Character Analysis: Brutal Bare Knickle Street Fight

Throughout world history people have enjoyed watching two men compete in hand to hand combat. Professional boxing made its debut here in America around the turn of the 20th century. Unlike boxing, mixed martial arts is a relatively new sport. Both sports are very technical and require their fighters to be in superb condition. Many fighters train all their life to make it big, but few ever get there. Although both sports are immensely popular, one stands alone as the dominant sport. In this paper I 'll prove that the sport of MMA is more technical, more exciting, and much safer than boxing.

The unknown aggressor starts to engage in hand-on-hand combat with the three. The narrator reminds us that Digby, a friend of the narrator’s, has just finished a course in martial arts (that his parents probably helped pay). Digby stands in position with wrists cocked and ankles bent in a ‘swan like’ stance ready for the assailant, but sadly for the young ninja, the narrator tells us, “The greasy character was not impressed. He merely backed off a step, his face like a Toltec mask, and laid Digby out with a single whistling roundhouse blow (Boyle 166) . . .” Tough guys do not get knocked out in one blow, they stand and fight.

Boxing, an official sanctioned sport in the early 20th century, is a sport that is known as one of the most violent and physically demanding sports on the earth. Professional boxers that get paid to fight must be in top shape in order to preform at the highest level. Being a professional boxer is a tough life. Boxers train hard for many months leading up to one fight and either win, lose, knock out the opponent or even get knocked out. The sport has been around for centuries, but has most recently taken off over the last 100 years. It is a multibillion dollar industry with fighters taking home hundreds of thousands of dollars if not even millions of dollars for big matches. In his novel Papa Jack, Roberts tells the story of the famous African American boxer Jack Johnson. He details the boxers rise to fame and fortune and his downward spiral that would soon follow. In Papa Jack, Roberts displays life of a professional boxer through firsthand accounts with events that happened during Johnson’s life and shows how boxing not only influenced his life but also how he influenced the African American community.

Through thick and thin bestfriends are always there for eachother. In the novel The Contender Alfred Brooks struggles to become a contender and reunite with his best friend James. Alfred is a high school dropout and has a job at a grocery store that’s going nowhere. James, his best friend is also a high school dropout but he is messing with the wrong crew. Throughout the story, Alfred begins to train at Donatelli’s gym to become a boxer. Later in the story James, who has been doing drugs, goes to rob the Epstein's store , where Alfred works, and almost gets caught. At the end of the story Alfred finds James in a cave with a cut arm that was caused by the burglary. James asks Alfred for a fix but Alfred, the contender, takes him to the hospital

Tommy Burns was the new heavy weight champion and like Jefferies, he to was denying Johnson a shot at the title. This time Johnson was not having it. He followed Burns for two years from San Francisco to New York from Paris to London, mocking him to fight him. Burns would just state that Johnson was yellow, eventually it was said that King Henry himself called Burns a bluffer, I guess this got to Burns for in the end he agreed to fight Johnson for 30,000 dollars win, lose, or draw. This

Gorn goes to discuss the rules and regulations of boxing, stating; “The two athletes settle on a site for the fight. Strip to their shirts, roll their sleeves up…” (Gorn, pg.37) By adding this information and going to such detail as he does; “At the end of the fight the boxers are bruised, disfigured, and covered with blood, which they spit out, vomit out, or drip from the nose.” allows the reader to get a feel for how violent these fights were but also to allow readers to dive into the fight with their feet first. Gorn goes on to discuss more fights and discusses ‘The Great

In this documentary by Marshall Curry, the audience follows the campaign and everyday reality of Cory Booker. Curry addresses several very interesting aspects of Booker, his opponent, and the harsh reality inside some political campaigns. Wasserman draws similar conclusions and reiterates several main points in his book, The Basics of American Politics. Wasserman states that "Power may involve force (often called coercion), persuasion, or rewards. But its essence is the ability to change another's actions" ( Wasserman 3). He points out that one of the main aspects of politics is having power over a group of individuals and influencing them to do something that they may or may not necessarily want to do. In the case of the 2002 election for mayor in Newark, New Jersey, Sharpe James uses his power to manipulate the people of Newark to believe lies, rumors, and outrageous accusations about Booker. James has been mayor of Newark for 32 years and uses his superior role to threaten or force people to not only vote for him but to

