The Heartless Foe
By Crossmanx at  crossmanx@hotmail.co.uk comments and ideas welcome.
A prize fighter is in for a surprise when he takes on a new challenge


A follow on story from - Closing the Deal, The Heartless Rider, A Heartless
Confinement and The Heartless Strom.

The Heartless Foe

"And your winner and NEW area middle weight champion is ... ... Eddie
Simpson!" The crowd cheered as Eddies hand was raised by the referee. It had
been an easy victory for the boxer who had knocked down his opponent in the
first and second rounds and put him back on the canvas in the third when the
ref had called a halt to the fight. The 26 year old fighter was on his way to
the big times, just one more good fight and he would have the eye of the major
promoters and a shot at one of the big guns!

Eddie was lead away to the dressing room as normal a large crowd had gathered
around the victor, people all wanting a piece of Eddie Simpson. He managed to
get away and headed off to his room when out of no where a man appeared. James
stepped forward and spoke to Eddie "Hello ... My M ... ... My boss would like
you to have this" he held out an envelope, Eddie took it and the man just
turned and walked away 'Strange!' People where always trying to get him to
take a new challenge or do something. But they would always keep on and on at
him until he gave an answer, which was half the fun. Keeping people guessing
and watching them even beg him at times. But this man just handed over an
envelope and walked away ... Strange! He looked down at the envelope, all it
said was Mr E Simpson, in some fancy handwriting, could be a woman's
handwriting.

He walked into his room, there was something about the envelope and the manner
in which it had been delivered, he opened it. Inside was a large card, it
looked like and invitation, he read it:-

'Mr Eddie Simpson is invited to attend a competition fight where he will lose
to a surprise opponent. If he dare to turn up the fight is will be held at the
The Excelsior Hotel at 20:00hrs on the 27th'

RSVP -

'Where he will lose ... If he dare!' If there was one thing that was
guaranteed to wind up Eddie it was being told he would lose, he had never lost
a fight and wasn't going to. The 27th next Friday and there was a telephone
number on the reverse side of the invitation. How dare someone try and get a
fight with his in such a way!

For the rest of the day and the next morning that invitation played on him,
the earlier victory had been put out of his mind, Eddie was always looking
forward not back. He called the Excelsior Hotel, the finest in the city, he
was told that indeed the events hall had been booked for the 27th, for a
boxing match the man said, no, he couldn't tell him who had made the booking
but it was all paid for and yes it would have been very expensive. Who the
hell was doing this, Eddie spent the rest of the moring phoning around, but
nothing no-one had heard of any fighters in or out of the city wanting or
orginising a fight with him, 'Who the Hell could it be!'

This was really getting to him, eventually Eddie called the number on the back
of the invitation, a man answered it sounds as if it could have been the man
who had given him the envelope in the first place. He asked question after
question but all the man would say was "will you be there on the 27th? ... ...
Are you accepting the challenge?" He slammed the phone down! It rang! "Eddie
what's this about a fight at the Excelsior?" Max his manager "everyone's
talking about it, what ... " He put the phone down and headed off to the gym
for a good workout, that's what he needed.

But even at the gym all he got was "so your fighting again" "who you fighting
this time" "I hear it's a sell out for your fight at the Excelsior." It was
indeed a sell out, when he went round to the hotel he spoke directly to the
manager, Raymond, he has personelly taken the booking and was overseeing every
thing. But still no idea about who was behind it.

Over the next few days more rumours reached him notably that there were going
to be some big time promoters at the fight, was this his chance to impress?
Max was more cautious "we don't know anything about your opponent." There
where more rumours, the opponent was a major fighter who wanted to change, the
opponent was young, the opponent was a old, the opponent was a retired fighter
who wanted to make a come back, the opponent was a ... ... ...

