three hits on dodgeball mountain

and a runt that falls faster than butterfly farts

Kirk lost his first heavyweight title fight to Ruiz on low blows.

Upon appeal, the World Boxing Association ruled that Kirk was improperly disqualified.

That still didn’t make him the champ.

I was in Jr high with Kirk. He likely didn’t remember me.

Back then, I was a runt of not even five feet - the kind of ninety eight pound weakling that gets sand kicked in his face - that is if the sand kickers would bother to acknowledge me. At fifteen years old, Kirk Johnson was a mountain of a man standing six foot three and weighed at least two c-notes.

I never knew Kirk as a boxer, nor as someone who used low blows.

I knew Kirk on the dodgeball court and even there Kirk delighted in headshots.

On one particular occasion I was alone on the court with Kirk. Moments prior to this I managed to knocked out Lumpy Burns with a shot that took his feet out from under him. I dodge everything for the entire game.

But now?

It was just me and Kirk.

Kirk was never cruel when he hurt you with a dodgeball. He just…