The Right Fight (Part 2)
Part 2
Before I describe the violent events of that morning, my readers may find it helpful to first consider a brief account of the life and person of Alonzo Morgan.
He was the kind of man that you feel as though you will remember but somehow is surprisingly easy to forget. His build gave him a unique quality, he was rather short for a man but very broad across the shoulders and chest. It was obvious that he spent a good portion of his time in a weight room.
After his build, the most noticeable trait was his eyes — a deep and reflective blue, his eyes seemed wild and somehow surprised to exist on such a face. His face lacked the symmetry to be considered handsome. A light scar under his right eye gave him an ironic, unrefined look. One of his ears was cauliflowered from wrestling and he had another scar on his scalp which disappeared into his thick dark brown hair.
Alonzo worked during the day at the school as a campus supervisor. At night and on weekends he worked as a bouncer at a very popular night club. He also wrote a relatively interesting blog which focused generally on the mistreatment of poor people in the United States.
He lived alone. He spent his weekends alone. He went to restaurants and movies alone, though generally when he wasn’t working he spent most of his time in his apartment. Very few people felt like they knew Alonzo Morgan.
Alonzo had been living this version of his life for more than three years. Before this he was a promising fighter in the world of Mixed Martial Arts, and before that a college wrestler. At some point he’d had too many concussions and was forced out of the grinding, poverty stricken world of MMA.
Not much is known of his early childhood beyond this: he was made a ward of the state at the age of 10. His father is said to have left when Alonzo was 7 or 8 years old and Alonzo’s mother died tragically three weeks after his 10th birthday. At that time the state made efforts to find relatives to care for him and to track down his absent father, however those fruitless efforts were given up after a little more than a year and Alonzo was raised until his 18th birthday in a series of group homes generally referred to as “the system.”
Very little information from those years has survived, but it is clear that Alonzo developed a penchant for fighting during the chaotic years of his childhood. It was this willingness and ability to fight which he leveraged into first a college degree and then a five year career in two of the more prominent MMA promotions.
Just as a dog will always find its favorite tennis ball, Alonzo had a tendency to find himself in the midst of physical violence.
