Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece and I never said I did.

It had been a week since the football game with the Navy. The Straw hats were in their cabin talking excitedly about the game. "Remember the play when we threw Luffy the ball?"

"Yeah." Everybody said.

"Or the time Zoro ran right threw those guys and got a touchdown?"

"Yeah."

"What sport do you think we're going to do now?" asked Sanji.

"Why don't we look at the board?" suggested Usopp. So everyone headed over to the bulletin board. There was a huge sign that said "Boys Sports". Everyone looked under it. It said that this week they got there choice of sport, boxing or tennis. It was also written on the board that Luffy wasn't allowed to box because he is made of rubber.

Usopp naturally signed up for tennis right away and Luffy was forced to do tennis. Sanji did tennis too because he doesn't fight with his hands. Only Zoro and Chopper signed up for boxing.

When they got to the boxing room, they saw the coach already waiting there. "What's this!?" he yelled. "Where is everybody?"

"We are everybody." answered Chopper. The coach stared at the little reindeer.

"Um, why did you join boxing?" he asked Chopper.

Chopper smiled and said, "I wanted to show everyone how tough I am!"

"But you're kinda small. I don't think there will be anyone in your weight class."

"Trust me, he can be big when he wants to." said Zoro. The coach gave him a confused look.

"Well, let's start practice." The coach pointed to two punching bags. "Punch those 100 times and come see me." The coach watched to see how strong they were. Zoro could make the bag swing. When Chopper transformed and hit the bag, it went flying. After about an hour of hitting the bag, the two went over to the coach. "Okay, now let's practice stance." The coach got into one. "Keep your knees bent. When you're not punching, don't make a fist. Just keep your hands open until you punch." Chopper and Zoro got into the stance.

"Good. Now do a side-step in a circular motion and change directions when I blow the whistle."

By the end of practice the two had gotten the basics down. Chopper sitting on the floor, exhausted. Zoro was standing up, breathing almost normally. "Good practice today." The coach said. "For the first week we're going to work only on building up your strength. The next week we're going to work on your technique."

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After a week of working out, Chopper had gotten a little bit stronger when he's his normal self. Zoro was about the same. "Okay, now we're going to work on technique. Get into your stance." The two got into the stance. The coach tied a piece of string connecting each foot. "Now practice moving your stance a bit." The two moved side to side and up and down. "Good, now you're going to work on dodging while in your stance."

"Are we going to have to box each other?" Chopper asked, glancing at Zoro.

"No. I'll be back." And with that the coach left the room. When he came back, he had a ball shaped bag. "You are going to learn dodging while in your stance." He then pulled a beehive. He tossed it and ran.

"OH NO!!!" yelled Chopper. He started to run, but fell because of the string.

"So the string keeps us in are stance." said Zoro. He got in his stance and got ready to dodge.

After a week of this torture, they were at the tournament. There were only five other people besides Zoro and Chopper. This is how the pairings went.

Zoro-Siam Chopper-Butchie

Kuro-By Don Krieg-Pearl.