CHAPTER 118: COACH’S DREAM

Adam didn’t expect such excitement from his decision. With her hugging him, why should he let her have all the fun?

Adam wraps his hand around her tiny waist and pulls her in a little closer, making the hug much more intimate.

Feeling her breast squeeze against his lower chest made him feel a little excited, but he kept himself in control.

He so wanted to reach down and get a feel of her firm but soft asscheeks, but he knows his limits. Lamai and he are still not that close for him to get all touchy.

Lamai realizes that the hug has gotten a little too long and intimate. Feeling Adam’s strong hand on her back, the gentle pressure against her skin makes her body shiver.

Lamai presses her lips and pulls away, glancing at Adam before looking away shyly.

Adam smiles, seeing her act shy, but doesn’t call her out.

"So... now what?" Adam asks.

"Wait here, I’m gonna go bring my dad. He will start your training right today." Lamai says and scurries away in a hurry.

Adam watches her leave before bringing his attention to the few people who are already here; they all look very rough with their movements, indicating they are new here, just like him.

But unlike him, they can’t master something after just looking and reenacting it instantly.

Adam decides to warm up a little before Rangsan walks in. He does the usual he has been taught, but they don’t really take much effort out of Adam.

He is only doing it to pass the time. Luckily, he doesn’t have to wait for long.

Lamai walks back in with Rangsan following right behind her.

Adam stops whatever he was doing and looks at them. Lamai looks about than inch taller than Rangsan, making Adam wonder if her mother was taller than Rangsan as well.

It’s very rare to see a woman date a guy who is shorter than her, but whose Adam to judge?

"Continue with what you were doing," Rangsan says, seeing Adam stop.

Hearing him, Adam smiles and goes back to doing his warm-up. After he is done completing warm-ups for every part of his body, he stands back up and looks at Rangsan.

Rangsan looks back at Adam with his hands folded. His eyes eyeing Adam from head to toe, looking for something.

"Was that too easy?" Rangsan asks.

"Well... It’s not something that would make me sweat," Adam says.

Rangsan continues to stare, his experienced eyes studying Adam like some project.

His experienced eyes see how perfect Adam’s body is for MMA. Long limbs, a strong neck, thick jaw.

"Do you have any fighting experience?" Rangsan asks.

"Like in a ring?" Adam asks.

"No, just in general, like street fights or school brawls," Rangsan asks.

"Well... I did get into a fight with a few guys recently," Adam says.

"And... did you win?" Rangsan asks.

"Yes," Adam says.

"You fought them alone?" Rangsan asks.

"Yes," Adam replies, finding Rangsan’s question absurd.

"How easy was it for you?" Rangsan asks.

"Don’t wanna brag, but it was pretty easy. They didn’t have any experience with how they were swinging their hands," Adam says.

"Hmmm... Okay then. From today, I am your coach. Lamai will only substitute for me when I am not around," Rangsan says.

"Yes, coach," Adam says.

"You have decided to go pro, so let me make this clear for you. This is not a game. It’s also not a sport. People die doing this, but if you are good enough, you will get out of it much richer and more famous than ever, so, let me ask you one last time, are you really sure?" Rangsan asks.

"I am, I think I have it in me," Adam says, smiling cheekily.

Rangsan sees that Adam is confident, but he doesn’t mind it. Guys need to be confident when it comes to this sport. A single ounce of doubt and you are doomed.

"Okay then, let’s continue with your basics. Lamai has already filled me in on everything she has taught you. We will continue from there." Rangsan says.

"Get in the ring. We will start with striking. Lamai already filled me up with how good you are with grappling," Rangsan says and enters the ring with Adam, and begins the training session.

Time flies by very fast, and Adam begins to learn a lot of things, and he can tell just how much better Rangsan is at guiding him compared to Lamai.

No shade to Lamai; she is good, but her father has too much experience, both in terms of fighting and coaching. Rangsan, too, was a seasoned fighter.

Sure, he never won the big one, but he fought more than any fighter in his weight class’s history, making him a legend of the sport.

His name is still taken into consideration when it comes to having the most resilience inside the cage.

As Rangsan goes through all the steps of teaching Adam how to strike, when to strike, and where to strike, while also on how to position his body during these strikes, he quickly learns how monstrous Adam’s talent is.

He has never seen someone take to this sport so easily, so fast. He only needs to show it once, and Adam does it with perfection. It’s as if his body cannot move in the wrong way.

Rangsan found very few instances where he would actually have to point out Adam’s mistakes; well, they were not even mistakes in general, just something Adam copied to perfection. But with the difference between their body shape and height, what works for a short guy won’t work on a tall dude like Adam.

Adam quickly took in everything, and when Rangsan told him to reenact them, he did it with perfection, proving that what Lamai said about Adam is all correct.

As Rangsan realizes this, he starts getting excited.

With how good Adam is, the prospect of training a fighter into world champion status is not far off.

Rangsan thought his golden ticket to getting a world champion under his name would be Darrel, but it looks like his real ticket is the young man before him.

And if everything goes right, he will not only have one, but two world champions under his name.

Rangsan has won a lot of tournaments in his life, title after title, but that illustrious world championship has never touched his hands.

His career came to an end when he lost for the third time against the then world champion of his weight class, and he retired.

Rangsan chose to continue with MMA as a coach. If he can’t win a world championship, he will train someone to get it.

But training a world champion is not an easy task either. First, one needs to find a world champion prospect, then train them to be good enough to win a few fights, help them get better ever after they hit a plateau. Then go after the world champion himself, which is the hardest of all.

Rangsan has been in this business for a while now, and this is not the first time he has come across a world champion prospect. He in fact, has trained many, but not even one could survive this brutal sport.

All of them started well; they were talented, but when the fight got tough, their toughness went away, and they disappeared into obscurity.

Darren is his latest project, and his most promising one. Darren already has the mindset of a champion, his physical condition is great, and he is at the prime of his life.

But even for a great fighter like Darren, the chances of him becoming a world champion right now are extremely slim.

Rangsan’s hope of getting his hands on a world championship keeps fading every day.

But now, something has changed. Something drastic has happened. A monster has walked into his gym.

A type of monster he has never encountered before. A monster who puts all those past world champion prospects he trained in the past to shame.

This monster, Adam. He is the most perfect world champion prospect.

With Adam, he can finally get his hands on the world championship.

Rangsan’s eyes sparkle as he fantasizes about hanging a world championship on his gym’s wall.

To show the world that he Rangsan Ayutthaya has what it takes to train a world champion.

"Okay, that’s it for today. We will continue with this tomorrow," Rangsan says as it’s been over two hours now.

He is once again surprised by how Adam still looks fresh, only breathing lightly after all that punching and kicking he was doing.

Someone with no experience when it comes to fighting gets very easily tired after throwing their hands for a few seconds. Adam seems to have all the juice he needs to keep on going.

The more he thinks about Adam’s scary potential, the more excited Rangsan says.

"See you tomorrow, coach," Adam says and heads back to the locker room to change back into his casual clothes as Lamai and Rangsan watch.

"Do you think he can become the world champion?" Lamai asks.

"I don’t think... I know... I have never even heard of anyone as good as him. That gold is a guarantee," Rangsan says with a gleeful smile as he leaves the gym.

Lamai looks at her father, surprised. She has never seen her father look so happy.

But then again, she knows that getting his hands on a world championship is her father’s greatest dream. He taught her how to fight also for the same reason. But unlike Adam, she doesn’t see herself as a world champion prospect.