Setting the scene…
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The Unlikely Fighter: A Comedy of Errors
Desperate for cash, a fellow decided to enter a fight club... for cash. Turns out, he was surprisingly good at punching people for profit, quickly becoming the undisputed king of the 'I Need Rent Money' championship.
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Previously
…The dough incident, while mortifying, had somehow cemented our friendship. And as I munched on a cookie, I realized that maybe, just maybe, I was starting to understand what Brenda meant. Maybe being too good wasn't the goal. Maybe just being good enough, just enough to pay the rent and keep Mr. Henderson's lemon face from permanently implanting itself in my nightmares, was all I needed. But the rumble of Boris’s threat, the icy glare he’d given me, still echoed in the back of my mind. And I knew, with a certainty that settled deep in my gut, that my little flour-dusted training sessions, as comical as they were, were only the beginning. The real fight was still to come.