Authentic Grappling

08:10 Anderson_Jones:

08:11 Anderson_Jones: The Factory Presents: Anderson & Andre and the Intimacy of Fighting.

08:11 Rafael_Figueroa: Chapter One: Rafael and the history of the AJ’s.

08:12 Rafael_Figueroa: I was three years older than Anderson Jones and Andre Jordan and three years farther along in my Brazilian jiu jitsu/mma training at Fabio Clemente’s Studio X in the East Village when they joined the school as white belts. Professor Clemente had allowed me to join his Elite Team and that meant I was required to start teaching the white belts classes. The AJ’s, as we called them, came to the school as both champion wrestlers and took to jiu jitsu like fish to water. It was clear from the jump how tight they were and watching how joyfully they rolled together I fell in love with them as well. In short order they became like younger brothers to me.

08:12 Rafael_Figueroa: Fabio Clemente himself saw the talent potential in them and asked me to pair them together. “How better to sharpen their bodies and skills than to match up two equal lions on the mat,” he told me, but being busy he didn’t see what I did; that they were already “paired” together of their own accord. In fact, I seemed to be one of the few who saw how tight was their bond because all everyone else saw was how intensely they competed every time they would randori. Other’s worried they were constantly on the verge of actually fighting, but I just saw their innate talent and their commitment to high intensity training. I knew that they felt safe with each other when they rolled, but I knew them outside of school and saw just how gentle and sweet they were with each other in private. They were still so young I don’t think even they recognized that they were in love.

08:12 Rafael_Figueroa: The AJ’s were almost purple belts in less than 2 years and had quite easily combined their jiu jitsu and wrestling with the necessary standing and striking skills to be proficient mma fighters. It was then they entered the world of the underground sex fighting circuit and took it by the balls. Their own rivalry quickly became much hyped by promoters in those early days and they made a lot of money, so few knew of their private love affair.

08:12 Rafael_Figueroa: The intimacy of the bond forged in battle is a strange thing. Sometimes it can create the worst of enemies, but between fighters with pure hearts it can create the most intense loving bond no matter how hard they fight in battle. This was how it was for Andre and Anderson, until one day Christiano Braga offered to train with Andre in a lunar spar in Brazil for an entire month. Braga was already a rising star in the international sex fighting league and so it was a prestigeous offer; one Andre could not turn down, but he might have had he known it would cause a rupture in his bond with Anderson.

08:12 Rafael_Figueroa: When Andre finally returned to NYC Anderson had moved to train and fight on the west coast and refused to return Andre’s calls. His hurt seemed irrational at the time and Andre’s was heart broken. Anderson would never know about all the times Dre spent at my place sobbing in my big brother arms, but Anderson’s hurt was deep and painful too, and it produced a rage in him that when next he and Andre fought it was a bloodbath. The refs had to separate them and the fight was judged No Contest for both of them. They were banned from ever fighting again. I was around for all of this and it was like witnessing an epic tragedy. I never knew how to fix what was broken between them. They were much loved in the jiu jitsu and sex fighting scene in NYC and no one could understand this beef. Dre and Anders refused to talk about it even with their closest friends.

08:12 Rafael_Figueroa: As time went by Dre went to train with his friends Remy Cooper and mattycerone and eventually they all joined up with Jake Vaughn, Yuki James and Sean Williams at The Factory while Anders went to his best friend Mike Yousef and together they opened up an elite private sex fighter training gym. All went on to be successful in the underground circuit and though somewhere along the line Remy and Mike became friends and rivals [1], neither of them could even get Dre and Anders to talk about the past.

08:13 Anderson_Jones:

08:13 Christiano_Braga: Chapter two: Christiano the Jiu Jitsu Whisperer

08:13 Christiano_Braga: My boyfriend [[characters/|Elijah_James]] and I have been living and training at The Factory for a few months now and it has been great seeing Remy, Andre and Nate again, all of who traveled to train the Lunar spar 2 with me just outside my home town of Barra da Lagoa, a small coastal town in Brazil. My connection with these men is almost as powerful as my love for EJ, and so it has been especially satisfying to watch them take him into their hearts as a teammate and brother. We feel at home here and the training has been fantastic. EJ has become especially fond of training with Nate because they both have grappling roots in American freestyle wrestling and solid Jiu Jitsu games.

08:14 Christiano_Braga: As Remy has been busy with his 3 sanctioned bouts with [[​​characters/Thomas_Wright|Thomas_Wright]] and strength training with Hassan Malik 3, I have been spendinging my time training with Yuki as his BJJ game is next level and we have the most to teach each other through randori. Dre was in the mix with us for awhile, but has been somewhat moody and distant ever since The Factory hosted Remy and Thomas’ last fight and we invited Tom’s teammates Mike and Anderson from the Alpha Institute. I never intrude on my brothers’ thoughts unless invited, so Yuki and I focused on rolling with each other and were becoming quite close as well. So I was surprised to see Rafael outside the private 3rd floor mat room suite waiting for me instead of Yuki. “Ola Rafa, nice to see you old friend. How are you?”

