When we last saw Cherry and Rusty, they were hoping to see Mark compete in the wood chopping contest, but were left wondering why he wasn’t there. Instead, Mark chose to skip his favorite event, only making it back in the nick of time for the boxing competition.

It’s possible Cherry and Rusty are still at that event area, rather than here. But maybe they’ll make it over here in time for Saturday’s strip. It could act as both a cliffhanger for Mark and Cliff and a transition back to a week with Cherry and Rusty.

But for now, we’re here at the start of the tag-team log camp boxing competition. Now, it’s kind of odd, don’t you think, that this competition seems to have been specially put together just for these two teams? Certainly Tad Crass wouldn’t go to the expense of erecting a rink solely for this fight!? Perhaps it is only a special tag-team grudge match inserted into the normal schedule of boxing events. If nothing else, it is clear evidence that I’m spending more time on this than it deserves!

<CLANG!> goes the non-existent bell to start the fight, watched over by the so-far non-existent referee. Cliff goes first, because Mark has to be the one to finish off the opposition. The Grungey Boys start right in with a popular tag-team wrestling trick, as Cliff is maneuvered over by the ropes (I keep wondering how that small cap remains on top of Connor’s Ten-Gallon haircut). Of course, Mark is conveniently someplace else at this exact moment, perhaps looking for Cherry and Rusty or getting sidelined by Tad Crass. It’s all classic wrestling theater. Perhaps we’ll get to see Mark hit Connor across the back with a folding chair. It’s fun! Fun! Fun!