Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going

Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.

Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.

I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.