08:14 Rafael_Figueroa: Cris and I have history. We met on my first trip to the European Sex Fighting scene and mixed it up some. We were both proud to represent Brazil and even more competitive because we were both Brazilian. In the end I don’t think either of us could remember who won or lost this or that match; we remember the fighter's bond we cemented. And now it’s just great having him and Elijah on the team with us. “Good to see you too, Cris. Do you mind if I roll with you today? I told Yuki I had something I needed to sort out with you and we always see things more clearly when we randori.”

08:14 Christiano_Braga: “Yeah, brother. I can see darkness weighing down your beautiful spirit. We definitely need to randori together.” We walk together into the grappling suite, bow to the mat, then go to the center across from each other and get on our knees. We slap “shake” and say in portuguese “Pronto,” then slide into each other. We roll non-stop, both getting some solid submissions, but we just tap and keep rolling. We both know the deeper lesson is not in the submission, but in the fluid movements that connect us as men. After about an hour we are both sweat soaked in our fight squares. Our salty taste and masculine musk invades each other’s mouths and noses. We roll apart and sit on our haunches. I stay quiet and listen, just extending my presence towards Rafa.

08:15 Rafael_Figueroa: “Our brother Andre is hurting and I don’t know how to help him. Ever since he saw Anders at Remy and Tom’s Fight it’s like a scar has been ripped open and he is just bleeding inside.”

08:15 Christiano_Braga: “Brother, Anderson is a great fighter, his heart has always felt true to me. What has happened between him and Andre?”
08:15 Rafael_Figueroa: I tell Christiano about how in their youth they had a great love for each other and were brother warriors, but that when Andre accepted his offer to train the Lunar Spar, for some reason Anderson felt betrayed and became enraged. I tell him about the fight that got way out of control and had to be stopped, and how they never spoke again after that night. Christiano looks perplexed and then suddenly quite sad. “What is it brother?”

08:15 Christiano_Braga: “I offered the Lunar Spar to Anderson first. Professor Clemente said he had two very promising fighters and suggested Anderson. I did not know either of them when I made the offer, but I told Anderson of the very spiritual and intimate nature of the Lunar Spar, about how we would randori naked in nature for a full lunar cycle, about how we would sex fight and fuck relentlessly until we had taken each other’s grappler’s soul and style into each other. Anderson decided it was not for him, and so professor Clemente gave me Andre’s name and he accepted. I did not know they were lovers. I only knew they both trained under the professor. And you know Clemente, he is an old school Brazilian from the favelas. He has no eyes for the heart, only for fighting. Poor Anderson, he must have said no out of loyalty to his bond with Andre, but never told Andre about the offer. Dre never spoke of it the entire time we trained together.”

08:15 Rafael_Figueroa: “He must have been heart-broken. It makes sense now, but all we saw at the time in his youth was petulant rage. And neither one of them would talk to each other or to anyone else. Watching them randori like wild animals in their youth was a joyful sight. I knew they were in love before they did, but they still won’t talk.”

08:16 Christiano_Braga: “They have no words for the pain of their ruptured bond. They built their bond through their love of fighting, they will only find their way back to each other through fighting, but not in public. They must be surrounded by their brothers in ritual sex fighting combat and it has to be in Nature.”

08:16 Rafael_Figueroa: “The closest thing to nature we have in the city available for a group of naked sex fighters is the roof top garden, but it has a large grassy area and a 20 x 20 mat we can gather around comfortably, will that work?”
08:16 Christiano_Braga: “Yes, and I will talk to Andre. I think I can get him to go to Anderson. Can you talk to Anderson and get him to have a face to face with Andre?”

08:16 Rafael_Figueroa: “I will try. Anders has become quite stubborn as an adult and holds a powerful grudge, but Remy is good friends and rivals with his best friend Mike. I know Mike wants the bad blood gone too, both so his friend can heal and because, even though they run a successful sex fighting school at The Alpha Institute, I know in his heart he would love to train with us here at the Factory.

08:17 Anderson_Jones:

08:17 Christiano_Braga: Chapter Three: Christiano and Andre

08:17 Christiano_Braga: I take the night to think through my conversation with Rafa and all the revelations our randori brought to light. They were painful ones for me, knowing how my past choices reverberated through the years and caused so much pain for my beloved brothers. During my morning meditation I become aware that I may have caused another pair of lovers similar harm. I sigh and promise myself I will make amends there as well after I work to heal the rupture between the AJ’s. I get up and go look for Andre.

08:17 Christiano_Braga: I find him on the first floor at the Factory school for the grappling arts where I know Andre enjoys teaching the white belt jiu jitsu classes. It reminds him of his origins and normally he finds gratitude in the work, but today he is barking at his students for playing grab ass, for not focusing on their drills. I ask one of the school's instructors to take over the class so that we may speak. He comes over to me in a huff.

08:17 Andre_Jordan: “Bro, I am fucking working here.”

08:18 Christiano_Braga: “So, you are going to yell at me now instead of these kids?”

08:18 Andre_Jordan: “I’m trying to teach these kids and they are not listening; They need more discipline.”

08:18 Christiano_Braga: “It is you who is not listening.”

08:18 Andre_Jordan: “Cris, what the fuck.”

