Hey, King Spike Rules here and here is another chapter to Kengen Ashura: Next Gen. The tournament started in this chapter and it will be interesting for how they fight.

Chapter 9: HAND POWER

Fireworks lit up the skies around the arena as the crowd piled in, trying to get a good seat for the tournament fights and setting up a betting pool on who would win the fight. Taaru and Kenta stood against a wall inside the area, looking down at the crowd filling the seats before them.

"Look at all of them" Kenta said scanning them, seeing many wealthy people sitting as even more wealthy people were in the sky boxes enjoying the view from there.

"Yeah, and I can feel they are all weak with no fighting skill." Taaru said with his arms crossed and staring at them all while Kenta looked down, holding his briefcase tightly in his hand as Taaru commit fit on him too.

"Strength comes in several different ways." Kenta said looking up at Taaru, who directed his gaze toward his employer with confusion, not sure why he would say that out of nowhere. Their attention was drawn with the lights turning off, spot lights appeared iluminating the circle ring, where a young lady in a red dress stood with an ear piece smiling as she looked at the cheering crowd, knowing the fights are about to start. But Taaru and Kenta were shocked, seeing the announcer for the matches was Miyuki and Taaru looked at Kenta, seeing sweat run down his face.

"Good morning every one, I hope your ready to watch an amazing performance brought to you from the worlds best fighters." she announced to them smiling and looking at the crowd as they cheered loudly before continuing, "Miyuki Abe here as your host and I would like to welcome the first fighter into the arena."

The ringer circled around with laser lights while fog filled the area as rock music played loudly with a figure walking through the tunnel. "First, from the Aichi Prefecture and the owner of Ryu Dojo, creator of the Dragon Karate style. Standing at 6'5 and weighting at 287 lp. Representing Hindo Automotive, with a score of 14 wins, 2 loses, 'Dragon Fist.' Eito Yushikao." The spotlights shined onto him as a tall man walked out with a very muscular body, black hair styled in a pony tail, blue eyes, and was dressed in an oversized gi with bare feet. The crowd roared out loud in excitement as he walked while lifting his arms to them, smiling as he looked around before doing a few of his moves to show off.

"Wait until I get my hands on my first opponent." he said with a smug look on his face and looked around as the crowd cheered louder.

"And his opponent: hailing from the United Kingdom and a former Royal Air Force Pilot. Standing at 5'6 and weighting in at 8.5 Stones. In his debut, representing Royal Queen Tea, 'The Gentleman Fighter.' Nigel Gordon." Miyuki announced as fancy music began to play witht the lights showing a man walk out . He was not very big in size or muscle mass, with neatly cut brown hair, a curly mustache, pale skin, wearing a singlet with the British flag painted on it, matching knee pads, and fighting boots. He had his left hand behind his back and waving at the crowd as Eito watched him walk around the area while the referee walked up to both of them.

"Alright, come face to face." he said drawing them both to the center of the ring while Miyuki made her way out of the ring. "Are you both ready to fight?" he asked them and they both nodded, staring each other down as the crowd cheered on.

"Woah, he's so outsized." Kenta said in shock at the size difference in Eito and Nigel while Taaru had his arms crossed, scanning them.

"Don't think he's going to lose because of his size." he said, making Kenta look at him and nod, returning his gaze to the ring.

"Alright, Begin!" the referee said throwing his arm down between them and Eito was ready to charge, but he stopped when he saw Nigel offering him a hand.

"I will fight as a gentleman only after a respectful handshake." he said looking at Eito, who stared back at him confused for a few seconds before smiling and accepting the handshake. Once they stopped, Eito let go of Nigel's hand.

"To show real respect, we should bow too." he said bowing to Nigel, who placed a hand on his chin to think it over.

"Yes, I do believe you are right." Nigel said bowing his head, only to get a knee suddenly slammed into his face, shocking the referee and the crowd as Nigel stumbled with blood running down his nose, which was then followed by a sudden punch to Nigel's face and then by a kick to knock him back.

"Only a real fool falls for good sportsmanship." Smirking, Eito got into his fighting stance and launched a spinning heel kick to knock Nigel down, forcing the Englishman to his knees as he walked up to him smirking. Blood ran from Nigel's face as he forced himself to his feet and looked at the man who hit him with a few cheap shots. Nigel stood tall and got into a fighting stance with his fists in front of him, jumping back and forth while Eito laughed at him. "You look so stupid." he said mockingly as he began to launch a flurry of punches at Nigel, who ducked his head behind his fists and just took the several punches he was hit by.

