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It’s surprising how few people have actually been to a live boxing match and sat ringside. The experience is just so totally different from the sanitized hermitically sealed TV version.
It’s an eye opener for a fan just much as it can be an eye closer for the fighter. You can almost feel the punches impacting, while a reporter’s notebook can be sprayed and splashed by blood, sweat and tears.
It gives you a much deeper humbler appreciation of fighters’ red badge of courage, and the absolutely vital job a referee does.
The fighter’s corner has an extremely important part to play, and so does the ringside doctor. But it’s the referee, who’s the third person singular inside the ropes and the main responsibility must always lie with him.
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It’s an eye opener for a fan just much as it can be an eye closer for the fighter. You can almost feel the punches impacting, while a reporter’s notebook can be sprayed and splashed by blood, sweat and tears.
It gives you a much deeper humbler appreciation of fighters’ red badge of courage, and the absolutely vital job a referee does.
The fighter’s corner has an extremely important part to play, and so does the ringside doctor. But it’s the referee, who’s the third person singular inside the ropes and the main responsibility must always lie with him.
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