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by David P. Greisman - A great fight is like falling in love – sometimes you just know.
Sometimes the chemistry just promises that a collision will lead to combustion, combining into an explosion, an exhibition of drama and action.
Those are two crucial elements. Consistent action, chemistry that leads to physics, every action leading to an equal and opposite reaction. One fighter’s flurry of punches ends and another returns fire with a combination of his own. The pattern continues, pugilistic acceleration, objects remaining in motion until an external force brings them to a stop, be it due to time running out or from gravity kicking in.
That action builds drama, a story unfolding, left hooks building to plot twists, shifts in momentum – warriors confronted with mortality, heroes contending with adversity. Chemistry and physics are maintained by biology. Heart and guts, brains and balls.
Those two elements and those three sciences form the essence of the sweetest of the Sweet Science – a Fight of the Year.
Sometimes you just know.
Juan Manuel Marquez is a boxer-puncher who trades with technique, though without being too tactical. He is a master at sizing up the action and adjusting midway through a fight, tweaking his strategy and changing his artillery.
Juan Diaz can be his nickname, a Baby Bull who comes out of the gate with a head of steam, head-down, keeping his opponent in his sights and getting to him with pressure. Diaz can also be his day-job, a student who looks at what he has in front of him from a distance before breaking his opponent down and bringing the fight to its conclusion. [details]
Sometimes the chemistry just promises that a collision will lead to combustion, combining into an explosion, an exhibition of drama and action.
Those are two crucial elements. Consistent action, chemistry that leads to physics, every action leading to an equal and opposite reaction. One fighter’s flurry of punches ends and another returns fire with a combination of his own. The pattern continues, pugilistic acceleration, objects remaining in motion until an external force brings them to a stop, be it due to time running out or from gravity kicking in.
That action builds drama, a story unfolding, left hooks building to plot twists, shifts in momentum – warriors confronted with mortality, heroes contending with adversity. Chemistry and physics are maintained by biology. Heart and guts, brains and balls.
Those two elements and those three sciences form the essence of the sweetest of the Sweet Science – a Fight of the Year.
Sometimes you just know.
Juan Manuel Marquez is a boxer-puncher who trades with technique, though without being too tactical. He is a master at sizing up the action and adjusting midway through a fight, tweaking his strategy and changing his artillery.
Juan Diaz can be his nickname, a Baby Bull who comes out of the gate with a head of steam, head-down, keeping his opponent in his sights and getting to him with pressure. Diaz can also be his day-job, a student who looks at what he has in front of him from a distance before breaking his opponent down and bringing the fight to its conclusion. [details]
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