay calm... if it's a face-to-face fight that you want don't regret yourself, you got it!" Heavy D! stuck on his thoughts and confident enough to accept the challenge from the first of the rank of fighting a close combat just waited and analyzed fully assuming a defensive pose. "Whoever you are you're risking your luck easing my work of hitting blows. Face it soon, you have nowhere to run." Jason seemed to fight his opponent on his thoughts while throwing punch after punch, always starting with jabs, one-two and risking a straight right once in a while which were blows defended by Heavy D! "And what we see at this moment is an adversary with no way out, Heavy D! just defends frighteningly strong blows!" The comment about the fight continued on until arrived by Heavy D!'s right side a left hook gave by Jason hitting him on his right face quickly and with the shock an impact almost foresaw from Heavy D! falling to his left side, but holding on the strings to avoid the fall and raising up quickly more to the center of the ring, thus forcing his opponent to turn around.

"You managed to remain without a fall but it seems like your plan to fight me cornered just made you realize what big mistake you have committed." The boxer had convinced himself that the fight could be won, but seemed like his thoughts were foresee by his opponent which faced him before he began throwing jabs seemingly harmless which the majority was defended.