Suck' R Punch

Suck' R Punch is a book franchise Created by an Indie author Niokee Gumangan under the pen name SaoirseinFAMOUS in 2019. The book was under development for six years since brainstorming in 2013. The book series is described as The King of Fighters mixed with Dancing with the Stars American version.

Blurb
This follows the story of Thomas "Sting" Cruz, a former Overseas Filipino Worker working as a former magazine writer who just came back to his homeland to save his missing younger daughter from an evil mega corporation by joining to a celebrity fighting competition to save her life along with the help of his unlikely friends.

Characters
Some of the characters of the series are based on Dancing with the Stars Celebrities while some of them are fictional.

Setting
Suck' R Punch is set in the alternate universe of the early 21st century under the fictional era called After Crisis. It is also set in a Neo-Victorian and Postmodern flying city of  Metro Capital that's located 10,000 feet in altitude above the Manila Bay and the city is based on and modeled after Chicago, Illinois in between the 19th and mid 20th centuries.

Aside from the main location, other cities were named after fictionalized versions of actual cities found in video games, literature, film, or television shows like Liberty City, District of New York, USA or Los Santos, Greater Los Angeles District, California, USA.

Release
Although the series is still under development, the series has only released one book consisting of a prologue and six chapters long plus a couple of back-up chapter focusing on another character of the series. In addition, there are character-specific plots within the series.

Possible adaptations
In mid-2014, Gumangan was planning to make the franchise to be adapted into a fighting video game, a Netflix Original Series, or comic book series. According to him that the book series would be "a part of the dream projects".

Featured Music
The soundtrack of Suck' R Punch will include songs from the late 1990s and 2000s. For instance is Blue Da Ba Dee by Eifel 65 in Suck' R Punch: SwordPlayer