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“You can say anything you want. If there’s anything I can help with, I’ll help!”
Dave White eagerly waited for his answer at the uncompromising statement, ‘I want something right now’.
Dave has already collected some of the best players in the world at the WFC.
However, in front of a new talent, Dave always looked like a middle school student in love for the first time.
‘Just talk. I’ll support you with anything you want!’
The wish of a player who has just turned 17 was almost certain to come true.
You might want a top-of-the-line sports car to drive the coastal roads.
Maybe you want to enjoy a boat party with the beauties on Miami Beach.
If that was the case, I could make it happen.
Some might call it an unprofitable investment, but in Dave’s eyes, Innocent was a promising prospect with more than enough value.
However, the request for acquittal was completely different from what Dave had expected.
-Can you send some players to Korea?
“hmm? You want me to send players?”
-yes. In a few months we will have a title fight in Korea. I want to properly prepare for that game.
“Are you serious? Do you really need a sparring partner?”
-yes. That’s all I need now.
At first I thought I heard something wrong.
Or I wondered if this was a Korean-style joke.
However, Mugyeol sincerely wanted a ‘fighter’.
Mugyeol was not interested in any other desires other than the desire for money and fame.
I didn’t want to say
‘Is there a player like this’ or ‘I mean latte’, but actually, when I look at young American fighters these days, it was Dave who came out with a sigh.
There were many talented prospects, but most of them were more interested in raising awareness and making money rather than training.
In the meantime, flawless gave Dave a fresh shock.
A young player asking for a sparring partner!
It was Dave’s heart that he wanted to help such a player, even by giving away his power and personal connections as well as his emergency fund.
“Okay. I’ll send you two top-notch sparring partners in one week!”
Dave was a do-it-yourself man.
The WFC’s heavyweight roster was piled high with out-of-rank players.
Among them, there were players who had already started to decline, but there were also many promising players who could bloom their talents at any time.
Who should I send to Mugyeol?
After much thought, Dave finally made a decision.
* * *
While Dave White is preparing a sparring partner to send to Korea.
RCF has officially announced the schedule for the middleweight title fight between Han Dae-geun and Cha Moo-gyeol.
[Han Dae-geun vs Cha Moo-gyeol Clash at RCF 100! The match schedule is August 17, 2021]
[RCF 100 main event full of luxury cards is middleweight title fight!]
[Chairman Jang Young-gil “RCF 100 will be the best event in RCF history.”]
[RCF 100th tournament with a recent surge in PPV sales Can we break the record for the highest sales?]
The title fight was confirmed, but the situation with Ungyeol was still not very good.
RCF blocked player exchanges, and Seok-jin, who was the only ally, suffered an Achilles tendon injury that took half a year to recover.
That’s why I can’t spar, and I only have to do conditioning and technical training.
Im Jin-soo muttered as he looked at Moo-gyeol with worried eyes.
“No, is this really okay?”
“why?”
“What if I can’t even spar and have a title fight like this?”
“You still have plenty of time left.”
“Hey, 5 months go by soon? If you close your eyes and open them, you will be weighing in.”
“is it.”
“You also saw Han Dae-geun grab Jo Jun-seok, didn’t you? He even said he was playing with a rib injury.”
“He did well.”
“Besides, even Jinman… he said he didn’t even try it once.”
“…….”
“It’s hard without sparring. I have to get a partner somehow.”
“…I guess so.”
“What do we do? Right now, I’m looking into the local gyms, but this snot-sized fighting world has nowhere that RCF can’t reach. Seriously, he even made an international call to Thailand yesterday.”
“Why Thailand?”
“I was thinking of bringing in the kids who are standing there and sparring with them.”
“Aren’t they not on the ground?”
“It’s better than sucking your fingers, though.”
Im Jin-soo looked very nervous, but Moo-gyeol seemed quite relaxed.
“Brother, don’t fret too much. it will work out somehow.”
“You don’t look nervous! You’re too carefree dude.”
“But you did a lot of kick training in the meantime.”
“That’s true…”
While not sparring, Moo-gyeol and Im Jin-su devoted themselves to kick training.
