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56.
THE HOLE
 The
walls
separating the basements of this cluster of buildings
have been knocked out. The rest of the buildings
are home to their prospective business, a Mexican
restaurant, a beauty salon at either end, and the 3 in
the middle which currently sit empty. But the
basement is known collectively as the Hole. The
hole is where all manner of blood sports take
place. On any given day you find cock fights,
dog fights, snakes versus mongoose, word is they even
had two chimps once. Every day of the week,
something is fighting and dying here to frothing at
the mouth crowds of onlookers betting on the
outcome.
 Friday
nights
is where the real action is. On Friday nights
they stage underground bare knuckle pit fighting
here. Most of the time the fights go till
someone is knocked out or gives up… but deaths occur,
and serious, even lifelong injuries are not
uncommon. Occasionally, two opponents who have a
serious beef with each other will even agree to fight
to the death.
 While
the
Hole is run by Stomp, the fights are open to anyone,
of either gender, and a good fighter can make a lot of
money here. However its best to remember that
this is the Combat Zone, and medical care can be hard
to come by reliably and quickly. Once the fight
begins there are no rules, however fighters are agreed
to meet each other, and be given the opportunity to
size each other up before the fight starts, only when
both fighters agree after this, will the fight
commence. Normally the fights don’t pay the
fighters directly, instead the fighters bet on
themselves. But sometimes, for very large sums
of money… specialty fights will be arranged… for
instance a heavily cybered opponent may be paired with
several opponents at once, or someone may have to
fight an animal, usually one of the more vicious
dogs. Really anything goes, and occasionally
Stomp members who have beef will be forced to settle
their dispute here.
These
types of places are all over the Zone, Slaughterhouse
has their own equivalent, so does Maelstrom.
There are times when disputes between gangs are
settled in this manner. This usually happens at
the Martin Luther King football field at night.
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