drawing on his long experience and expertise in the profession , and in the wake of this recent successes , mamat knew aral would win.aral always managed to strike in the first round.aral was in top from now;his stamina seemed limitless , his perception almost uncanny.he would swing his head up from below his opponent's face , plunging his horns into the other's neck , pushing , twisting.his opponent's owner would throw up his hands high in abject surrender , mercifully ending his creature's agony , or worse , life.