When aliens assume human form to fight for entertainment, things don’t always go as planned.
The human capacity for touch, taste, and feeling goes beyond anything the bugs have. The best fighter of a generation learns that he can be greater than himself when in the ring for the brief time of the bouts. He lives his life for those slices of time, when he can be more, where’s found someone who makes him want to be a better man.
As one reviewer said, this is a love song written to someone special within the violence of fights to the death. The author uses the external manifestation of combat as a visual for one man’s internal struggle.