"That's like rule one, always keep something up your sleeve."

Rule two, of course, is bluff your ass off, and use the shit out of whatever you do have. Most of what he's got left is based on things he's had done to him in countless fights over the years, a self-taught mishmash that could hardly be called a fighting style.

It's that inexperience that means her bid to yank him off-balance works just fine, but he has the presence of mind to try to grab her back, hopefully before she can finish throwing him completely.