"Yes I'll be there" Eddie put the phone down, he couldn't take the chance that
some of the rumours where right, this could be his big break. James turned to
his Boss! "He's agreed to it"

The 27th and Eddie arrives at the Excelsior Hotel, hes meet by Raymond and
shown to his dressing room, still no news on his oppenetn. Before he leaves
Raymond hands him another envolpe, inside a card:-

'R.I.P Mr Eddie Simpson - See you in the ring. H'

'Who the hell is H?' As he gets ready Max comes into the dressing room, he
hasn't managed to find out anything, but the audience has started to arrive
"have you seen any big promoters out there?" Eddie is desperate to know
"haven't seen any yet but its still early." The time drags by, untill Raymond
appears "15 minutes before the start Sir, you'll enter first followed by M ...
followed by your oppenten if that's agreeable?" He knows something but wont
talk. The time arrives and Eddie enters the large ballroom that had been
turned into an arena for the fight, the ring in the centre and all round a
large audience was assembled, they cheered as he enters the arena.

He got into the ring acompadied by Max, and his two trainners, the crowd
cheer, the constant flashing of camaras make it difficult to see the audence,
but those he can see he dosen't recognise. The music starts the door in the
far corner opens, the crowed go mad as his oppenent and trainers walk in and
made their way to the ring. Eddie can't see clearly, as the audience are in
the way. Finally they get to the ring, but he still can't see who it is, all
that's stood in the opposite's corner is a figuer covered in a red full length
dressing gown, hood up, head down, nothing showing.

"Max who the hell is this? ... ... Max ... Max!" His manager wasn't there! The
M.C., Raymond, quientens the audience "Ladies and Gentlemen in the blue
corner, fighting in black trunks, Eddie 'the Spectacular' Simpson the crowd
cheer as he takes his walk around the ring to acknowlege their support. He
looks across at his oppentent still with their head down, strange he just
noticed that the fighters trainer are both women, a blond and brunnette ...
What the hell! "And in the red coner, fighting in a particular stunning red
number, it's the woman you've all come to see" 'Woman!' "She's the the one
that puts fear into her oppentents ... ... she's the Heartless Foe!"

The crown go mental as the red dressing gown falls to the floor to revealve
his oppenent ... A woman!

Eddie's surprised, he's shocked it's a woman, there in the ring his opponent
is a woman! She walks around the ring taking in the applause of the audience;
they cheer and scream "Heartless! Heartless! Heartless!" He still can't
believe what's going on he's been tricked, he can't fight a woman ... ... What
the hell is going on! But as the questions rush around his head he watches the
woman.

She's wearing a pair of red boxing boots, tight full length sports trousers
and a tight cropped top, both like her boots where a deep red colour. The
woman had a great body; her tight outfit shows it off fully. Her large breast
where almost bursting out of her top. As she acknowledges the crowd Eddie
tried to get a good look at her face, then she turns to face him, 'Christ she
was old!' Well not old ... old! But quiet old, this really wasn't sinking in
with the young boxer, he couldn't make any sense of it, was he meant to be
really fighting this older woman?

He gets a good look at her now, she had come over and stood in front of him,
for a older woman she looked ... she looked good ... very good! He could see
that she was well tone and in great shape, she must have been 40 ... ...
Something! Attractive, very attractive, short far hair, thin lips with pink
lipstick on! The odd line around her face that gave the impression that she
might be a bit older than she looked, but it was the eyes they looked straight
into him, a strange feeling slowly crept through his body, he wanted to tell
her 'stop looking at me' but didn't, and then there was that faint smile on
her face. She started to have a 'certain' affect on him, not only making him
feel 'ill at easy' but also ... ... she really is very attractive, sexy and by
that glint in her eyes, she knows it!

