Published on 2022/09/14
TIME PUTS EACH OF US IN OUR PLACE
Professional boxer Tayden Beltran steps into the ring to take on the guy who used to bully him in high school.
“For the past few months, this man has been texting me saying he would kill me in the ring and beat me to death.
We went to high school together. He was a few years ahead of me. He would say homophobic slurs at me and he would make fun of me for being in the special education (autism) program with other students.
When we're young we do silly things, but he has continued to call me things like "retard" on Instagram.
According to what he told me, he was signed to the Bare Knuckle fighting championship, so he insisted that we would box without headgear. Believing what he told me, I accepted."
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