Sixty years ago in a small town in rural Minnesota, there lived a rowdy young man by the name of Jack Smith. He had a very obsolete personality and could easily instigate a fight with anyone he met. By the age of seventeen, Jack had already been expelled from high school due to a myriad of reasons that included numerous fights. However, the final straw was when he hit a teacher in a fit of rage after Mr. Robencraw insulted his intelligence for failing yet another quiz due to his extreme procrastination. For years he wandered around Minnesota, a vagabond with no purpose in life. But that was until he met the legendary boxing trainer Rob Rammers , whose famous saying was scurry like a spider, sting like a scorpion. Meeting Mr. Rammers changed Jack's life completely. Under Mr. Rammers training Jack became a truly great boxer and soon, Rammers decided that it was time to take the world by storm. During his first fight, Jack was up against another powerful newcomer that was well documented and was the favorite for the fight. Jack was booed when e went into the ring, but he quickly quelled the crowd by delivering an instant knockout with his devastating right, and because of that right fist, he was thenceforth known as Bazooka Jack. His success did not

Jack Dempsey the amazing Professional heavyweight boxer from the poor family in Colorado, to the road of success. His earlier career, he fought against Jess Willard, 6 feet 6 inches while Jack was only 6’1. Jack out fought Willard with his ruthless tactics and quick feet. Dempsey took the title of World Champ from Willard and then defended his title for six years fighting 5 matches. After this many people spoke of him cheating in the Willard fight with “loaded gloves”. Whilst that rumor was about others began to spread about him being a draft dodger, avoiding the draft during

Johnson followed Jeffries from town to town. “Jeffries, however, refused to fight a black boxer and instead decided to retire undefeated.”(Unforgivable Blackness). The Championship was handed over to a white named Tommy Burns, who as well declined to fight Johnson but eventually gave in at the cost of thirty thousand dollars. In the year 1908, Johnson knocked out Burns in the sixteenth round, to win the title and create history. “He was a fast and brilliant defensive boxer who fought at a time when white champions like John L. Sullivan and James Jeffries refused to fight black fighters. Jeffries retired rather than face Johnson, but he returned six years later when the clamor for a great white hope could not be ignored”(Sandomir D3). Even James Jefferies was beaten and and thus, Johnson had beat all that stood in his way, from bottom to the top. Through perseverance and relentlessness, Johnson had achieved his dream.

“College is the reward for surviving high school.” In the novel The Wednesday Wars, by Gary D. Schmidt, Holling’s dad does not let Heather, who is Holling’s sister, go to Columbia University in New York. I think this is because he wants Heather to stay living as a family. I also think Holling’s dad hates college. He thinks that college is so stupid, and you just finish high school, and go on in life. I think Heather’s gonna sneakily go to college without her dad knowing.

Jack Johnson also known as the first black heavy weight champion, frightened many Caucasian men. One might ask if it was because of his colossal size or if it merely was because of the fact that Johnson demanded equality. He wanted to be known all around the world, and nothing was going to stop him; not even a white man. In order for Johnson to be taken seriously, he challenged multiple white men to boxing matches. He wanted to prove to those men and the world that he was no ordinary black boxer. However, no white male boxer would meet up in the ring

Heroes tend to have a lot of physical strength, allowing them to fight their enemies and opponents. Our anti-hero, is evidently unable to physically beat his enemies, or at least resist their strength with his own. From the beginning of the novel, it is evident that Winston Smith is physically inept as the narrator states, “The flat was seven flights up, and Winston, who was thirty-nine, and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle, went slowly resting several times on the way.”(P1) The lacking of physical abilities is present in fact that Smith had to stop multiple times climbing the stairs. A physically ept man on his age should be able to climb a few flight of stairs without stopping. To further the evidence of Smith’s lack of fitness, during a morning exercise routine, “A Sudden hot sweat had broken out all over Winston’s body.” (P37) The exercises which the comrades were partaking in were mere stretches, which Winston had difficulty with, further confirming this physical fitness is sub-par.

When it comes to the film industry, entertainment is the tool used to acquire what is desired, money. The main goal for filmmakers when they create a film is to attain money in addition to the money spent to make the movie. Therefore, in some films that they like to base off of true accounts, it is somewhat necessary to dramatize or embellish the story to really tug at the heartstrings of the films audience. They achieve this goal by the use of dramatic music, ambient lighting, and a small amount of tweaked diction. The Fighter is an excellent example of this dramatization in action because throughout the film the characters are faced with a multitude of decisions that must be made. The choices they make require the characters to choose

which is a common method of winning. A person can go a whole fight without throwing a single punch