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If the opponent wanted a fist fight, then this whole floating platform thing shouldn't be a problem. The fighters would meet in the center and keep it there if both had the balls to scrap correctly. Though Tres never thought it was smart to try to beat him at his own game, he knew the thought was cocky but Tres found it best to be overconfident than under.

The gate to Tres's pin came open. Tres would leap over the moat of water and land on the platform. He would time the jump so that he and his opponent met on the opposite ends at the same time to act as each others counterbalance upon the shifty platform. Tres would move towards the center at the same speed as the opponent but the difference was Tres's stance and footwork.

Tres would be in the traditional boxer's or kickboxers stance. There was nothing fancy or special about the way Tres fought. Tres was an orthodox fighter meaning he was left foot forward. Tres would keep his chin down and his hands up in front of his face. Tres's footwork was a quick and rapid shuffle. His lead foot would slide forward and his rear would follow in the same direction. He would never cross nor touch his feet, making sure to keep balanced at all times.

Tres would near the opponent in the center of the ring and upon doing so he would throw the jab (left hand) towards the opponents right eye while sliding his left foot forward. Tres had a long arm reach, so he wasn't required to get too close. For now he would stay on the outside.

WHAM!

The opponent reacted by bringing his guard up and parrying Tres's jab with his left hand to Tres's left side. The Jab was a quick attack that had little body momentum behind it. This allowed it to be recovered quickly despite hard parries and immediately upon being knocked off course the left hand would recover to his guard. Tres's stance was balanced and he could recover his left hand without having been knocked off balance with the parry who's target had little momentum behind it anyway.

Though Tres would not stop, he was working on a boxing combination.

Simultaneously with the connecting of the parry and the recovery of the left hand, Tres would throw a big right hook at the left side of the opponents face while sliding his right foot forward to complete the half step that was made behind the facade of the jab (in the previous post the jab was made with a forward movement of the left foot). This would put Tres in range for the right hook.

The right hook would be hard for the opponent to defend against because his left hand was in the motion of parrying. Also the right hook would come at the left side of the opponents face, putting it out of range to be easily blocked by the opponents right hand.

The counter clockwise twist of the body that came with the right hook would both increase the power of the right hook and increase the recovery time of the left hand. The right hook would be made with an open palm and if the punch landed Tres would use his large hands to grab on to the opponents skull. The gloves of Tres's hands had hard rough metal plates on them, increasing the power of the hooks impact.

The opponent probably would have done better by moving out of range before he began to speak. Now that the opponent had chosen to speak it may make it a bit more difficult to move out of the way. As Tres's hand cam close to the opponents face, the temperature seemed to increase slightly.

Tres was less worried about that though and more about winning this fight.

RUN! RUN AS FAR AS YOU CAN! BUT YOU CANNOT ESCAPE!

The author had no idea what the opponent had just done, but from what he had gathered the last attempt had little chance of working, however, the author cared more about having a good fight than winning so it would be assumed that due to the opponents superhuman capabilities. Something had happened and he narrowly escaped.

However, Tres just wasn't going to let the opponent go without a scratch. The opponent in his post would retract his legs back under his body after the kick just before he would hit the ground. The opponent would somehow at the same time as falling backwards due to the outwards kick, duck his head lower (towards Tres from his perception) and forward. There would be a slight problem with this. Tres's right hand was still on the opponents face pushing down slightly to the left. The movement of his head, and the rest of his upperbody, would therefor be blocked.

The opponents legs after recovering from kicking out would pull back in, assuming with his knee's going to his chest. By kicking out he would push forward in the direction of his head and upperbody movement to perform a sort of roll. As said in the previous paragraph, this movement would be blocked now, also by the impact of Tres's left fist crashing into his face.

So still regardless of the opponents split second movement his head would hit the ground with a loud crack. The resistance that the opponent put into it, in order to roll away would propel Tres's body up and over him despite failing the roll all together. Tres would land some distance away gracefully through the use of great acrobatics in his stance. The arena would wobble a bit but no real trouble yet though. Tres would begin to move forward towards the opponent immediately upon landing with proper footwork, not waiting for him to get up.

The reason the author thought that the flip wouldn't work anyway, was because to complete a low to ground roll during the milliseconds it would take for there bodies to hit the ground was stretching it a lot. There was a possibility however that the opponent was attempting to turn to Tres's right and roll away in that direction (your post was confusing on which direction exactly you were going forward, to the right (your left), or maybe backwards, all three would be impossible), ala stop, drop, and roll. In such case, the right hand would still obstruct that direction of movement and the pulling in of the legs would make this harder.