She didn't say a thing just looked at him; he'd been given the pre-fight look
before, never had it affect him, until now, he had never fought a woman before
and never had an opponent made him feel so ... ... worried! She turned and
walked back to her corner "where's Max? What the hells going on?" Eddie's
trainer where just as confused, "fighters" the ref called the two to the
centre of the ring, through habit Eddie went over "now look I don't know
what's going on but I don't fight women and ... ... " "Shut up!" The woman
spoke "your manager organised this I have the contract and if you don't fight
I automatically take your title" 'WHAT! What the hell had Max gotten him
into?' "Right when the bell goes come out fighting and I want a clean fight
... ... Well as clean as possible" the ref looks at the woman "please Ms
Heartless" 'What the hell did the ref mean by that?' Eddie heads back to his
corner "It's Max he got me into this!" His trainers are just as shocked as
Eddie. "Ok Ed just go out there move about a bit and hopefully she'll just go
down and stay down". Eddie looks at Phil his trainer "Thanks that brilliant
advice" what else could he have said?

DING! DING! "Round One" reluctantly Eddie got up, he knew Max could be a
'prat' at times but this was going too far, even for him and putting his belt
on the line! Wait till he gets his hands on his manager! The woman in the red
corner, the older woman, dressed all in red comes out; Eddie forces himself
out of his corner. The pair meet in the middle and do the normal circling
around whilst they try and 'suss' out their opponent, but this time Eddie
can't get over the fact that his 'opponent' is a sexy woman! 'Now get thoughts
like that out of your head ... ... But she does have a great body and is very
attractive ... for an older woman' WACK! The 'Heartless' woman lands the first
blow, the crowd go wild. But it's just a body blow, she caught him on his
upper torso; mind you this woman does have a bit of power behind her punch.

He carries on circling her throwing the odd glove her way but she easily moves
out of the way, he doesn't really want to hit her but can't think of what else
to do. Then he's seen a chance to end this quickly and get out of here, THUD!
He hits the woman, right on the jaw, but she didn't go down, she just
staggered back a bit stunned by his blow, the crowd BOO! and shout abuse. She
shakes her head and smiles, in a flash she steps forward and delivers a
session of blows at her opponent WACK! SMACK! THUD! It's now Eddie's turn to
be stunned and shocked, the woman's blows are hard and accurate; he knocked
back against the ropes.

The crowd is behind the woman in red SMASH! WALLOP! THUMP! She again hits out
concentrating on his lower body and ribs, Eddie makes his second mistake, the
first was getting in the ring, he lowers his guard to protect his body. The
Heartless woman's plan has worked she sees the opening she after CRACK! A
powerful uppercut to Eddie's chin, driving the man's head backwards, the crowd
stand and cheer as Eddie's sent spinning, 'Christ she can hit!' He's total
underestimated this woman.

She doesn't let him off THUD! THUD! THUD! More body blows follow and another
hard hit to his jaw got through WACK! Cameras flash, the crowd scream and
Eddie's against the ropes with a woman, an older woman, dishing out hard blows
to his body and face.

DING! DING! "End of round One" the ref jumps in and sends the fighters back to
their corners, Eddie's relived, he sits as his trainers go through their
routine, he doesn't listen to them, just stares at the woman in the red
corner. She doesn't sit down she takes a drink and get a kiss on the check
from each of her 'trainers'. Who is this woman ... ... This Ms Heartless ...
... Who the hell is she. All Eddie does know is she can box; he needs to end
this fast before it ... Before it all goes wrong!

DING! DING! "Round Two" he gets up and walks out, Ms Heartless rushes over,
she has put him on the ropes, she enjoyed it and now she wants some more fun!
She hits out, Eddie's reactions are still there he ducks back and follows up
with a punch to the woman's side, WACK! AARRRHHH! He caught her just right, he
goes for the blow to her jaw, he knows he has to, but the split second in
making that decision was all the mature fighter needed. She ducks; he misses
and opens himself up to a hard right hand hook CRACK! OOOOHHHH! Eddie felt
that one right in the ribs, the power behind it was shocking, from a woman, he
taken back by the blow, not only by hard it felt but also that is was this
older woman in the ring with him that delivered it.