08:18 Christiano_Braga: “These kids idolize you, Andre. I’ve seen you show them such grace, they work their asses off to please you, but you are not connecting to them, you’re not connecting to me. You are not listening with your heart.
08:19 Andre_Jordan: “Cris, I don’t have time for your Brazilian spiritualist bullshit.”

08:19 Christiano_Braga: “And you don’t have time to cover your pain with false anger any longer. Please, old friend, come with me. There is something you need to know.”

08:19 Christiano_Braga: I can see my last comment hit him harder than I had intended. “Brother,” I say while putting my arm around his wide shoulders and looking tenderly into his eyes. “Please come with me to a place where we can talk properly.” He finally softens some and sinks into a sullen silence as we step onto the elevator and take it all the way to the rooftop garden. We walk to the patio that overlooks the big grassy lawn and sit down.

08:19 Christiano_Braga: “Have you noticed Nate Rogers has been moping around here barely interested in training and his partner, Sean Jackson, has chosen to look after Eddie’s gym and separate himself from us for some time now?”
08:20 Andre_Jordan: “I guess I have been aware in a general way, but I try not to invade our teammates' private lives unless they ask directly.”

08:20 Christiano_Braga: “Yes, in that way you are a good leader here, and it is clear your brothers respect you a great deal. I just wanted to share first that I trained the lunar spar with Nate, as you know, but now I notice the distance that separates him from Sean who hasn’t set foot in the Factory for months.”
08:20 Andre_Jordan: “Yes, I have noticed that too, but I know sometimes fighters in relationships need space from each other from time to time. You think there is more going on?”

08:20 Christiano_Braga: “I do. I think the deeply intimate experience of the lunar spar I enjoyed with Nate may have come between them. I don’t know this to be true for certain, but the real thing I need to share with you has led me to wonder about them as well.”

08:21 Andre_Jordan: “Cris, you’re starting to freak me out. Can you just tell me what you have to say?”

08:21 Christiano_Braga: “At Fabio Clemente’s suggestion I offered the lunar spar to Anderson, but he turned it down. I did not know at the time that he and you were close, so I made the same offer to you next.” Andre’s face turns ashen. “Rafael came to randori with me yesterday and told me just how close you Anderson were in those days. He also told me Anderson confided in him that he turned down the lunar spar because it felt too intimate to him and did not want to be disrespectful to his relationship with you.”

08:21 Andre_Jordan: “Fuck.”

08:21 Christiano_Braga: “I don’t know what is true, but I fear that I was the cause of the rift between you two.”

08:21 Andre_Jordan: “He never told me.”

08:21 Christiano_Braga: “I know that now.”

08:22 Andre_Jordan: “ I loved our time together in Brazil, Christiano, but I had always intended to return to NYC and share everything I had learned with Anders, but he had moved to California and stopped talking to me.”

08:22 Christiano_Braga: “I know.” One single tear runs down Andre’s cheek.

08:22 Andre_Jordan: “Fuck.”

08:22 Christiano_Braga: “You need to go to him, talk to him and tell him about all of this.”

08:23 Andre_Jordan: “Brother, he hasn’t talked with me in years.”

08:23 Christiano_Braga: “Well, we are men of honor and brotherhood, first and foremost, so we never quit and always start with talking. Clearly his heart was broken, but he did not know how to tell you. So, go to him. Speak from your heart that I see running down your cheek. And if that does not work, you must challenge him to a fight. You guys built what you had from your shared love of Jiu jitsu, let that bring you back together in ritual combat right here in your beautiful rooftop garden.”

08:23 Andre_Jordan: “The last time we fought we nearly killed each other.”

08:23 Christiano_Braga: “Yes, but this time there will be no spectators, you will be surrounded by the loving brotherhood you created here. As we speak, Rafael is talking to Remy and Mike in the hopes that they can reach Anderson’s heart too, and if talking doesn’t work, they will keep the peace and encourage him to settle this in ritual combat.

08:24 Andre_Jordan: “Fuck,” I say for the third time and wiping the tears from my eyes. “I will go speak to Rafa and Remy when they return and figure this out.”

08:24 Christiano_Braga: “I am proud of you, Andre, and I love you. You are a good man and so is Anderson. In my heart I have faith in both of you.”

08:24 Andre_Jordan: “I love you too, Cris.”

08:24 Anderson_Jones:

08:25 Rafael_Figueroa: Chapter Four: An Assembly of Brothers - Part One

08:26 Rafael_Figueroa: I reach out to both Remy and Mike and ask them if they would meet with me in private to discuss new information that has come to light about Dre and Anders falling out. We agreed to meet at the new backyard patio the Factory helped finance behind Eddie’s Gym in the Bronx. I spill all the tea to Remy before we even leave the Factory and take the subway to Eddie’s.

08:26 Remy_Cooper: “I don’t know man, I get that Dre has come around some, but Anders comes from a tough background and his trust once broken is hard to get back. I played no part in any of this and he barely speaks to me, even though his best friend Mike and I are tight. Plus, you might not have seen it, but Dre has a fucking temper too. If Anders lights even the smallest fuse, they will go bang.”

08:26 Rafael_Figueroa: “I hear you, brother, but we have to try. Plus, if they do go bang Christiano has a plan for that too. I will tell you and Mike all about it when we get to Eddie’s.” We get to the back patio and Mike is already there waiting for us, looking nervous.

