"Those days were hard. It was a hard life. It was hard being me. I struggled to balance the glamour, glory, and girls with my strenuous swimming lessons twice a week. Swim, sleep, party, repeat. I learned a lot through those long, tough weeks. I don't have enough fingers and toes to count the amount of times I threw up in the pool during training after a night out. I still struggle to come to small dumpy towns like this to speak because I got used to big cities and pint house sweets. It has been a tough transition but its nice to educate people like you all who don't know too much. I enjoy coming to towns like Pointe Place and seeing how the simple life is lived sometimes. It's cool."
"Are you freaking kidding me?" Tyson screamed to himself in his head. "Who on God's green earth does this guy think he is?" Tyson looked around to see heads shaking, mouthes gaping, and faces reddening. This guy was going to get it.
"Whoaaaaaa fella what are you doing," the olympian swimmer said after being grabbed by the collar and pinned against a fence on his way out of the Pointe Place Library.
"I don't care how many useless gold medals you won or how fast you can swim...you will never come into my town and compare your privileged lifestyle to our blue collar ways and disrespect us."
"Okay. I see what this is about. You are jealous because you are a nobody guy from a nowhere town and I come in to talk about my success. Yeah I'm better than you. Thats life. Get over it," Lochte said trying to wiggle out of Tyson's strong grip.
"Im not jealous. Just protective," Tyson said, raring back.
What happened next was a flash of quick hands from Tyson and slow reflexes by Lochte. The fight didn't last long after a left jab then right swinging haymaker combo to Lochte's rather large nose. The people of Pointe Place gathered to see Tyson stand over Lochte in triumph. A slow clap from the back of the crowd grew into a full out applause. A police officer across the street pretended to not notice the crowd.
"Don't ever disrespect Pointe Place," Tyson said.