He hasn't got the time to recover before two more hard blows are dished out by
the mature beauty; she hits him hard and fast WACK! THUD! He finds himself
back on the ropes and the crowd cheering on the woman in red SMACK! WACK!
BANG! She's on fire as she again rains in a series of hard blows. Eddie must
do something, his only choice bounce off the ropes into his opponent and push
her away, it works. "Come on Eddie fight me like a man!" She taunts him before
fainting a right; Eddie reacts but as he does knows she tricked him CRACK! Her
hard left connects with his jaw, what a blow; Eddie hasn't felt anything like
that in a long, long time. The crowd go wild as he drops to one knee.

His trainers gasp with shock and the crowd erupt with joy, Eddie's been put
down for the first time, the ref jumps in, Ms Heartless returns to her corner
to the delight of her trainers. Eddie's back on his feet and given a standard
count, he's trying not to show it but he's shaken, embraced and hurting ...
... 'What the hell is going on, this is a woman!'

The ref restarts the fight the woman comes out, Eddie tries and keeps his
distance but she almost jumps onto him, grabbing his head with her gloves she
pulls his head down and drives her knee hard into his stomach WACK! WACK!
WACK! As if some 'Thai Kickboxer', the crowd go crazy as she smashes her
gloves into the side of his head and ears, he's still bent double in pain and
confused, this isn't boxing! His trainers are going mad at the ref who does
nothing. She then places her gloves together and SMACK! She powers them up
into his face, the force of her double handed blow knocks his head clean
backwards, as it snaps forward it's met by her hardest punch so far WACK! This
time his whole body is sent flying backwards, he falls against the ropes and
nearly falls through them.

DING! DING! "End of Round Two" Eddie's trainers rush into the ring to attend
to him, they take him back to his corner; blood runs from his battered face
and nose. Phil storms up to the ref shouting "stop this shambles it's not
boxing." In the 'Heartless' corner Nicky the young busty blond is having none
of this she heads over to the ref. "Excuse me" "WHAT!" Phil screams, he's not
happy SMACK! Nicky won't be talked to like that she slaps the older man hard,
he's stunned WACK! THUMP! SMASH! The blond shows who's in charge, Phil is
knocked back against the ropes and CRACK! A hard blow from the attractive
blond and Phil falls through the ropes to the floor; the crowd enjoyed that
and cheer her.

Will the other trainer rushes over but he's too late "you wasn't going to
interfere ... ... where you" he looks round it's the other 'Heartless trainer'
a younger and equally busty brunette. She doesn't let him answer SMACK! A hard
blow and the little man is send flying backwards, he falls to the canvas, much
to the delight of the crowd. Before he knows it the young brunette grabs him,
pulls him up and throws him straight over the ropes. It's an amazing display
of the young girl's strength, one that is not lost on Eddie who has just
witnessed his trainers being manhandled by the female trainers of the woman
that's hurt him more than any other fighter.

"Time to make his fight more interesting" Ms Heartless words ring in his ear
from the other corner, Eddie watches as she throws her boxing gloves onto the
canvas and punches her fist. The blond and brunette almost jump on top of
Eddie SMACK! One of them slaps him hard as he tries to stand, he's forced back
onto his stall, they are strong, far stronger than he expected. They each grab
an arm and rip the gloves off him. He's now like his opponent; no gloves just
bandaged hands ... ...

DING! DING! "Round Three" Eddie's unsure even ... ... scared, for once in his
life he actually feels scared! It's a totally new experience for the boxer; he
just sits there, but not for long the blond and brunette both grab an arm and
catapult the man into the ring, where he's met by the brutal woman SMASH! A
hard fist to the face, Eddie didn't see it coming his nose is splattered
across his face, but that the least of his problems, she follows it up with
more hard hitting punches to his face and body. Arms up he tries to protect
himself but too many blows found their mark, the man is hurting him, his on
the ropes, literally and in trouble.

