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By Cliff Rold - While we recall fights in total, it is often easy to forget the form. A fight can end at any moment but, if it does not, it happens in increments.
Three-minute increments.
180-second increments.
In any one of those seconds, a single punch can change everything. Any ten of those seconds spent on the deck can spell the end. When a fighter has made it through eleven of those hellish blocks of time, fairly certain they are ahead, the final frame arrives. The finish line is close and yet so far.
This year’s round of the year came at the end of an epic Welterweight encounter. The man who came into the ring with the title was seeking redemption after what should have been his best night turned out to be his worst. Hurt early, and then again, and again, on the night, he’d still managed to win enough rounds to appear ahead in the bout. He had only to make it three more minutes against a brick handed challenger who went from underdog to rabid dog on March 16th, the most important night of his life. [Click Here To Read More]
Three-minute increments.
180-second increments.
In any one of those seconds, a single punch can change everything. Any ten of those seconds spent on the deck can spell the end. When a fighter has made it through eleven of those hellish blocks of time, fairly certain they are ahead, the final frame arrives. The finish line is close and yet so far.
This year’s round of the year came at the end of an epic Welterweight encounter. The man who came into the ring with the title was seeking redemption after what should have been his best night turned out to be his worst. Hurt early, and then again, and again, on the night, he’d still managed to win enough rounds to appear ahead in the bout. He had only to make it three more minutes against a brick handed challenger who went from underdog to rabid dog on March 16th, the most important night of his life. [Click Here To Read More]
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