Worldbuilding kinda falling here for me. Why wasnt there wrestling first, the most ancient of sports, why striking, and with smaller ounce gloves too, why bother with gloves when its to the death in some underground race war. Of all the sports boxing? And not even modified rules like one knockout and its done considering a whole league was formed for a while until complications arose, even then i think out of all combat sports boxing (specifically muay thai) has the highest mortality rate among professional athletes, no shit people are gonna die in the ring. Why tf did a whole organization choose to make a league with the same rules that dont end after 1 KO or even modifying them after seeing what happened?