As a result of intensive training, his kicking skills and power improved day by day, and Mugyul also gained more and more confidence in kicking.
“What do you do when your skills improve? I don’t have a sparring partner to try out!”
The moment when Im Jin-soo complained.
The door squeaked open and two tall foreigners entered the gym.
“What is it? Suddenly, why… this Excuse Me? May I Help You?”
The men inside the wall suddenly appeared.
Im Jin-soo was taken aback, but Mu-gyeol did not look surprised at all.
“Dave kept his promise.”
“Hmm? Dave?”
“Greetings bro. These are our new sparring partners.”
“A sparring partner?”
* * *
Brothers of WFC middleweight prospects Kyle Chandler and Ben Chandler.
Just a week ago, they were just rookies waiting for the WFC undercard match (a match with a relatively low weight before the main match).
I couldn’t imagine going to Korea because I had to quickly build a winning streak and settle down in the WFC.
Dave White contacted them directly.
Being contacted by Dave is quite thrilling for the new WFC players.
However, Dave delivered the departure schedule instead of the match schedule.
-Go to Korea. Train there for three months with perfect results.
“yes? Suddenly?”
-okay. If there is any development there, I will hold the last game of the undercard right away.
“Am I really!?”
The last match of the under card is rather more focused than the main card, so it is a dreamlike opportunity for a rookie.
“I will go!”
Brother Chandler had no reason to turn down this opportunity.
So the brothers set off for Korea without any prior information.
The Chandler brothers’ first impression of Innocent was not very good.
The size of the gym was much smaller than I thought, and there was only one hitting coach without a conditioning wrestling jiu-jitsu coach.
At least, Ben, the younger brother, was always very interested in oriental culture, so he greeted Moo-gyeol and Im Jin-soo quite warmly.
“Hello-! Good bitch!”
“Hi, nice to meet you. Thank you for greeting me in Korean, but it’s ‘evening’, not that bitch. That bitch means ‘that bitch’ in Korean.”
“Puhaha, I made a stupid mistake. By the way, you speak English well!”
Unlike Ben, who quickly became friendly with people thanks to his extroverted personality, Kyle was not very talkative.
I came to Korea on Dave’s orders, but I didn’t like the poor facilities.
Still, since it was from Dave White, it’s not without reason.
That handsome Korean guy might have a different power than he looks.
“Kyle Ben. Thank you for coming this far. Shall we take a day off and start sparring tomorrow?”
“no. It doesn’t matter if you do it from today.”
Kyle wanted to quickly match the integrity.
“good. Let’s do it.”
After warming up with a light conditioning routine, Kyle climbed into the Octagon.
‘Let’s see where and how much’
Kyle Chandler was a 2020 NCAA All-American and the 7th ranked wrestler in the National Collegiate Rankings in 2020.
On top of that, since he had been training boxing and jiu-jitsu since middle school, it was very natural for him to become an MMA fighter.
After entering CSOF, the third-ranked organization in the United States, in one year, he won four consecutive victories and proudly signed a contract with WFC.
I knew that I would only walk on a solid path from now on, so I didn’t even like the reality that I couldn’t even enter the WFC undercard for 8 months and was now in a small gym in Far East Asia.
Sometimes-.
As soon as the ball rang, Kyle began to press forward.
Unlike mass sparring in Korea, sparring in the United States is sparring at an intensity close to that of a match.
BURBBUCK–!!
Fists hitting the guard lightly and a smooth wrestling linkage.
Without time to react, Mugyeol was steamed up by hitting and grappling, and it was only in the 2nd round that he was able to barely catch the distance.
However, the second round was over just as the blows began to hit.
“Now, take a 10-minute break. Then rotation!”
Next up was Kyle’s younger brother, Ben.
“Please take good care of me!”
I walked the path of a gymnast from a young age, but after going through my mid-teens, I switched from gymnastics to MMA because I grew taller.
Recognized for his bouncy physical ability and batting talent, he signed a contract with Fellator, the world’s second-largest organization, and received a love call from the WFC by making 1st round KOs in two consecutive matches.
His main weapon is elasticity and explosive strikes like a rubber man from a gymnast.
