Battle Royal
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- BATTLE ROYAL MADISON RICHOUX ADAPTED FROM WRIGHT THOMPSON'S ESSAY
- Back then, they'd chain a bear in the middle of the bear garden let the dogs loose.
- Iron chain's around a bear's neck don't slow him too much. A bear will always make short work of a dog.
- SLOW
- 20x
- Shakespeare said Sackerson did it more than twenty times to dogs wildcats alike.
- since most creatures are naturally afraid of bears, there wouldn't always be much of a show in the bear garden.
- NO SHOW
- So the handlers sometimes put the bear's eyes out or took his teeth to make the fight more sporting.
- I believe you need eyes more than you need teeth in a fight, but losing either makes a bear a little less mean.
- Once baiting was against the law, some smart somebody figured coloreds fight just as hard if hungry enough.
- BAITING
- So they rounded up the skinniest of us, had us strip to trousers, then blindfolded us before the fight.
- They turned us in hard circles a few times on the ring steps like a motorcar engine before pushing us between the ropes.
- I didn't know where those punches came from, but I swung so hard my shoulder hasn't been right since because the man said only the last darky on his feet get a meal.
- When the bell rang, it seemed like I got hit from eight directions.
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