"This doesn't look good." one of the business man said watching Eito beat on the smaller man and looked nervous while the guy next to him smirked.

"I told you, never bet on a dark horse with a fighter like him." the guy sitting next to him said smoking his cigar when another chined un from behind them.

"Oh, this is not over." he said with a thick British accent and a smile on his face as they looked at him confused before they turned back to watch the fight. Eito was continuing his assault on the english man, pushing the defensive Nigel into the wall, he stared at his cornered opponent while smirking.

"Take this." Eito yelled smirking, throwing a right jab and failing to notice Nigel's hands move down to show a serious look in his eyes.

"Here he comes." the English man in the crowd said smirking when Nigel threw a fast punch toward Eito's right arm, throwing off his balance as the punch zoomed past his hair. Eito was taken back from the sudden attack and was shocked again when Nigel threw more rapid fire punches at him. Nigel struck his chest a few times thanks to Eito being stunned, and when he tried to punch him, Nigel ducked out of the way and moved away from the wall as the guy said, "Now the real fight started."

"The fuck did that come from!" Eito said turning to look at Nigel, who was bouncing on his feet and had his hands up ready to keep attacking the larger man. Seeing him like that angered Eito, who clenches his fists and charged at the less bulky fighter throwing a strong left. Nigel dodged it and struck his chest and arm a few more times before moving away from him.

"Stick and weave." Nigel said looking at the larger man and bouncing on his feet, not taking his mind off of him as Eito was left shocked at how he was acting and he was getting madder by the second.

"You think you could come here and act like you were a martial artist?" he barked out and charged at him, throwing another punch from the right. Nigel ducked under it and was met with a swift kick to his side, which staggered him and made him step back a few feet only to get hit by another round house kick to the side of his head.

This made Nigel fall tot he ground and stay on his knees, while Eito towered over him with his arm pulled back, "Now stay down." He threw his punch down and slammed it into the ground, but missed it's target when Nigel rolled out of the way. Infuriated, Eito threw more punches at Nigel, who blocked or dodged them while hitting his left arm a few times in the process as he moved on a few feet to keep him at a distance.

"I think we're both fighters and should fight at our best." Nigel responded and this time charged at his opponent, dodging many of Eito's punches and continued to strike his left arm and torso while Eito struck him a few times with punches of his own. The two were soon bloodied and bruised all over with both panting heavily, yet Nigel's hands never fell to his waist and seemed to always be ready to go further. The crowd was excited, cheering them on as the three businessmans sat next to each others with the first two still in shock of what was happening.

"Do you two see what i mean?" the Englishman asked them smoking a cigar as they nodded, not taking their eyes off of the fight in front of them.

"B-but what kind of fighting style is this?" one of them asked turning to the Englishman, who turned back to look at him with a smile.

"One of the oldest ever recorded." he answered, and seeing their faces fill with confusion he explained, "Nigel is a Bare Knuckle Boxer and and knows Greco-Roman Wrestling." They were shocked and turned back as Eito threw another punch at him with his right arm and Nigel dodged it a few times before striking his left arm. Eito pulled back and held his arm, seeing it was black from the assault that it had been getting from the whole match.

'Damn it, he's been focusing on my arm this whole match and now it hurts so much.' Eito thought to himself before charging at Nigel again, who for the first time in the fight put his arms down. Eito was taken aback by this and slowed down slightly, panicking over the shock. This was a mistake as Nigel wrapped his arms around Eito's waist and left arm before throwing himself to the ground with a twist. Eito followed suit with the fall and was slammed onto the ground, then a very loud crack was heard through out the area. Eito screamed out in pain as Nigel let him go. The referee saw Eito's bone sticking out of his arm, nearly throwing up as the bigger man yelled out in even more pain.

"Do you wish to continue?" the referee asked with a hand over his mouth while Eito looked at Nigel, bloodied, bruised, and cracking his neck before getting back in his fighting stance. Seeing this made Eito sweat heavily and began to move away from him, shaking his head. The referee lifted Nigel's hand and said, "Your winner. Nigel Gordon.' Nigel smiled turning to the scared Eito, who was being tended to by EMTs.

"That is for the knee." he said loud enough for him to hear before walking out of the ring with his arm up and the crowd cheering loudly from his shocking victory.

TBC


That is it for this chapter and i hope you enjoyed it. Please leave a review to tell me what you think and how you feel the fights are going.