08:26 Remy_Cooper: “Sup Mikey, good to see you bro, looking stud as always,” I say and we lock into each other for a strong muscle hug.

08:27 Mike_Yousef: “Yeah, Bro, great to see you too, wish it could be more often. I had a great time with everyone at the Factory the night of your fight with Thomas 4. By the way, are you ever going to give Tom back to us?” I joke.

08:27 Rafael_Figueroa: “We love Thomas. I think Dre was only able to keep up that “Loser is the winner’s boy” routine for about a minute. He has spent the week just being an honorary member of the Factory.” It’s my turn to enjoy a strong muscle hug with Mike. As he starts to let go I squeeze him tight to me and stay holding him. “We hope that after we talk today, maybe, just maybe there might be a way forward for us all to be a family together at the Factory.” I Let him go and we all take a seat around the new nice patio furniture.

08:27 Mike_Yousef: “So what's all this about some new information about Dre and Anders?”

08:28 Remy_Cooper: I see Rafa looking at me and nodding for me to tell the tale because of my closer relationship with Mike. I explain the whole miscommunication and drama surrounding Christiano’s offers to both Anders and Dre, what each of them did and did not know due to their hurt and stubborn anger. Mike nods, listening carefully. “So we want to approach Anders, best if it is the three of us, to see if he will have a sit down to hear Dre’s apology and explanation. We want us to be there as their closest friends so they can feel our sense of brotherhood, and of course step in if things go south.”

08:28 Mike_Yousef: “I see how long he has suffered. I see him still suffering, but you know him guys, he just flips pain into rage like we flip light switches. During the Pandemic we were alone together and trained a lot, just the two of us for months.I finally got him to talk some about his childhood. His Father kicked him out for being gay and his Mother refused to speak to him to this day. I don’t think he ever got over their abandoning him. So as I listen to what you guys are saying, I think when Dre chose to train the lunar spar with Cris, he felt abandoned all over again, especially because Dre was his ONLY family and he turned down Cris’s offer out of fear of losing Dre.

08:28 Remy_Cooper: “Fuck me. This is all starting to make more sense now. What a shame. Dre can be almost as stubborn, but I know that he never got over losing Anders. Every now and again he will share memories of the good times he had training jiu jitsu as white belts and will brag about how he and Anders were gonna take the underground fight scene by storm. I never say anything because he always looks so happy when he revisits those times, but it always seems to end up putting him in a hood. I have to drag his black ass to a mat room and randori with him just to make him feel better.”

08:29 Rafael_Figueroa: “Well brothers, with insights from Christiano, it looks like we have put all the parts together, now we have to help them do the same. If we can get them in the same space and keep them from killing each other long enough, maybe we can help them talk it out. If they remain the stubborn idiots we know and love, Christiano has a ritual combat idea he wants to stage on our rooftop garden where they will be surrounded by family. Cris seems to think their original bond was forged in their mutual love of jiu jitsu and fighting and that healing may require them re-experiencing their original shared passion together. He’s got a plan.

08:29 Mike_Yousef: “It better be a good plan because it’s gonna take all of us to pull them apart if things get out of hand. You know those two don’t play when their pissed.”

08:29 Remy_Cooper: “So when do you think is a good time to approach Anders?”

08:29 Mike_Yousef: “Well, actually, he tends to be super chill after he teaches his jiu jitsu class for the kids from the Bronx Youth Center that serves kids in foster care and in the juvenile justice system. It reminds him of how he came up. If we go now we can get to the Alpha Institute before he’s done.”

08:30 Rafael_Figueroa: “That’s perfect man. You know, I bet he doesn’t even know Dre does the same thing for the kids from The Door at 6th and Broome in Soho, just a few blocks from The Factory. Shit, if we can’t get these two fools to forgive I say we just take them out,” I say in exasperation, but then Remy and Mike fall out laughing and I start laughing too. On the way out we call Andre and tell him to meet us at the Alpha institute; Remy will be waiting for him outside while Mike and I go in first to ambassador the shit out of all this drama.

08:30 Anderson_Jones:

08:31 Anderson_Jones: Chapter Five: An Assembly of Brothers - Part Two

08:31 Mike_Yousef: Rafa and I walk into the central mat area where Anders is just finishing up with the kids. He is sitting cross legged on the floor with them in a circle and talking to them about how to quiet their minds when they train. He looks up and smiles at us, then returns to the kids.

08:31 Anderson_Jones: “I know you guys all want to win, but winners come from teams and teammates got each other’s backs. When we train together, it’s not about how many taps you can get, it’s about how we can help each other all get better. Teams are only as strong as their weakest link and everyone matters here at The Alpha Institute, and Y’all matter to me. So lock elbows and close your eyes. Kenisha, Jackson, come on now, we almost done. That’s right, lock elbows, feel that you're all a link in this larger chain we call a team. Close your eyes and repeat after me. “No Ego, here we go. Here we go, no ego. We are good enough. We are strong enough. We are team enough. No ego and we win together.” Great job today Y’all. Don’t forget to pick up the lunch boxes for your younger brothers and sisters on your way out. Peace.”

