The man with initials instead of a name had landed a couple of nice punches.But Philli wasn't done yet. Landing a final punch, he knocked EB to the ground. As the bell rang,  Philli sagged against his corner, waiting for the decision.

"AND THE WINNER, BY SPLIT DECISION...PHILLI-STEIN!!!"

Philli found enough strength to aknowledge the crowd, then walked to his opponent and shook his hand firmly.

"Well fought. mabye i'll see you next competition."

Sweeney was home to the streets of New York with JackPepper. Sweeney was skipping along the streets of New York to the hot joint of the boxing arena. Still of no idea why I didn't sign up, Sweeney thought to himself. He skips along to the right of the sidewalk with his pet frog Mr. Albert to join the crowd. Fights along the first round got Sweeney pumped. Eating popcorn and drinking his Mtn Dew while watching. At the end of the fights. The crowd soon fanish along like a dust storm. Groups of people leave at a time. I, however, stayed around to adress towards LadyFighter. He walks over to her and shakes her hand.

As my forefathers have tooken part of this competition. I would gladly be in the 6th annual boxing tournament. And, oh. So would my pet. Mr. Albert.

Sweeney gives a handshake goodbye and starts to head out of the door. Can't wait he thinks to himself. Can't wait..

Emilio after winning the fight went to go train, realizing there are some hard hitters here and he barely won the fight as it was.  On his way out of the arena he finds Jumong and walks up to him to shake his hand.

Jumong man, good fight, I'll see ya around.  Call me up sometime, perhaps we can train together eh?

And with a grin Emilio gives a nod and quickly walks to the gym, as it seemed to be starting to rain.

Spitting blood on the ground, EB pulls himself to his feet, acknowledging Philli-Stein with a nod of his head and a handshake.

Well fought. Next time, the outcome will be different.

You see Zmei after the match and damn, he is a real mess. Beaten and swollen, by looking at him you would wonder if he actually won that fight. He sees you staring at him and chuckles

I know mate, not a pretty sight. I got lucky there wasn't another round or Ayame_ would've killed me hahah... aaah. Fuck, I think I have a broken rib..."

Zmei gives a quick wave and a mischievously looking asian girl quickly comes to his side. As they depart you stare at the chick's ass thinking that if that's part of the prize you should become a boxer too.

Walking into the ring Chuck hears hisname being shouted in the crowd, getting into the ring Chuck then places a blindfold around his eyes and waits for his opponent. Upon his opponent entering the ring the bell is rung and the match begins. Standing in his corner Chuck patiently waits for Priestlogan to throw the first punch. As the first punch is swung at Chuck's face he gracefully moves slightly to the right Priestlogan's punch barely misses him. Then with lightning quick reflexes Chuck lifts his right arm and delivers a powerful punch to the side of Priestlogan's head. Priestlogan went down hard and didn't get back up. Chuck slowly removes his blindfold and bows as the crowd erupts with cheers and Chuck strolls out head held high as always.

Since it was freezing outside, Ladyfighter arrived very early at the Arena. Only a few fighters were already waiting to get in and start with their warming up and preparations for the fights. Ladyfighter smiles at them and opens the door. "Come in guys, its warmer here". Everyone entered the building and walked towards the gym and their dressing rooms.

Ladyfighter walks to her office and puts on the lights. Her eyes immediately catched the red dress, which was still hanging against the wall. She had forgotten to take the dress with her back to New Orleans. So far, she has still no idea who gave her the dress. Then she hears the doorbell ringing and wonders who is using the doorbell while the door is open and everyone can enter.

A delivery boy is standing outside with a bunch of flowers. "Its for you Lady, can you sign here?" Ladyfighter signs the boys delivery note and gives him a few bucks. She returns to her office and looks at the beautiful tulips. The person that gave her the flowers must have known that Ladyfighter was born in Holland. The country of the tulips. She is looking back in her memory if she ever told someone that she is originally from Holland.

