Tyra Flemings: A Short Story

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Dec 16, 2014 , Normal day in Fairmont West Virginia. In an ordinary home in a rule part of West Virginia lives a man named PJ Flemings and his wife Tyra Flemings. A newly couple so intriguing and electrified in their new and seem to be everlasting love for each other. Pj had also had his love with boxing, a sport he wished he could compete in and have desires to be the best pound for pound heavyweight in the world, but due to them living in a rule part of the state there wasn't really a chance that it could happen but he did keep a man in his wallet to help him keep that little bit of hope that maybe it could happen. Tyra was so fascinated about what his dreams was and how he felt about them. One day Tyra decides to ask about the man in his wallet, she always saw it and never seemed to ask about it because in some way she figured why it was there, she knew the admiration pj had …show more content…
He was a man that everyone wanted to fight but never could succeed in beating him. He was 78 - 0 and was the most humblest person to be at that level of high people try to put him on. Paul was a great guy who just wanted to take his career to the next level. One day after walking to the gym for a fight later on he heard talk of some big time fighting agent coming to see him fight and if he was impressed he would take paul to bigger and better things. That said during the fight later on he comes out there with a kill attitude, a attitude that u could tell how they felt just by the way there face look. They both enter the ring and 1sec after that bell rang his opponent was knocked out. He impressed the big shot alot, even more so because the person he fought was handpicked by the agent and expected Paul to take his first lost. The agent took Paul under his wing and taught him proper ways to fight, clean and more aggressively

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