08:31 Mike_Yousef: As the kids start to pick up their lunch boxes and go outside to an awaiting bus, Rafa and I walk over to Anders. “Hey brother, you have a good class today?”

08:31 Anderson_Jones: “Always, Mikey, I love these kids,” I say as I turn to Rafa and feign a take down shoot, then pop up and squeeze him tight. “It’s so good to see you, big brother. It’s been too long. Why don’t you come round more often to train with us?”

08:32 Rafael_Figueroa: “You know I love to randori with you and Mike. Somebody’s gotta keep your egos in check,” I say smiling at him.

08:32 Anderson_Jones: “So to what do we owe the honor then?”

08:32 Mike_Yousef: “I invited him here because we both wanted to talk with you.” Anders looks concerned but still open.

08:32 Rafael_Figueroa: “Since I returned from fighting in the European circuit I have been training with our brothers at The Factory. I needed a place to stay and they gave me a home. And it seems all our old friends are returning to the nest. mattycerone, Sam Kwon, Yuki James, Jake Vaughn and Sean Williams have all returned to train with all the new guys. But we are broken without you and Mike, little brother. I come to you today with an open heart for you, as I always do, to ask you to come back to us.”

08:33 Anderson_Jones: I look at Mike who looks at me plainly and with an open posture, and then back at Rafa’s pleading eyes. “You know I can’t do that, Rafa.”

08:33 Rafael_Figueroa: “Why brother?”

08:33 Anderson_Jones: “Damn it, you know why. Mike, what the fuck, man?”

08:33 Mike_Yousef: “Brother, Andre is waiting outside with Remy. He just wants to talk to you.”

08:33 Anderson_Jones: “So he brought Remy as back up?”

08:34 Mike_Yousef: “ No man, listen to yourself. You have been angry for so long you forget Remy is our brother. He is not here to fight you. He is here to support you and Andre.”

08:34 Anderson_Jones: “Unbelievable.”

08:34 Rafael_Figueroa: “They are just here to talk with you. We all want to talk with you. And Dre has something he wants to say to you. Don’t forget, little brother, I remember when both of you were thick as thieves. Please let him just say his peace.”

08:34 Anderson_Jones: “And if I let him, you two promise to leave it alone?”

08:34 Mike_Yousef: “Brother, I will always have your back.”

08:35 Anderson_Jones: “Okay then, bring that fucker in and let’s just get this bullshit over with.”

08:35 Rafael_Figueroa: I reach out and gently grab Anders by the shoulder, looking into his eyes imploringly. “Thank you, little brother.” I go outside and nod at Dre and Remy. They walk in and slowly approach Anders and Mike with open postures and peaceful expressions.

08:35 Remy_Cooper: I have to fight the urge to hug Mike and Rafa as would be our normal greeting, but I refrain and instead Nod at each of them and say “It’s good to see you again, brother Anderson.” He ignores me and looks with rising anger in his eyes at Dre.

08:35 Andre_Jordan: I can feel the tension spike in the large mat area and I can feel Anderson’s eyes bore into mine with intense anger and aggression. “Hello, Brother, it’s good to see you after so many years.”

08:36 Anderson_Jones: “Whatever, Dre, say what you came here to say and then go.”

08:36 Andre_Jordan: I look him straight in the eyes, breathing deeply to keep my body soft and open. “I am sorry I hurt you and I miss you.” I see Anderson seething but I continue. “I just yesterday found out from Christiano that he offered the lunar spar to you first and you turned it down. He said he thinks you did that for me.”

08:36 Anderson_Jones: “You know what? Fuck Christiano, and Fuck you AND your apology. I should have finished you off in our last fight.”

08:37 Mike_Yousef: “Anders!”

08:37 Rafael_Figueroa: I move to Mike and put my arm around him to quiet him, remembering Christiano’s plan. Remy moves towards us leaving Dre and Anders alone in this. We all look like we are about to witness the scene of a crime.

08:37 Andre_Jordan: “Yeah, but you couldn’t do it. Was that because deep down you didn’t want to hurt me that bad?”

08:37 Anderson_Jones: “You got lucky they stopped the fight.”

08:37 Andre_Jordan: I walk up to Anders and get right in his face eye to eye; our hot breath steaming into each other’s faces. “You can let your pride tell you anything you want, but I didn't set out to hurt you. I want to make it right by you. But I think you’re afraid if we squash this beef you’ll find out I turned out the better sex fighter!”

08:38 Anderson_Jones: “Yeah? Well I think you and Remy have gotten soft, that’s why Mike and I had to do our own thing,” I growl menacingly.

08:38 Andre_Jordan: I am so fucking furious, but I breath and barely maintain my composure. “Soft huh? Then in front of our assembled brothers here, I challenge you to ritual combat, just you and me and our brothers to watch me take you down and fuck you.”

08:38 Remy_Cooper: “Fuck me,” I think to myself. This could go south fast. How did we let Cris talk us into this insanity? These two are so stubborn they could actually cripple each other.

08:38 Anderson_Jones: : “Aww you dumb mother fucker. You really gonna give me a second bite at that apple?”

08:38 Andre_Jordan: “Bring it, Bitch.”

08:39 Anderson_Jones: “It’s your funeral. I call for an MMA sex fight where the winner must seed the loser’s ass with his full load.”