"Beautifull flowers Miss. Secret admirer?" Ladyfighter turns around with her hand already on her gun. The voice came from Jim Howe. "Jim, you frightened me by coming in so silent and talking all of a sudden to me. And I think I have a secret admirer, but I have no idea who that could be."
Jim Howe smiles and answers: "Sorry, I did not mean to frighten you. I just heard you arrived and wanted to see if everything was fine. No hidden packages, but I see you did get a surprise. Well since everything is fine, I will continue with my work and protect your arena". "Thank you Jim, you are the best", Ladyfighter answers and walks to the kitchen to put the tulips in some water.

Then its time to start todays fights. Eight fights tonight. These are the matches:

Djosefin - Animal
MatteoDenaro - Philli-Stein
D_D - Kismu
EmilioSoldati - Chuck_Norris
Don_Dimitri - -iocaste
Vengeance - Valkyrie
Abel - Zmei
Jonny - RickJames

1st fight:
Djosefin - Animal
Unfortunately last nigth Animal was involved in an accident and is not with us anymore. Djosefin is the winner of this fight without boxing.

2nd fight:
MatteoDenaro - Philli-Stein
Last round MatteoDenaro was not impressing us with his skills and Philli-Stein had a great defense. I hope MatteoDenaro had some trainings.

[19:30:03] <~Ladyfighter> 1d20: 4
[19:30:03] <~Ladyfighter> 1d20: 18

MatteoDenaro did train a lot, his skills were much better. But Philli-Stein defensed very good.

3rd fight:
D_D - Kismu
Both fighters show up and especially D_D is asking the crowd to cheer louder. Hopefully it will help him to win the match.

[19:37:52] <~Ladyfighter> 1d20: 6
[19:37:52] <~Ladyfighter> 1d20: 19

As soon as the crowd cheered for D_D to win, you could see Kismu face changed and he focussed on D_D trying to hit him. D_D had no chance. Kismu won with great difference.

4th fight:
EmilioSoldati - Chuck_Norris
Last match Chuck_Norris won the match as Chuck Norris normally does. But this time he faces EmilioSoldati, a very known boxer from New Orleans.

[19:41:57] <~Ladyfighter> 1d20: 3
[19:41:57] <~Ladyfighter> 1d20: 12

Chuck_Norris won the match. EmilioSoldati did what he could, but Chuck_Norris did not give him enough space to show what he really could do.

5th fight:
Don_Dimitri - -iocaste
As a real lion -iocaste entered the ring and started to shout and grumble to Don_Dimitri immediately.

[19:58:17] <~Ladyfighter> 1d20: 13
[19:58:17] <~Ladyfighter> 1d20: 9

The shouting did not help -iocaste much. Don_Dimitri had a few new tricks to win from -iocaste. Nice fighting guys.

6th fight:
Vengeance - Valkyrie
Like Animal, Vengeance had an accident. Valkyrie wins.

7th fight:
Abel - Zmei
Hard to tell who is going to win this figth. Both are very experienced boxers and well trained.

[20:23:00] <~Ladyfighter> 1d20: 16
[20:23:00] <~Ladyfighter> 1d20: 15

As I already thought, a close match. Abel was less tired then Zmei, you could really see Zmei collapsing in the last minutes. Well done Abel !!

8th fight:
Jonny - RickJames
Last match Jonny did win with a bit of luck. But in every sport, you need luck to survive. Lets see what he will do again the famous RickJames.

[20:26:37] <~Ladyfighter> 1d20: 15
[20:26:37] <~Ladyfighter> 1d20: 8

Luck was on Jonny side again. It seemed RickJames was drunk or something like that, he did not fight like he used to do. Jonny, well done.

Tonights matches gave following results:

Djosefin vs Animal - 20-0
MatteoDenaro vs Philli-Stein - 4-18
D_D vs Kismu - 6-19
EmilioSoldati vs Chuck_Norris - 3-12
Don_Dimitri vs -iocaste - 13-9
Vengeance vs Valkyrie 0-20
Abel vs Zmei - 16-15
Jonny vs RickJames - 15-8

Which gives following pairing for quarter finals.

