1840 Indian Rebirth

Chapter 187 [To talk about martial arts]

Therefore, if Horse Whistle wants to gain a good reputation with less risk, it must have something different.

In other words, he needs to initiate a reform in the field of fighting.

Now in 1848, boxing, the traditional British martial art, was a notoriously rogue industry, barbaric in form, corrupt in operation and immature in technique.

This status quo is well known to passers-by. Even those who love boxing the most have to admit that there are too many despicable things in this sport.

In other words, the reform of combat sports is actually imminent.

Gideon said: "Every boxer's debut starts with challenging others. I can arrange coaches and opponents for you. As long as you keep winning in challenges, you can become a boxing champion admired by everyone."

Ma Shao asked: "What kind of coach and opponent can you find for me?"

Gideon: "For a natural king, the coach is not important, just to help you get familiar with the rules, I can be your coach. The rules are very important, very important."

Ma Shao smiled: "But I heard that fouls are common in boxing matches."

"Indeed, but rules are still very important." Gideon said, "A qualified boxer must know how to minimize fouls and how to make opponents foul more than himself."

He added: "In many competitions, the winner is often not the one recognized as better at fighting, but the one who is better at using the rules."

Ma Shuo suddenly said: "Why don't we establish a new set of rules?"

Gideon froze. "New rules?"

Horse whistle: "Everyone knows that the rules of boxing are full of loopholes, whether it is in the ring or off the ring. In this case, why don't we establish a more standardized and decent model to replace traditional boxing."

Gideon: "It's true that there are MPs who are arguing that people who love boxing want it to be a decent sport...but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with us."

Ma Shao said: "Compared to becoming the king under the existing rules, establishing new rules to replace them is the real honor."

"Gideon, if you think back to the history you know, you will find that the most outstanding heroes are always the creators of certain rules."

John Gideon is a fairly pure businessman, but this sentence still aroused some reverie in him, and he thought about it.

After a while.

"What kind of rules are you going to establish?" he asked.

"It's the rules of Apache martial arts." Ma Whistle said.

Gideon didn't seem to understand: "What?"

"I am a Native American, that is, the American Indians in your white population." Horse Whistle said slowly, "Apache is the name of my tribe. Apache fighting, this fighting sport is more important than boxing To adapt to actual combat, it also pays more attention to martial arts."

"Wu De?" The word may have been originally invented by Ma Shao, so Gideon naturally couldn't understand it.

"About the morality of martial arts." Ma Shao explained, "such as not bullying the weak, not cheating, respecting opponents, respecting life..."

"The martial arts of our Apache people is to pay attention to martial arts, and we should pay attention to the point when we learn from each other. Unnecessary bloodshed is not worth encouraging."

Gideon: "Okay, that sounds good, but how are you going to build it, or get people to accept it?"

Ma Shao: "Without actual combat, it's all about flamboyance. No matter what martial arts, challenges are always necessary... So, just like a boxer's debut, the debut of this set of rules should also be presented in the form of challenges."

"Gideon, since you are a professional manager, then I hire you to help me contact some famous boxers, and let them challenge me—according to the competition rules of Apache martial arts."

Gideon hesitated: "Of course, I'd love to do it. But I'm afraid boxers may not be willing to participate in a fight using unfamiliar rules, unless you are willing to pay them."

"That's right." Horse Whistle nodded, "So in the next challenge, whoever defeats me will get a prize of [-] pounds."

Sure enough, a great nobleman, perhaps a wealthy chieftain, Gideon couldn't help thinking.

Five hundred pounds is a staggering figure, and for the vast majority of workers, it will take at least ten years to save without food or drink.

So much so that Gideon wanted to challenge the horse whistle: "Five hundred pounds, this is enough to make all the boxers in London want to try their hands and feet, no, it should be all men!"

Horse sentry added: "I don't want so many challengers, so failure is not free. Those who fail the challenge need to pay a pound-of course not pay me, I don't need it, the money will be used as a charity." donated to Irish victims of the Great Famine."

Gideon was taken aback, but then he reacted, and couldn't help laughing and said, "Good idea, now no one will say that we are carrying out barbaric activities!"

Horse Whistle smiled and said, "That's right, we're going to conduct a charity fundraising event."

Although boxing is very popular in the UK, traffickers and princes and nobles are quite enthusiastic, but in name, boxing and all kinds of fighting games are still illegal sports, and may be stopped by the police.

Having a charitable name can undoubtedly greatly reduce this risk, and it will be nice to say it.

Horse Whistle gave Gideon a sum of money as a reward and funds, asking him to help organize, contact boxers in London, and participate in this nominal charity fundraising event.

The prize of [-] pounds is still very attractive. In contrast, you only need to pay [-] pound for the failure of the challenge, and it is still in the name of charitable donations. It is not too shameful. A thick-skinned person can declare "I just want to donate." .

So in the next few days, accepting the challenge of the London boxer became Ma Shuo's daily life, and several boxers would compete with him every day.

In fact, the number of applicants was far more than this, but it was impossible for the horses to accept all of them, at least they had to be some well-known boxers.

The result of the sparring was no surprise.

Relying on the physical fitness far beyond ordinary people and the fighting system ahead of the times, Ma Shuo defeated all the boxers who challenged him, and most of the fights were easy, at least not injured, and he tried not to hurt his opponents as much as possible, indeed So far.

London is the center of boxing in the world. Horse Whistle set up a ring here, and defeated a bunch of well-known boxers with ease in succession. The media reports naturally fermented rapidly, and the news quickly spread throughout Britain.

As it turns out, this stuff gets a lot more attention than physics.

As a result, when Joule came to London from Manchester, the first thing he said when he saw the horse post was half-jokingly: "I heard on the train that a God of War from Apache appeared in London—that person should Could it be you?"

(End of this chapter)