08:39 Andre_Jordan: “It’s your funeral. I call for an MMA sex fight where the winner must seed the loser’s ass with his full load.”

08:39 Rafael_Figueroa: And with that they were about to exchange fists, but Remy moves in to restrain Dre and Mike to restrain Anders, leaving me in the middle. “For the record, I think you are both fucking idiots. But if this is how it’s gonna be, we will handle the arrangements. We will send Thomas back so he and Mike will back up Anders, and Remy will back up Dre. And with that they both storm off in separate directions and we all give a sigh of relief, at least for now.

08:42 Anderson_Jones:

08:42 Rafael_Figueroa: Chapter Six: The Intimacy of Fighting.

08:42 Rafael_Figueroa: Saturday arrives and as the sun is going down Andre and Anderson prepare for their sex fight in antechambers turned dressing rooms on opposite sides of the rooftop garden. They are accompanied by Remy and Mike, both of whom have stopped trying to reason with either of them and have been in contact to discuss when and how to intervene should this fight get totally out of control. The rest of the brotherhood, all dressed in vale tudo square cut fight shorts only, are milling about the patio nervously chatting. Hassan is trying to keep Thomas calm. Having spent time with everyone at the Factory for a full week he had grown to love his brothers there, but having started out training with Mike and Anders as their best student at the Alpha Institute his loyalties have him hopelessly conflicted.

08:42 Rafael_Figueroa: A 20 x 20 mat has been placed in the center of the grassy area, and as the fight involves mixed martial arts, two padded walls have been erected to corner the back of the mat. Christiano and Elijah light the big torches that surround the open sides of the mat and as the sun disappears completely from the summer sky the flames cast an eerie, glowing light on the proceedings. Christiano and Elijah then take up their places behind ceremonial drums used during Jiu Jitsu matches in Brazil and as they begin to play a background rhythmic hum fills the air with a sacred energy, connecting all the assembled brothers to each other and calling them to take their places sitting on their haunches around the mat.

08:42 Rafael_Figueroa: Andre emerges from the north side of the rooftop garden barefoot wearing his black jiu jitsu Gi robe followed by Remy. Andre takes up a position on his side of the mat while Remy disrobes and takes his place with the rest of the brothers sitting on his haunches on one side of the corner of the mat across from the padded walls. Next Anderson emerges from the south side of the rooftop garden also barefoot and wearing his black jiu jitsu Gi robe followed by Mike. Anderson takes up a position on his side of the mat while Mike disrobes and sits on his haunches on the corner opposite but next to Remy. They sit next to each other as a sign of solidarity for all of us and everyone is happy for their leadership tonight.

08:43 Rafael_Figueroa: Andre and Anders bow to the mat and walk towards each other. For all their rage we witnessed the other day, they both look supremely calm as they stand two feet apart just looking deeply into each other’s eyes like they were playing some kind of invisible game of chicken. They stand there looking at each other for what seems like forever until finally they move to untie their Gi belts and let their robes fall open as their enormous alpha cocks jut upwards towards each other. Then they slide the robes down off their shoulders and let them fall to the mat and they stand there like magnificent matching onyx statues. Mike and Remy scoot out onto the mat to retrieve the robes and then return to their places as the drumming continues to fill the air. The first action we see is the two of them cross their thick muscle cocks and just rub them together slowly as they speak under their breath so no one but they can hear.

08:43 Andre_Jordan: “I always loved your Cock, brother, especially when we rubbed them together to spark a fire. But, you won’t be needing yours tonight,” I say, letting our cocks rub their veined shafts side by side and feeling them get even harder as I give you an aggressively determined look.

08:43 Anderson_Jones: “Yeah, we were young and cock proud and it felt perfect until you betrayed me,” I respond, letting you feel the pulsating power of my cock as we continue to rub them together and I return your look with one of defiance.
08:44 Andre_Jordan: “You were my guy and you were too fucking jealous to stick it out. You're the one who left me without a word and broke my heart. So stop being a little bitch and take this beating like a man for a change,” I say with escalating fury and shove you backwards with both palms to your chest.

08:44 Anderson_Jones: I immediately shove you back even harder, feeling intense rage building. “You were my only family. I had no one else and you went trotting off to Brazil leaving me alone. I am gonna give you the beating you deserve!”

08:44 Andre_Jordan: I see red and instinctively shoot a double leg takedown, dropping you on your ass and scrambling up your body. You throw up a lightning fast jiu jitsu leg guard around my waist, locking your ankles at my lower back, but I still manage to slam right and left fists into your head and face before you are able to yank me back with your strong grappler’s legs. “Yeah Fucker.”

08:44 Anderson_Jones: I take two tough shots to the head and face and am already tasting the metallic taste of blood in my mouth as I yank you backwards and then quickly forwards with my leg guard, slamming a fist into your face from my back, then grab your neck with my right hand and yank your face into my chest where I send two more tough jabs to the side of your head with my left fist. “That’s right Dre, fuck you too.”

08:44 Andre_Jordan: Testosterone and adrenaline spike as I take incoming fists and I immediately shove my forearm into your throat and windpipe, pushing your chin upwards as I use it as fulcrum to pop my head up out from under your hand, and once regaining an upright position, start slamming more fists down into your face brutally. “I was going to come back and teach you everything I learned from Cris in Brazil. We were going to be champions together!”