Djosefin vs Philli-Stein
Kismu vs Chuck_Norris
Don_Dimitri vs Valkyrie
Abel vs Jonny

See you all soon again.

Ladyfighter

Emilio, beat down, and badly bruised walks out of the arena, disappointed but none the less happy to see a good fighter win

Chuck, shoulda known you would have won, hah, maybe next time I'll get ya.  Till then good luck, and hope you continue to do good.

Emilio then walks off, with a bit of a limp do to the cold and an old injury from his time street fighting.  He makes his way back to New Orleans to get ready for the next time he can fight.

Philli steps away from the ring, barely winded this time. Matteo hadn't even broguht an offence. Hopefully djosefin would be more of a challenge.

Jonny watched through his cocky eyes as Rick stumbled into the ring. The bell rang and Rick gave Jonny one good slug in the chest. Then Jonny just tapped his shoulder, Rick stumbled, and fell over onto the ring, while vomiting, and snorting up a line of chop.

That was unfair Kismu is twice my size.

I was sure to loose .

Anyway best of luck guys for further fights.

Ayame arrives at the arena to see the matches of today. When she enters she sees the door of Ladyfighter's office open. She looks inside to say hello to Lady, but no one is in.

She enters and decides to wait for Lady. Then she sees the red dress hanging.

Wow!!! What a nice dress.

She feels some jealousy coming up. What is Lady planning to do after the matches, she never wears such nice dresses. There must be a secret in her life.

Then Lady comes in with a vase full of the most beautifull flowers.

Hey Lady, how are you? She says and inmediatly continues:

Is there something you have to tell me?

She sees the red cheecks of Lady and thinks: there must be some secret lovestory.

She sits in the chair waiting the answer of Lady, but she hurries to the arena to start the fights. A bit disappointed Ayame leaves the room and hurries to the arena to see the fights.

Don_Dimitri had been pit against a lion. And won... This was a story to match even the stories of hercules his mother used to tell him as a child.

Well fought iocaste.

DD then walks across to Valkyrie.

I look forward to our fight, two bosses in the nihilists going all out for the semi-finals. It will be epic.

Rick James raises a bloody fist as a sign of respect as he leaves the arena after his elimination. He wipes the blood off his face and spits out blood.

Should've expected as much walking in there without my pre-fight fix...

Jonny decides to leave the locker room and he approaches Abel, who is talking to the bookie.

Hey, Abel. In our next fight, how about we put a nice friendly wager, how does two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) sound? Then that money goes to the winner, and the loser loses that plus the chance to be champion. How's it sound to you?

Jonny holds his envelope with the money up and awaits Abel's decision.

Abel was nervous before the fight, and a little upset. He hated having to face a fellow crew member, he would have felt much happier if there was a way to prevent this. Family members shouldn't have to eliminate each other until the final stages. Besides, he knew Zmei had been training really hard for this tournament so he knew he had his work cut out for him. He entered the fight as focused as he could and fortunately, he came out on top just for one point in the decision. By far, the toughest fight of his career.

After the fight he was exhausted and still trying to recuperate when Jonny approached him with a betting proposition. He was still abit out of it, but he was able to understand the gist of the proposal. $250,000 sounded like a nice wager that he wouldn't mind placing so he agreed to it and handed the 250k to the bookie.

You're on pal, may the best man win.

He shook Jonny's hand and as soon as Jonny and the bookie left, he let himself fall on the chair again, still exhausted.

Valk leaves the arena a little disappointed that she wasn't able to show her prowess, but enjoyed watching this round of fights. She notices another boss in her family approach her

Dimitri...it will be epic indeed! I'll be hanging out at the gym a lot this week, I'm always up for some friendly sparring if you are, because one of us has gonna represent the Nihilists at the semis!

Valk smiles sweetly and slings her unused hot pink gloves over her shoulder

Making his way out of the ring Chuck pats Emelio on the back then walks out of the stadium to train forhis next fight.

i would like to take part in this if it is still going on

mk lights up a smoke and sits back and awaits for more action

I think you're gonna have to wait until the next tournament. Keep your eyes open for the 6th round...