Street thugs for street fights. Do not be fooled by the ring.
MC is not pitted against the top fighters, MC is actually fighting his pals.
This game is not toppeling the status qwo: boss wolf and his crush win prom king and queen,
MC is still some pocket thrill seeker some babes like to get throbbed by.
MC gets mileage and he is hurt and everyone sees him hurt.
The fight in the street early on is evidence of that.
It always makes me laugh that fighting is basically the backstory of this game and the dev chose this scrawny little fucker as an MC.
I know a "scrawny little fucker" in real life half my size who can kick the living shit out of you! Never seen anyone punch as fast and well as he can, so don't judge my size or you would lose against him.
Lol that's one hell of an assumption, but I've met small guys that could do the same thing. Difference is, they're trained and extremely fit. The MC is a skinny dude with zero muscles that looks like he spends all day on his PC.
You need not be some MMA master or health nut for tough bone structure or heavy fists.
Just throwing punches back at people angry at you, being motivated means a lot.
MC is motivated to be somebody, as in be noticed by girls, so he will fight for the rep.
Even this latest season of game or thrones, the dance of ice and fire, has a scrawny kid run a jerk
through with his wee sword. Then we see in the fight of dragons, the decades old behemoth eats the
months/year old lil dragon, because primordial grit does matter little when going against sheer muscle and size.