I found this story from a long time ago and I decided to edit it and post it for the hell of it. I wrote this story when I was a freshman in High School, so I was surprised I found this story.

I decided to make this Fanfiction after watching "The Art of Boxing". After watching the episode, I began to think what would happen if Max continued on Boxing and decide to take his boxing skills to bigger heights and does some Mix Martial Art. I made this story where Max goes to the gym to practice his craft in order to relief stress from School. Right now he's 18yrs old and due to his dyslexia, he got held back once and he's currently a Senior. Max's appearance is the still the same with his short shaggy hair except his muscles have gotten bigger because of training for years and he took off his braces. Max did wrestling for the school his Junior year until he quit to focus on his studies.

Chapter 1

Max is walking with his duffle bag from School to the UFC Gym. Max had fail a test in History and decided to get some anger out and since he was gonna be at the Gym, he figured he train to get ready for his upcoming ranked #1 match this Saturday. Max got to the Gym and went to the changing room to get into his ring gear. Max came out with a Black sleeveless underarmor shirt, Black boxing gloves, White Shorts with blue outlines and black ankle wraps and went to a punching bag and started to punch it. 30mins later, Max was lifting some weight and then his friend, Christopher came by.

"Hey Max. How did your test go?"

"Not so good, I failed my test. My Dad is gonna kill me when he finds out I failed my test again." replied Max.

"Well looks like you need something to hit, so let's go to the ring and get some of your frustration out. What do you say?" said Christopher.

Max nodded and followed Christopher to an empty ring. Once they got there, Max and Christopher took off their shirts and put on their sparring helmets and got into their stance. Both trade blow for blow and Max was starting to lose and got hit in the face, which knocked him down but he managed to regain himself before he hit the ground. Max managed to jump back up and swing with a powerful right hook and it connected to Christopher's face and he fell down.

"Nice one. You managed to hit me pretty good." said Christopher as he was getting up.

Max took off his helmet and helped his friend get back up to his feet. Afterwards, Max heard his phone go off because he set an alarm so when it goes off, it would be a sign for him to go home.

"Well I need to go. See you soon." and with that, Max grabbed his stuff and left to his house.

Max got to his house and he entered the living room. Once he entered the living room, his Dad stood up from the couch with an angry look on his face.

"Hey Dad." said Max.

"Come and sit down son." Max sat down with his father looking down at him.

"So how do you think you did on your test?" said George.

"I think I did good."

"Really?! Well I got a call from your teacher and he told me that you failed your test and you are more than likely to fail his class."

Max looked down with disappointment.

"Look Max, I know High School is tough and you have been struggling for a while now."

"Yeah I know, but I got my #1 contenders match coming up soon and I've been occupied lately knowing that I can go for the belt soon."

"I know Max that you are doing this because it helps reduce your stress and you want to compete for professional league soon, but you need to focus on school as well. You are only at the gym for 2hrs or so and you go right after school, so you have plenty of time to come home and study."

"I know, but knowing that I would be able to fight for the title soon and it's starting to stress me out because I need to practice more and if I don't, I might lose and then I would go back down to the bottom."

"I know you can do it, but you need to make time to study for your classes. You got held back once because you were focusing on wrestling more and when you quit, you were still behind and failed. You are on the verge of failing again and I don't want that to happen to you again."

"I know and I promise I will make time for school after practice. Starting tomorrow because I'm tired and I need my rest for school in the morning."

"Ok take a shower first."

Max went upstairs, took a shower, and went to bed after a long day of school and training. Max woke up to get ready for school and headed out on his skateboard. Max got to school a little late, but he arrived before the teacher did and went straight to his seat in the second row from the back. As Max was getting his notebook out, Christopher entered the room and went to sit next to Max.

"Hey Max."

"Hey Chris."

"Have you heard that Frankie Edgar is coming to town this Saturday. The day of our matches."

"Really that would be good to show Edgar what we got." said Max.

Both Christopher and Max were talking about how this could be good for them if they won their matches until their teacher came in and began class. All day, Max has his mind on the fact that Frankie Edgar is coming to L.A and is gonna be at the UFC Gym to watch the fights. What made Max happier was that he was around the same weight as Edgar at 147 pounds and if he did good, he could ask Edgar to train him and maybe one day, face him for the title, but a guy could dream. Max decide to make his dream come true but for that he needs to train longer at the gym.

School ended and Max stayed after school for a while to wait for Christopher and since he's taking forever, so Max just got his stuff and headed to the gym. Max got to the gym, texted Christopher saying he was at the Gym because he was taking forever, and went to put on the same ring gear he had on yesterday and went to the punching bag and had to wait to spar with someone random to prepare himself for his #1 ranked match. Max got to the ring and put on the helmet to face a guy he faced before named Michael Stevens. Both guys were fighting really good up to the fifth round and Max is having a hard time getting around this guy, but this never stopped Max from quitting now.

Max went for a right hook, but Michael countered into a crossarm breaker. Max tried hard to get out of it, but one, he is worn out and second, the C.A.B is on tight and Max had no choice but to tap out. Michael left the ring and Max just sat on the ground thinking.

'I need to get stronger. I'll tell Dad that I stayed after school to redo my test and that way I can get more training in.'

Max went back into the changing room and texted his father that he has stayed after school and will now be heading to the Gym. Max went back to the training room and started lifting weights until it got around 6pm. Max went back home all sore and when he entered his house, he finds out that no one is home and started to look around to make sure. Max got upstairs and on his door, there was a note saying that his parents went out to dinner. Max put his stuff in his room and went to take a shower.

He changed into his sleep wear, which is consist of a White T-Shirt, Grey sweats and Black socks and he decided to go downstairs to prepare himself for some food. Max just made a sandwich and headed to the living room to watch some T.V knowing that he can't do much during the night. After finishing his sandwich, Max got a text from Christopher saying that Max should come back to the gym because they are gonna be open until 10pm for tonight and the gym will be closed Friday night to do some refurbishing to the gym like replacing any equipment that needs to be replaced and change the mat of the ring.

Max thought of it and he liked the idea, mostly to get stronger so he can win his #1 ranked match this Saturday and will show what he gots against the L.A.H Champion Steve "Crash" Tyler. Max texted Christopher that he will be at the gym soon, he just needs to get his stuff. Max turned off everything and ran upstairs to his room, but he realized that his parents won't allow him to stay at the gym until 10pm. Max thought and decided to lie to his parents that he will be spending the night at Christopher's house to study for another test in the morning, but really he would go straight to the gym and then go to sleep at his house afterwards.

Max packed some clothes for tomorrow, got his boxing gear, he texted his parents and headed out to the gym. Both Max and Christopher practice until it was closing time at the gym and both headed back to Christopher's house and afterwards went straight to bed.

Both teens got up, took a shower, and left for school and the worse thing about today is that they didn't study for their test that will happen during 7th period. The whole day, Max would stay focused on his classes and then he would head to the library during lunch to study. Max got to the library to study and he would have to study fast, but Max had a hard time remembering the materials and just decided to wing it and go outside to skateboard until lunch was over. Max got to his 7th period class and he was just sitting there all stumped and he tried to remember what he studied, but nothing. Max managed to finish his test and left because he was the last person to turn in the quiz and it took him the rest of the class period and a little bit of after school time to finish it.

Max knew he did something bad and he would be grounded for failing another test, but he didn't focus on that and just decided to head to the skate park since the gym is closed due to some refurbishing to the gym. Max stayed at the skate park for an hour and then headed home to relax until his match tomorrow.