Story idea: Ring City... (Patreon)

Although I guess it's more of a setting idea than a story.

In 1921, boxing promoter Tex Rickard built an 80,000-seat boxing arena in Jersey City, NJ, just to have a place close to New York City to hold Jack Dempsey's championship defense against Georges Carpentier. It lasted for seven years and held several more fights before being torn down in 1927.

The idea of a city growing around a boxing arena has stuck with me, with other combat sports coming in and building there own neighborhoods: The superheavyweights over in Sumotown, the masked fighters in the Lucha District, the bareknuckle specialists living in Red Fist... All interacting with each other and combining to form new variations.

It'd be my version of Frank Miller's Sin City, I guess; a place where a lot of my smaller stories could be set and bounce off each other.