Chris Walker has his final boxing bout tomorrow. The bout is with Mathew Hatton who has an incredible record of 18/2 and out of his eighteen wins he knocked out 17 opponents. Chris knew for sure that he would lose the bout and had to settle for silver in the tournament. But his only feverish wish was that he might be spared of a knock out. A defeat by knock-out would bring utter shame and disgrace for him among the locale in his own town where the bout is to be held. His coach and trainer good old Edward Brown also skeptic about the knock-out machine, sparing Chris from a quick fall. The pattern is always that Mathew would go for a knock out in the second round. Edward Brown knew that Mathew, a hard core professional could not be influenced with any deal. He was worried about Chris Walker’s career and his inability to come up with a way to help him out of this embarrassing situation.

On the day of the bout, Edward told Chris “Before the start of the second round, I’ll call you out and say something, you just answer me “Yes buddy,” irrespective, whether it has any meaning or what?” The already worried Christ nodded his head.

The first round was devastating and Mathew was playing with Chris like a cat teasing a mouse. Before the second round, when the panic-struck Chris got up to meet Mathew again, Coach Edward called Chris aloud and said “Hey, Bill, take care and avoid getting hurt”. As agreed, Chris replied “Yes, buddy”. The second round started and surprisingly the bout was like a training session and Mathew was avoiding all his opportunities to knock Chris down. He was jabbing Chris right, left and just getting points. The third and final round was still smoother and ended with Mathew getting a 5–0 nod for a win from the judges.

The bout was a mystery and surprise for everyone including Chris. Why the hell did Mathew spare a knock out for Chris? In the evening the puzzled Chris asked his coach Edward about it. He said, “Well, I made a little research on Mathew. It seems that he has lost his lovely son last year to leukemia. I had also managed to get a small video clipping where Mathew trains his 10 year old son and he calls him ‘Bill’. It is a simple psychology that I relied upon for guessing that he may not knock out someone who is called by his son’s name Bill. At the least possibility, I guessed some hard punches on the way, but nope, it seems he loved his son Bill a lot too much.”