08:45 Mike_Yousef: “Damn, Remy, this is hard to watch.”

08:45 Remy_Cooper: “I know man, it’s like they can only talk about their pain while they beat the fuck out of each other.”

08:45 Anderson_Jones: I’m taking some serious ground n pound, but am saved by my own adrenaline spike that helps me shake off the pain enough to yank you back forwards, grab that neck of yours again, but this time pull it down so I can use my legs to wrench you sideways and roll you to your back. And even though your leg guard goes up around my waist just as lightning fast, I still manage to clock you with right and left fists before your legs yank me back. “Cris told me all about his lunar spar. You just went there for a fuck fest and left me at home.”

08:46 Andre_Jordan: Now I taste blood in my mouth as my teeth go red, and as I yank you back with my legs I slam a big right cross to your chin, knocking you sideways, then use my legs to wrench you in the same direction to roll you. You go with the roll and we end up scrambling apart so we don’t end up in each other’s half-guards. I pop up to my feet first and as you pop I lace my hands behind your neck and yank your chin down hard to your sternum to control your upper body, then shove you back into one of the padded walls and start slugging away at your solid core with sharp right and left knees. “We are sex fighters; we fuck dudes for a living. You were the one I loved and you just threw it all away with your fucking pride!”

08:46 Anderson_Jones: Ugh Ugh Ugh I feel Dre’s knees dig viciously into my gut and knock some serious wind from my lungs, but muscle memory kicks in and I use my hands to slam upwards on your elbow, popping your hands from my neck so I can stand upright. I immediately shove you backwards palms to your chest to create enough space between us, then I kick off the padded wall hard with my right foot and send a solid right cross cracking into your chin. You stagger back and I jump a knee punch to your solar plexus, knocking you backwards more. As the knee bends you inward, I tackle you to the ground trying to mount you, but your damn jiu jitsu training kicks in and up goes your leg guard to capture my hips and torso, but it also roll your ass up as my cock slides in your crack looking for your hole. I slam two more really tough right and left fists into your face, and as blood gushes from your nose I slam my cock deep inside your ass and start thrusting. “If you really loved me you would never have left me, but now I’m gonna fuck you with pride!”

08:47 Christiano_Braga: Elijah and I continue playing the traditional drums and sending a soothing rhythm flowing out for the assembled brothers who all show faces full of anxious fear now fully caught up in the intimate drama playing out before them.

08:47 Andre_Jordan: You caught me flat footed with the knee punch and rang my bell hard enough I am dazed while you begin aggressively fucking me, but I manage to get my wits about me in time to use my legs to yank you backwards. When I feel your cock slide out of my ass I yank you forward, reach up and grab your right shoulder with my left hand to hold you firm, then send two fast straight punches directly into your nose, blood spurting from it all over both of our chests and abs. Then climb my legs up your back, grab your right hand and drag it across your neck, then cinch in a fig-4 triangle choke on your head, your own arm digging into your windpipe for the choke. As your head hangs above my cock throbbing on my abs, I wrench you sideways and roll you onto your back in a fig-4 mount triangle, then slam two big fists into your head and face, then watch your eyes roll into the back of your head, totally dazed. I unlock my legs, roll you to your belly, scramble onto your back and slam my dick all the way to your prostate. I nelson you as my chest flexes into your sweaty, rippling back and I start hump fucking your big muscled ass. “Aww yeah, lover, you won’t be so fucking prideful when I shoot my load in you!”

08:48 Anderson_Jones: Ughhhhhh I feel your muscle heavy body on top of me fucking my ass and my alarm spikes, not knowing how close you are to seeding me. I dig deep and buck up hard and fast with both hands from push up position, rip one of your Nelsoning arms from my neck, catch it at the elbow, and roll you off me and out of my ass. We both stagger up onto rubber legs, eyes blacked, noses and mouths bleeding, and raise our fist guards. “You know I had no one but you, and you still left me!” I scream, sending a left jab to your kidney and a right jab to the side of your head.

08:48 Andre_Jordan: You tag me with both the kidney punch and the side jab to my head as I simultaneously tag you with a left jab to your kidney and a right cross to your chin, screaming back “Mother fucker, I asked you to marry me before I left and you said No!” We both stagger back from well connected fists, hands going reflexively down to our bruised ribs.

08:48 Anderson_Jones: “I fucking hate you!” I scream at you and feel the damage done.

08:49 Andre_Jordan: “I fucking hate YOU!” I scream back and we trade surprised looks before wading back into each other with another barrage of fists. I smash you straight in the nose and send a side jab to your head.

08:49 Anderson_Jones: Even as I get knocked sideways by your jab to my head, I send my own jab to your head and another fist to your kidney. We separate, both really hurting with serious exhaustion setting in, but growl and wade right back in for more with flagging fist guards. I slam a right cross into your eye and a heavy fist into your ribs. “I fucking hate you,” say again but weakly.

08:49 Andre_Jordan: “I fucking hate you too,” I croak back as I stagger into you and send a left jab to your ribs and and a right jab hard again to the side of your head. We both bend over holding our ribs and feel that brain fog when your legs go strictly rubber.

