Bastion Boxing Academy

Bastion Boxing Academy is a location featured in The Oppressed Wrestler localized in Sharmont

## History

### Foundation

Bastion Boxing Academy is founded by a man named Bruce Astin, a 32-year-old Morningside New York-based boxer, in 1964. He noticed that the boxing scene in Sharmont was lacking and there were no boxing gyms around in the neighboring city he moved to, despite there being a  boxing company there.

### True Bastion of Boxing

He took in a large batch of 30 students, one of them being Donald  McCarthy who were once denied from entering Endergy Promotions, and trained them until they met the requirements. It took them a maximum of 3 to 4 years for all of the 30 students to enter Endergy and become the best versions of themselves. Eventually, more and more aspiring and amateur boxers enrolled, some even being relatives of the original thirty students, like the son of Donald McCarthy, Duncan McCarthy who became his favorite student and one of the greatest boxers of all time in Endergy where he would have an overall ratio of 43 wins to 4 losses. The 70s and 80s were the flourishing golden age of Bastion Boxing Academy.

### The New Owner and The Egomaniac

1991 marked the beginning of Astin's exhaustion where he would retire from coaching at the age of 59. He put his most honorable former student, Duncan McCarthy, in charge of the Bastion Boxing Academy to which the latter agreed. Duncan decided to step down from boxing and decided to become a trainer and manager at Bastion Boxing Academy as well as its current owner, he felt that the sport became way too easy anyway and wanted to pass the information he was taught to another generation of fighters. His first student was Saichi Otoko, he considered him to be one of his greatest students. In mid-1992, Otoko was signed to be part of Endergy Promotions, and eventually, he became very famous to the point where it got into his head. He became egotistical and doesn't care about the people who helped him get to where he arrived along the way, especially his coach. His good reputation plummeted and he became one of the most hated boxers in all of the industry.

### The Oppressed Wrestler

In 1993, a  mysterious masked man who claimed to be named "John Arbuckle", McCarthy was assigned to be his coach but the latter didn't really help him because "Mr. Arbuckle" had already retained all of the information he needed. He instantly went to the final step of training which is sparring with other students or experienced boxers, to which Yurin won all of them. He became mainstream on the news, TV, and any form of media where he would be dubbed "The Masked Menace". In late May of the same year, Yurin would be accepted to Endergy Promotions and would be booked to fight Saichi Otoko, the match was in the latter's favor but when he unmasked Yurin, a wave of bad karma hit him back, Yurin's fire-breathing power. Everyone was relieved that this happened since no one liked him and thought that he deserved it. He was hospitalized for years.

### Unfortunate Decline to Death

With the creation of more and more boxing academies in the Sharmont area in the 2010s, people are seeing Bastion as increasingly redundant and outdated. It was not until 2018 that Bruce Astin dies of Parkinson's Disease, and the academy died along with him, thus undergoing a full system shutdown and closing its doors for the foreseeable future.

## Description

### Appearance

The appearance of both the interior and exterior of Bastion is nothing to write home about. It always looked like it was about to collapse any second, considering the fact that it used to be a flimsy warehouse.

### Reputation

Despite its ugly appearance, its reputation wasn't. It was always considered to be a great place to quickly and efficiently learn boxing. The coaches were also found to be benevolent.

## Trivia

* The academy was jokingly named "The Ticket to Endergy" at its peak
* The academy's building still stands despite it being inhabited and unused for years
* Bruce Astin's funeral was held at the academy to fully honor him
* Despite it being running to the ground, McCarthy says that "the academy did what it set out to do", meaning that it inspired other people to create boxing gyms and helped boxers get into Endergy and make them great at the sport.