Hank left the club feeling a rush of anxiety, having just verbalized for the first time his fear about losing his whole career in boxing. He had loved boxing since he was a young teenager who had just lost his father and who needed a family, so to speak, of people who supported him and appreciated him, something his mother was not doing at all. Barney did express appreciation to his big brother, but that had not been helping Hank, because Barney appreciated Hank for what he was doing for him, not because of who Hank was as a person. In the Club and especially in Bubba Dixon, Hank found what he needed.
Now Hank still had the support he needed from Bubba and his inner circle of friends, but the rest of the world was on the verge of condemning him and wanting his head, as that fairy tale abo