So yeah...No.

Tres would immediately perform what was known in the martial arts as a stop hit. The stop hit was a technique that struck while the opponent was telegraphing an attack. The opponent was making text book martial arts mistakes that would identify him as being way out of Tres's league.

The opponents mistake was that he telegraphed his attack by performing one movement and then attacking. If you watched how Tres attacked, he never telegraphed his moves or gave any clue about when he would strike...he would just strike.

Just like this,

To perform the stop hit, immediately as the opponent chambered his arm, Tres would throw a jab. The jab would come towards the opponents right eye so that it would come in at an angle that would be difficult to defend with with the opponents left hand. The jab would snap out in a single motion that was preceded by none other.

In the sudden explosive punch, Tres would step forward with his left foot, putting its position somewhere in front of the opponents right foot. The jab would startle the opponent as much as it would hurt due to the snapping power of the attack fortified by the opponents metal covered fist.

Tres's right hand would be up in front of his jaw in a boxers guard however, the forearm of the right arm would be in front of his sternum. The opponents own attack would be thrown after the jab since the jab was thrown during the chamber. The opponents right handed punch would collide harmlessly with his right forearm.

Tres however knew the opponent had superhuman reflexes and was watching for that left hand to defend against the jab.

What the ********?

Tres's forearms were covered in Bracers created by his mother, Athena Ecstuffuan. Athena was not only a great martial artist but she was also a powerful sorcerer. Athena with the help of Sieg Ecstuffuan constructed a set of bracers for there son that would help him in the defense against the supernatural. These bracers were unseen beneath Tres's sleeved leather jacket, but they were most certainly there and they were fashioned to give powerful resistance against supernatural attacks.

So yeah, NO U.

So now that it was shown that the opponent was using powers, Tres was not going to be nice anymore. It was time to start ******** faces. Tres was not going to give him that one step back. Immediatly after landing the jab before the opponent stepped back, Tres would throw the second attack in the combination.

Tres would throw the low right muay thai round house kick to the outside of the opponents left knee. The blow would hit with Tres's greave covered shin. In the kick Tres would turn with his hips and on the balls of his left foot. The kick would be hard to see coming because it would come in at a tight arc that would make the kick faster and more powerful because Tres would bend his left knee to sink his weight into the blow.

The kick was intended to take advantage of the fact that the opponent didn't use proper footwork during the step back and to sweep his feet out from under him. Being swept would ofcourse interrupt his drawing of the dagger. If the opponent was not swept and the blow still landed it had a large chance of breaking even a superhumans leg. Tres was not super human but he was the alpha male of humans, the strongest...and to some who did not know of the limits of man...that was superhuman.

If he did however manage to take out his weapon, Tres would block the blow with the opponents sword with his right forearm and keep his left at the ready. He would then in south paw stance after setting down the kick, who's tighter arc allowed it to recover quickly, step back away from the opponent with his shuffling footwork.

"Hmph."

cling!

The opponent had finally responded correctly. The check was probably the best way to defend against a low kick. Tres would set his foot down after the kick was checked, putting him in south paw stance. Tres would make a shuffle step forwards remaining in south paw stance as his opponent would step forward.

Simultaneously with Tres's step forward he would react to the opponents dual attack of a heat blade stab and a left thrust kick. The blade was red hot obviously and Tres would take note and react accordingly.

Tres would turn his body in a counter clockwise turn so that his chest would face to the left and his right shoulder would be closer to the opponent. Tres's left hand would sweep out to his left to parry the opponents left thrust kick outwards, the palm of the hand would slide along the leg as he got closer. At the same time he would lean back (to the opponents left). Also in the same instance Tres's right hand would reach to grab the opponents left knife holding hand wrist with his right hand.

The movement of Tres's body would cause the inside of the left side jacket to fly open. The sword would pass into the left flap of his jacket and pass into the thick leather material of the jacket. Leather was not a material that was easily melted due to its thickness and though it was not invincible it would hold the sword for long enough to end this fight.

Tres would then suddenly thrust up his left knee a short distance in a way that would cause the hidden machete sheath's on his left leg to release there weapon. The machete would jut up into Tres's left hand grasp. The machete would then move in a stab down through area between the opponents neck and right side clavicle.

With Gaian medicine he would not die, but that was the thing about Tres. He didn't like when people drew weapons because it basically said 'yeah I intend to kill you'.