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John Arthur

Era - 1970s / 2000s - Underground Fighting / Boxing

Few people have a life story that could equal that of John "Pops" Arthur. Known foremost to the public as the trainer who managed to train an overweight James Toney back into fighting shape during his heavyweight days, Arthur had a backstory so astounding that a feature film based on it would have to be toned down to suspend the audience's disbelief.

Born in Mississippi, Arthur's family moved to Chicago. There, a young Arthur fought on a regular basis, but an incident involving a thwarted mugging would change his life. Saved by a man who worked with his family, Arthur asked to learn how to fight from him, and by doing so, entered into the world of mob affiliated underground no holds barred prizefighting.

Trained to punch and kick like a machine, to use brutal tactics, and competing in wrestling and football, Arthur became a terribly efficient fighter in bare knuckle sudden death fights. Biting, gouging, groin strikes, stomps to the neck were all allowed, and Arthur thrived in the international competitons.

From there, he would become a police officer in a racist town in Georgia, an undercover agent for the FBI where he robbed drug dealers and infiltrated their organizations, a security guard for Mr. T and Burt Reynolds and then went into training boxers later on. A more incredible series of events could hardly be invented.

(To read a much more in-depth account of Arthur's life story, check out the Men's Journal article, The Legend of John Arthur, the Toughest Man in America by Stayton Bonner, the main source for this edit)

As with all my edits, full AI-Moveset-Parameters are set.

Attire:
1. Red gi pants and black driving gloves
2. White shirt, sunglasses and khaki pants
3. Dark blue shirt, windsuit pants and blue boxing gloves
3. Blue tracksuit and black pants