Fight Club 1/10/10

[tyler_gone]

Posters had handwavilyshhhh! gone up in a variety of locations all over the island this week, and now it was Sunday evening, with Ghanima and Tyler waiting in the gym.

"Welcome back to our returning members, and hello to those of you that are new," Ghanima began crisply. "I am Lady Ghanima Atreides, he's Tyler Durden. You should have seen the rules on the door when you came in, and if you don't agree with them, you may turn around and leave now."

Tyler nodded, and folded his arms in a way that suggested he would do the ejecting personally if dissidents didn't go on their own.

... it had seriously been too long since his last fight.

"You've been doing introductions for a week. You're probably sick of it, I know I'm sick of it, let's fight. If there's anything weird about you -- you turn into Jello when somebody punches you, you can't be bruised, you can only fight wearing a cape, whatever -- tell one of us before you go and get hurt or hurt somebody else. For now" -- he gestured into the group -- "you two, you two, you two, and, Ghani, I thinkwe should have matches today. I say you fight the mayor."

"If we're doing exhibition fights, then Miss Walters, please indulge me by showing Tyler how much you've improved," Ghanima said sweetly. "And you and you, as well. Everyone else, grab someone you haven't fought before. Make a new friend, and then hit them."

[OOC: OCD up. We are living dangerously and leaving this in the wrong place. Edit: Also, I worded it badly, but yes, you can sign up or drop anytime.]

Comments

Re: Match #4: Bruce Wayne/Algren

[shiroi_tiger]

"And why should you? It's working," Algren pointed out, raising an eyebrow as he slipped back into his ready stance. "If I can't avoid your throws, Mr. Wayne, then that's my problem, not yours."

Re: Match #4: Bruce Wayne/Algren

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"I don't learn anything if I just keep doing it the easy way," Bruce countered. He stepped forward and threw a jab at Algren's shoulder to get his attention, followed quickly by a hook to the gut.

Re: Match #4: Bruce Wayne/Algren

[shiroi_tiger]

"Fair-" Algren let his shoulder roll with the jab, throwing his arm downward to block the hook, "-enough."

And the fist that he hadn't just used to block with was now en-route to Bruce's nose.

Re: Match #4: Bruce Wayne/Algren

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

Bruce leaned to move his nose - and the rest of his face - out of the way of the punch. And then, since Algren brought faces into it, he thrust forward for a headbutt.

Re: Match #4: Bruce Wayne/Algren

[shiroi_tiger]

... Okay. Algren was short. There was no way he could move out of the way of that without ducking. Which was, essentially, what he did, and then moved forward to throw his shoulder into Bruce's gut.

All of the Samurai training in the world still needed to take a back seat to a bit of body weight, now and then.

Re: Match #4: Bruce Wayne/Algren

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

Bruce hadn't been expecting that. Algren was scrappier than Bruce would have thought.

As he was going to the mat, he tried to grab Algren to pull him down, too.

Re: Match #4: Bruce Wayne/Algren

[shiroi_tiger]

Algren's tendency to throw whatever punches he had when the odds were stacked against him had kept him from being killed in the face of a good deal more adversity than just this friendly spar.

It wasn't going to keep him from hitting the mat again, however, with an oof and a wince. Getting up was going to take a bit more effort this time than the last time had, if the throbbing under his scars had anything to say about it.

"And match?"

Re: Match #4: Bruce Wayne/Algren

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Sure," Bruce said as he got to his feet. He offered Algren a hand to help him up. "Good match, sir."

Re: Match #4: Bruce Wayne/Algren

[shiroi_tiger]

"Good match," Algren agreed, smiling faintly as he accepted the hand. "Perhaps if there's a next time, I'll stand a slightly better chance against those throws of yours."