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was to be Ron's
night - the fight
to get him nicely
warmed up to
progress all the
way to the final
and regain the
title. John Motson,
however, had other
ideas. Ron came
out swinging,
accompanying each
blow with baffling
Ronglish epithets.
It was all Motty
could do to stay
standing, although
he did manage to
get in a few blows
with his titanium
alloy samurai
sword.
If
Commentator Wars
fights were
decided on points
decisions, it
would have been
tough to call this
one. As one round
followed another,
Motty gradually
came into it,
while Big Ron's
Ronglish chatter
ceased almost
entirely. Even the
crowd above the
Pit, normally
bloodthirsty, fell
quiet as these two
giants of the
arena settled into
a war of
attrition.
It
was Motson who
delivered the
fatal strike in
the 19th round,
with one fell
swoop of his sword
severing
Atkinson's vocal
cords, rendering
further Ronglish
broadsides
impossible. Big
Ron's bid quickly
fell away to
nothing. Motty
pinned him to the
bloodstained floor
in the 20th, and
that was it.
History was made.
Big Ron had gone
out in Phase One.
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