Stephen's first loss changed everything.
It wasn't just a mark on his record, or a number added beside his name. It was something far deeper than that. It shifted the way he saw boxing, the way he saw himself, and the future he had once believed was set in stone.
Yet even after that night, Stephen still went to the gym.
He didn't know how not to.
The gym had always been his world. It was where he learned how to survive, how to fight, and how to endure pain. Without it, he had nothing else to fall back on. He didn't have education, connections, or another trade waiting for him. Boxing was the only thing he knew how to do, and it was the only way he knew how to earn money.
So he kept training.