SMACK! ARRRRHHHH! Yet another hard blow, this time in connects with his eye,
which immediately starts to swell, he can't see out of it, but even if he
could he wouldn't have seen the next session of blows that land on him. Then
nothing, no punches, no blows, he tenderly looks up from his ineffective
shielding arms, she's there but WACK! She delivers a high kick that lands hard
on his upper body 'Christ she's now kicking!' WACK! WACK! She delivers more
high kicks that take Eddie completely by surprise, this was no longer a mixed
boxing match it was a mixed fight CRACK! OOOWWWHHHH! Her next kick connects
with the side of his head, the male boxer is sent spinning alone the ropes
into the corner.

Eddie tries to think straight but the mature woman doesn't give him any rest
bite she on him pounding his already battered body. She pounds him again and
again; the woman's hot and sweaty body is in stark contrast to his drained and
hurting body. Eddie manages to see her fist head his way, he moves, she
misses, the first sign of a mistake from her, he can't help but be please what
he didn't see was her elbow that crashed into the side of his face SMASH! It's
delivered with such force; his gum shield flies out followed by blood and what
looks like a tooth.

Eddie's world is floating around him, he doesn't know where he is after that
blow, he falls onto the middle rope, it's the only thing keeping him up, the
crowd are on their feet but to Eddie it's all just a blur. He didn't see the
dominant woman stand over him, and certainly didn't see her fist come down on
his jaw CRACK! A loud cheer and Eddie is on the canvas.

DING! DING! "End of round Three" Eddie's saved by the bells! The crowd are
still on their feet they know Eddie's fate will soon be sealed and so does he.
He doesn't have the energy to get up, so the sexy blond and brunette grab the
downed man and drag him over to his corner, they shove him towards his
trainers, they dare not go anywhere near the female trainers. As they treat
his injuries "Before the next and final round" 'Final Round!' Eddie heard that
part "I would like to thank our promoter Mr Jonathan Mason, Eddie has never
hear of him. A young man stands, he's surrounded by a bevy of beautiful woman,
he takes in the audience's applause. Eddie's heart sinks; he doesn't want to
go back out there "she's an animal!" His trainers don't answer him, what can
they say?

DING! DING! "Round Four" Eddie's petrified, his trainers disappear, his sits
there. The woman in red comes over "get up and face your defeat like a man!"
"Ple ... ... Please ... I ... " WACK! A kick to the side of this pathetic
man's head she's not going to listen to him. He again falls to the canvas, the
crowd are again on their feet "Finish Him! ... Finish Him!" The chant starts,
with both hands she grabs him by his head pulls him up and CRASH! UUUUHHHHHH!
Her knee smashes into his jaw, more blood fall and decorates the canvas, she
keeps him bend over WACK! CRACK! SMASH! She entertains the ecstatic crowd by
driving her knee again into his defeated body.

She pulls him up onto his feet, he's just about able to stand, but it wont be
for long "FINISH HIM! ... FINISH HIM!", The crowds chanting pound his head,
just like her fists do, she grabs his head, pulls it downwards, he's bent
double, she drives her knee hard into his abs WACK! WACK! WACK! Ms Heartless
pulls his head up, he's covered in blood, eyes all swollen and puffy, he can't
see the smile on her face. She throws his head down into the path of her knee
drive up to meet it SMACK! His head bounces off her knee, blood flies
everywhere, he staggers backward, she steps forward WACK! OOOUUUHHH! A hard
clenches fist backhander across his injured face, he again staggers backward
like some drunk "MORE! MORE!" The crowd get their wish CRACK! Another
backhander and Eddie's once more on the ropes, she too quick, too strong and
too good for him. He knows he's lost it just a case of when she goes for the
'killer blow'

WACK! WACK! FINISH HIM! ... FINISH HIM!" Eddie can't take any more, the crowd
are at fever pitch, Shouting! Screaming! Camera Flashes! Then SMASH! The
killer blow is delivered; everything stops, and then in slow motions Eddie's
nightmare comes to an end. The force of the final blows sends the defeated man
spinning round, he crashes to the floor THUD! The cheers of the crowd fill his
head and the last thing he sees is those red boots ... ... And as the darkness
engulfs him "And your winner and NEW CHAMPION is ... ... "