08:49 Mike_Yousef: “Damn, they look like they are about to really damage each other, should we stop this?”

08:50 Remy_Cooper: “Naw Mike, I don’t think they have much left in them. Plus, did you hear that sad tone in Anders voice?”

08:50 Mike_Yousef: “Yeah man, Dre too.”

08:50 Anderson_Jones: I feign a round house right but duck and surge into you, one knee at your side for a single leg takedown, dropping you on your ass. I am too hurt to move fast and as I scramble up your body for a mount attempt you wrap your big arms around me and roll us to our sides where we just throw side jabs into each other lats and heads, getting weaker with each punch.

08:51 Andre_Jordan: Our battered and bruised bodies radiate heat as we roll over and over on the mat, punching each other in the head and lats as hard as we can, but we know no one is gonna win this fight. Both frustrated and hurt, we continue to hurl curses and more fists at each other until we have nothing left and we lay sweat soaked, wrapped up in each other's arms and legs.

08:51 Anderson_Jones: Drained of all energy, we lay together drained of our rage as well, listening silently to the sound of the drums. Minutes go by and there is nothing on this 5 story Manhattan rooftop for us but the drums wafting in the wind around us. Suddenly I emotionally break, feeling tears in my eyes. “I miss your Mom man, Gloria was the only parent I ever had.”

08:51 Andre_Jordan: “I fucking still hate your parents for kicking you into the streets,” I say with tears in my eyes too.

08:51 Anderson_Jones: “Your Mom took me in though like I was her own.”
08:52 Andre_Jordan: I wrap my weak arms even tighter around you. “She loved you with all her cancer ridden heart, AJ, right up until the end. She said, ``Tell your brother I will love him from heaven.”

08:52 Anderson_Jones: “Aww man, fuck. I can’t believe I didn’t go to her funeral,” I cry, tears running down my face now as I hold tighter to you.

08:52 Andre_Jordan: “We can go visit her together, brother,” I say crying now too.

08:52 Anderson_Jones: “You came back from Brazil for me?”

08:53 Andre_Jordan: “Of course man. I only went there so I could return and teach you everything I learned. We dreamed of being champions together. Why didn’t you tell me Cris offered you the lunar spar first and you turned it down?”

08:53 Anderson_Jones: “I was afraid you would be jealous and leave me, and I would be alone again.”

08:53 Andre_Jordan: “Nigga, why do you think I asked you to marry me?”

08:53 Anderson_Jones: “ I know man, I was just suddenly so jealous and afraid, and you know that just ain’t my style.”

08:53 Andre_Jordan: “Yeah, your style is to leave town and never talk to me again” I say laughing gently. “Wasn’t my style to cry my broken heart out to big brother Rafa.”

08:54 Anderson_Jones: “Fuck man.”

08:54 Andre_Jordan: “I know man.” We lay there quietly for a few minutes just holding each other. “I’m sorry I hurt you AJ, swear to God I never meant to.”

08:54 Anderson_Jones: “I’m sorry to Dre, I guess I am just an asshole like my Pops.”

08:54 Andre_Jordan: “Naw man. I was the asshole. I should have never gone to Brazil.”

08:54 Anderson_Jones: “You think we can be brothers again?”

08:55 Andre_Jordan: “I would love that man. Can you ever forgive me?”

08:55 Anderson_Jones: “Already done man. I love you bro.”

08:55 Andre_Jordan: “I fucking love you too, bro.”

08:55 Anderson_Jones: We just hold each other and emit this strange combination of laughter and sobbing until it starts to hurt our bruised ribs. “Fuck Dre, I don’t know if I can get off the ground. You fucked me up,” I laugh again until my ribs stop me.

08:56 Andre_Jordan: “Yeah, me neither, you fucked me up too and we did it in front of everyone we know.” We both finally lift our heads to look around and everyone is gone. We hadn’t even noticed the drumming had stopped. “Fuck, we may be stuck here.”

08:56 Anderson_Jones: “I think I see Mike and Remy sitting over at the patio. Should I call for them?”

08:56 Andre_Jordan: “Hell yeah. Hey Rems, a little help please?” They were sitting there quietly at a respectful distance, but now get up and walk over to us.

08:56 Remy_Cooper: “You two sorry mother fuckers ready to wrap this up?”

08:57 Andre_Jordan: “Yeah man, but we need some help getting inside.”

08:57 Mike_Yousef: “I don’t know Remy, you think we should help these two fools out?”

08:57 Remy_Cooper: “Yeah, cus you know, they might bleed to death up here. Then the cops will come and it will be a thing.”

08:57 Mike_Yousef: “I can see the cover of the Post now: Two big dumb black men beat each other to death on Manhattan high rise. Friends of the deceased say it was out of love.”

08:58 Anderson_Jones: “I don’t suppose this joke is going anywhere soon.”

08:58 Remy_Cooper: Mike and I look at each other and grin, then say in unison, “Nope.”

08:58 Andre_Jordan: ***Special thanks to Christiano Braga and Rafael Figueroa for the story outline loosely based on real life events.

Published: 2022-05-13, viewed 97 times.