Ben also showed an overwhelming appearance throughout the two rounds.
“Stop stop-! Two rounds over! It’s a break!”
Kyle and Ben organize their sparring with light finishing exercises as if this is not a big deal.
However, Mugyeol fell into a fresh shock.
These kids are so awesome!
‘There are levels in this sport’.
These are the words of heavyweight legend Daniel Cormier.
It’s a simple word, but there is no sentence that better describes the ecology of MMA.
Those who beat the drug dealers in the frontier groups and eat champions gather at CSOF Fellator.
Even those who showed overwhelming skills in the periphery often find themselves wandering outside the ranking range in CSOF Fellator.
However, players who emerge from winning streaks in these organizations receive call-ups from the world’s top organization, the WFC.
It’s been a pretty tough journey up to this point, but in fact, entering the WFC roster is where the real competition begins.
In the WFC, where the strongest people in the world gather, you have to fight fiercely to win the rankings and win the title match to be called the best in the world.
Even though Kyle and Ben haven’t competed in a single match in the WFC, they’re just getting started on that ‘great path’.
When Mugyeol met them directly, I was able to clearly feel what Daniel Cormier meant by ‘level’.
The 7th All-American Kyle’s wrestling pressure was monstrous.
It was not easy to even read the direction of Ben’s bouncing irregular strike.
‘These are the WFC players!’
Given the opportunity to spar with these guys, you have to go all out and get as much as you can!
Mugyeol repeated rounds and rounds until he ran out of stamina.
After that, I played three more rounds with Kyle and four more rounds with Ben.
He continued to spar until he was knocked down by Ben’s Superman punch.
“Perfect I think it would be better to end here today.”
It was to the point that Ben, tired of his grit, took off his gloves first.
“Kyle Ben. thank you for today Let’s meet again tomorrow.”
“okay.”
for three days after that.
Days of intense sparring continued, but Mugyeol was unable to win a single round.
“Thank you for your effort-.”
“okay. See you tomorrow.”
Back at the dorm, Kyle and Ben talk about sparring with no results.
“Why did Ben Dave send us here?”
“well. You said you would give me the last match on the undercard if I got something.”
“It did. But he didn’t seem special at all.”
“He’s a good boy, though. We decided to go to a Korean restaurant together next week.”
“There are many good people in our hometown.”
“is it.”
“I honestly don’t know why Dave sent me here.”
Unlike the laid-back Ben, Kyle seemed impatient.
“Damn, three months. I can’t be wasting my time here.”
“Brother, let’s not be in too much of a hurry.”
“You are two years younger than me.”
“That’s true…”
“I’m going to go back to Dave if there’s nothing special within a week.”
“what? So, what about the last match on the undercard?”
“Right now, it’s more important to play even in a small game. I can’t throw my career into such an uncertain practice.”
Unlike Kyle, who had a complicated state of mind, Mugyeol’s situation was quite simple.
Sparring with two people during the day, technical training at night.
It takes a much higher level of skill to win a sparring with the Chandler brothers.
More refined strikes and agile grappling techniques and smooth linkages between techniques.
Meeting the Chandler brothers gave Mugyeol a new wall and at the same time provided great motivation.
Cha Mu-gyeol was not the kind of person who gets frustrated when he encounters a wall.
Rather, he was a human who did everything he could to jump over that wall.
Boom woof woo-.
One dawn when I kicked the leather of my newly bought punching bag.
A hologram suddenly appeared in front of Mugyeol’s eyes.
[The skill level rises through training!]
[The kick level has risen to ‘C’!]
“……!”
At that moment, a long-standing question of innocence was resolved.
Skills are not something that can only be raised with points.
Even in real life, if you devote yourself to skill training, the level rise will be reflected in the status window someday.
And the very next moment, a new hologram popped up.
[All skill levels have reached ‘C’ grade or higher!]
[The second ‘Challenge Mission’ challenge is available!]
[Challenge cost: 1500pt]
[Reward 1: Skill proficiency]
[Reward 2: 2000pt]
[Reward 3: ???]
Finally, the second challenge mission came to mind.
Once again, there was an opportunity to raise the fighting level in an infinite virtual space.
