HELP ME: Doing a presentation at Uni on boxers and courage. Good examples?

[johnle43]

If you want to highlight different types of courage you should mention someone like Calerdon.

He has 0 power, gets into the ring every night knowing he can't hurt the other guy - that's balls right there.

haha... nothing really constructive to add other than this was funny as ****!

ok two things i might add was chavez/taylor 1? getting out boxed chavez finds a way to close the show in the final seconds. takes courage to stay with it til the final bell?

or maybe you mean behind the scenes stuff? perhaps buster douglas defeating iron mike 20 days after his mothers passing?

[Rockin']

A fighter displays tremendous amounts of courage just getting gloved and into the ring. No matter how good one fighter may be he knows deep in his soul that anything can happen and that the ring is an extremely hostile and dangerous place.

We've all seen the purple bulbous swelling above, below and even encompassing the eye. We've all seen the horrendous cuts as we watched the individual droplets of blood splashed acrossed the canvas. The man left laying unconscious, his eyes are open as he tries to raise his head from the canvas. His eyes remain transfixed on some distant point deep with in his mind. He may not know who or where he is, but he is a fighter and of all things he knows that he needs to get up. He may not even know why he needs to get up, he just knows that he has too and he will try. A cracked nose, rib, knuckle or two.


Courage is answering the opening bell to be caught with a solid shot that leaves your senses in disarray. Courage is forging through, courage is wanting to hit him 2 times for every time that he hits you. Courage is doing whatever it takes to get it back and then when you have it back you take more, coninuing to dish out the punishment. Courage is knowing that all of this could happen to you in a bout yet you have to be there, in the trenches fighting for your life. Courage is putting it all on the line at the sound of a bell or a command of a referee.

My hats off to anybody who has stepped up to compete in the sanctioned ring to test themselves. Courage is stepping up to take that test with the unkown near future time and time again..........Rockin'

[Rockin']

ok two things i might add was chavez/taylor 1? getting out boxed chavez finds a way to close the show in the final seconds. takes courage to stay with it til the final bell?

Taylor showed a ton more courage just rising to his feet after the beating he was taking..........Rockin'

[Mayweather41-0]

Either one of these will do

[Hous]

It must take Floyd Maywether a lot of courage to show his face around after ducking all them fighters. jk