Love on Opposite Sides of the Ring

Part 24

Harry's pov...

It's been a week since I put Louis in the hospital, he made it out, and we went to the church to get him baptized. Pastor Charles was delighted to meet him and get to know him. He told us a funny but true story about his wife. They had been married for twenty years, and he said how she has always been a fan of boxing. She followed stats and everything. Even if Louis's stats were a little low, she still admired him cuz he kept going and he was the underdog in the now middleweight division.

So he went on to say how they would watch our old matches, but when it came to our match in Las Vegas, they were cheering for both of us. Her for Louis and him for me, and it was the funniest thing that occurred. Pastor Charles said that when Louis lost, she didn't talk to him for a week, and that threw Louis and I into a fit of laughter.

He continued by saying that even if Louis and I were gay and close to getting married, God always decides to choose what could be the least qualified people to do the most hardest tasks, and we resembled warriors just getting through the fights and wars of life. That no matter what came our way, and no matter how least qualified we felt, God always had a plan for those that are underdogs in life and will have a breakthrough.

By attending this church with Louis, I learned that God didn't mean to put this life on me to make me miserable, he just wanted to see how I could grow from here. How I could change Louis's life and my own. He took Dany away, because he believed I could carry on by myself and I was responsible enough to one day look after my own children and take care of Louis. I also didn't have to protect him all the time, because he could also protect me.

I didn't see our relationship as one-sided anymore. I saw it now as two broken men looking after each other because life has been rough.

Each day that passed by, I wanted to marry Louis more and more. We started making plans already for our wedding ceremony and even worked on getting our official marriage license. Pastor Charles even agreed to meet us at Louis's apartment to give us small marriage counseling sessions so we could be 100% sure we wanted to get married.

It was all working out...finally.

Today, after going to church, I had to continue training Louis. He had a match on December 24th, the day of his birthday, and I wanted him to win.

Right now it's the end of November, so we had a lot of work to do. I had him on the punching bags and speed punching bags. He was getting better and a lot faster. Next month I had a match in Hong Kong, China, so I needed some training time myself too. I decided that would be my last fight, because I had to keep training Louis. I wanted him to be an all-time Champion like me and to be able to redeem himself.

After deciding that I would be his only trainer, Louis had fired Troy, so he no longer was in the picture. In a way, I'm glad he did, because now I truly believe that my Louis can win the whole thing.

Well, as you are wondering about Liam, he had stopped being my assistant trainer and decided to get into boxing himself. The last time I saw him, was at Dany's funeral, and he told me how he found a new gym a few miles from our old one, and there was a trainer that was more than happy to take him and train him. I was very happy for him that he no longer wanted to be behind the scenes, but actually be in the scene.

He was the one I was going to fight in China and I was very excited. Louis had said he would cheer me on and I wanted him to come to China with me and help me train some more, so he agreed.

Since he was a lot better now, picking up pointers from me, he was good to practice and train with. You can say we are learning from one another.

At the moment, I had him doing 15 reps on the bench press of 100, yes 100. Louis was now 172, his ideal weight. I was very proud of him. I was working him to the bone, but he didn't mind.

Then, when he was done, we proceeded to leg presses. He did 20 reps of 125 and I thought that was good for today's weight training. I had to get him on the ropes for speed with his feet, that was very important.

That was pretty much the key to being a good boxer. If you have clumsy feet or two left feet, you lose focus. It's not gonna matter how good you are with your punches, if you're bad with your feet, then you're going nowhere.

After doing 60 minutes on the rope, I felt that was good for his training.

I had him drinking two green infused protein shakes and I felt he was more ready for the fight.