Great Outdoor Fight 1973

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The Great Outdoor Fight of 1973 is widely considered to be the greatest in history. It was the first and last fight Champion Rodney Leonard Stubbs ever fought. He personally killed or maimed 2,796 men with his bare hands, 25 with clods of dirt, and 1 with a beer bottle.

[edit] The First Day

The first day of the fight started out like any other. Within the first few hours five armies (three large and two minor) had arisen, and Rodney had crippled three people who had attempted to fight him. He began to attract attention, and would have been able to form an army if he had not beaten any man to a pulp who came within 10 meters of him. Soon he began his infamous Dirt Rampage, where "Slick" Johnny Bonetti told Rodney that he would make him "eat dirt", whereupon Rodney suffocated Bonetti and every last one of his men with the very soil of the acres. He refused to participate in the fight entertainment, and instead took on the army of Donwald Cassidy, which was 200 strong, in less than two hours. But the best was yet to come.

[edit] The Second Day

Rodney did not sleep during the night, but had instead spent it taking down all the non-army related fighters. This did not slow him during the second day, but instead seemed to energize him. He soon moved on the army of Burney Tassarack, which had swelled to 1,000 strong, with all of the loners seeking refuge from Rodney. While Burney and the others dined, Rodney took on each one of the 1,000 personally, often at times stopping them from turning on each other when they could fight him. By the time the leaders were finished eating, Rodney had eliminated the entire army, and personally killed Burney and Daniel "The Kid" Boleskwi, and broke the kneecaps of Brad Sweden as they stepped out of their tent. Without any leaders, the fight would usually devolve into a massive free-for-all, but Rodney spoke quietly, in words that echoed over the entire Acres: "You fools want to win this fight? Then rest tonight and face me in the morning. 'cause that's the only way you could ever beat me."

No one fought that night.

[edit] The Third Day

The Third Day was the greatest 7 hours in fight history. It was not a free-for-all, it was not a brawl, it wasn't even a bloodbath. It was a duel. A duel with Rodney Leonard Stubbs on one side and every last man on the other.

Rodney didn't go berserk. He didn't fugue. He, with cold precision, handed each and every single one their ass.

It was during this time that he tore off Fancy Mark Clancy's middle. He threw a beer bottle through Carl Veldt's head. He was unstoppable.

The last man to fall was Carlo Rodenkin, whom Rodney mercifully left with only two broken legs. He went on to form the Rodney Leonard Stubbs Fight Rehabilitation Center.

When asked about his record being broken, Young Jude Surrency said "There wasn't a sonuvabitch on the acres whose blood wasn't on that man's hands."

The Man with the Blood on his Hands.

[edit] Epilogue

Rodney Stubbs' showmanship and uncompromising nature inspired a generation of artists, including folk musician Bret Phipps (who himself was the 126th man to fall by Rodney's hand). Phipps went on to write a song in his honor, "The Man with the Blood on His Hands," which would remain on the 1974 Top 40 chart for an astonishing seventeen weeks and contribute to Rodney's lasting fame.

Never a sociable man, Rodney abandoned his wife, Sondra, and unborn son and disappeared from the public eye some years after his victory. Rumors placed him everywhere from a monastery in Tibet to a village in the Congo, but reliable sources indicate that he ascended to the shadowy Ruling Body and watched every Fight unfold for the next thirty years from the vantage of Tower One.