Making Weight

A Fiction

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“Johnny, you know how much I respect you. You have been my manager for fifteen years. But hell, what you are asking me to do is crazy.”

“Look champ.”

The moment I heard that word champ, I interrupted the Tulip immediately. “Don’t call me champ. I ain’t no champ.”

“Jay, you are a champ to me. You are my best boy. And we are so close to our goal…