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He never saw it coming.
Everyone else saw it for him.
There is always that moment of shock when a favored fighter goes down at the end of a genuine bomb. A brief freeze in time before shock turns to the thrill of a possible finish. Boxing fans know it when they see it, a fighter genuinely ready to go.
There is no other moment like it anywhere but combat sports. Team sports end when the clock runs out. Tennis ends when the requisite points are scored. Fight can end any time, and no one ever really knows when that will be.
Almost no one was picking Jhonny Gonzalez to resurrect his career, again, with a mammoth knockout. It was the sort of moment that makes this, inside its playing field, still the greatest sport of them all. [Click Here To Read More]
Everyone else saw it for him.
There is always that moment of shock when a favored fighter goes down at the end of a genuine bomb. A brief freeze in time before shock turns to the thrill of a possible finish. Boxing fans know it when they see it, a fighter genuinely ready to go.
There is no other moment like it anywhere but combat sports. Team sports end when the clock runs out. Tennis ends when the requisite points are scored. Fight can end any time, and no one ever really knows when that will be.
Almost no one was picking Jhonny Gonzalez to resurrect his career, again, with a mammoth knockout. It was the sort of moment that makes this, inside its playing field, still the greatest sport of them all. [Click Here To Read More]
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