**Motherless Bastard**

Years of training, countless hours in the gym, bloodied knuckles, bruised ribs, broken noses — and the very first thing he had been drilled on, beaten into him from day one, was to never make the first move.

It was better to let them come to you, let them show their hand. That way you would know their system, their techniques, their rhythm, their weaknesses and only then was he asked to strike.

Most people into the ring knows about all this. And he’d broken it. ...