Summary
New Orleans, dusk-heavy and gasping with humidity, becomes a boxing-ring cosmos where Kid Roberts—part pugilist, part pawn—is hog-tied in a clapboard flophouse, his wrists lashed to destiny by unseen wire-pullers who stink of cigar resin and crooked odds. While a sham undercard brawl—fists, chairs, and spit flying like Mardi Gras confetti—distracts the rabble, Roberts gnaws through rope and myth alike, bursting into the auditorium with the feral grace of a bayou panther. The syndicate’s ace: kill the lights mid-second stanza, let the challenger rabbit-punch him into oblivion. Instead, the Kid, drunk on rage and redemption, detonates a right hook so incandescent that his opponent arcs over the ropes like a dying star, collapsing the whole grafted scheme in one cathartic round.
Synopsis
In New Orleans, Kid Roberts is lured to a rooming house just before the fight, where he is bound hand a foot, and it looks as though all bets would be forfeited. A free-for-all fight is staged as a preliminary, and while this is going on Kid Roberts gains his freedom and arrives in time for the feature event. At a given signal the lights of the hall were to be turned off, and this have his adversary a chance to knock the Kid out, in the second round. The Kid is mad clear through, however, and knocks his man through the ropes in the first round and wins the fight.
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