Today's OneWord: Lightweight

You told me all my life that I was a lightweight. A pushover. That if I ever got the chance to throw a punch, I wouldn't leave a mark. Well, after all that, with you sprawled out on your ass, sporting contusions like pink tattoos and bleeding out of the corner of your mouth...well, that says a lot about your assumptions about me, don't it?

So tell me, Baxter, before I take my fist and shove it so hard in your face that your nose bursts like a miniature supernova - am I a lightweight now? Or did I just claim the heavyweight title from you, you goddamn punk?

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