He let the memory of the first knockdown hit him. He let the pain, the doubt, the tuition bills, the fear—all of it—flow into his right hand. The hand wasn't a wrecking ball. It was a pen.
Now, the night before the decider, Cross stared at the pre-fight analysis. But the game had glitched. The screen fractured into a kaleidoscope of slow-motion sweat, blood, and the ghostly, translucent faces of fighters long dead—LaMotta, Hagler, a young Tyson. They weren't watching him . They were watching the bio . fight night round 3 bios
The second fight, Cross changed. He stopped boxing. He started hunting . He didn't just throw the corkscrew uppercut; he made it a sermon. Every time Bishop tried to retreat, Cross was there, the punch rising from the floorboards of the old Garden, catching Bishop on the point of the chin. A tenth-round knockout. The bio updated: Susceptibility confirmed. He let the memory of the first knockdown hit him
Cross slammed the laptop shut. But the bio was already inside him. It was a pen