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The ultimate goal of a boxing match is a knock out. The knockout punch brings satisfaction to the winner of the boxing math and the crowd. This one punch can make a fight exciting. However, if there is not a knockout punch, the fight is often times dull. After a knockout punch, one man loses consciousness while the other man dances around the ring raising his hands in victory and is swarmed by his coaches and the press. Oates continues to argue that boxing is the cruelest sport by comparing a boxing match to a tragedy. If a fight has no knock out by the end, it seems like the fight is missing something. The knockout punch is a cruel but key aspect to boxing which makes people love

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.

These friends influence him to do well and work hard and one example is his friend Donatelli.This is Alfred coach and he always influences him to exercise and train well.One example is when Alfred was about to leave the gym Donatelli influenced him to stay and helped him work hard to become great and his boxing career.He helped him go to fights and trained him well so he could win.These new friends had a

The Vogel brothers were at it again. This was their third fight this week. They were fighting over a pair of grey Under Armour sweatpants. Tanner was complaining how Tyler took the last pair of sweatpants and he only washed that one pair. They were in a hurry because their friends were on their way to pick the twins up. Since it was a Saturday they of course had to have plans since they are teenagers. There was a couple punches, slaps, and pushes. The neighbors saw them come out of the house and start fighting in the street. This fight between the Vogel brothers was like the Mayweather and Pacquiao fight. As they were fighting, their friends showed up. Jon and louie were nervous when they saw Tyler and Tanner start fighting because they did

The kid and his girl, (Maybe his arguing w/ the guys girl made him punch him), stood for the entire game, and with that in mind, the statement made by the older guy, prior to being punched, begins to sound a little different.

Brotherly Love in The Unvanquished by William Faulkner Ringo and Bayard love each other like brothers despite not actually being brothers. The acted together in brothers in crime, in revenge, and in values. Both of them did everything together from a young age because they were raised together. The two of them stole mules, got revenge on men, and believed the same things because that is what brothers do. The only thing keeping them away from being actual brothers was their DNA.

In the story the speaker asks his brother “ Brother…Do you count me as a friend or am I the enemy in your eyes” because right now the speaker and the brother are both soldier in a ongoing war. But the brother of the speaker is going against his side of the war. Both of these characters choose to go against each other in war to gain something out of war. At the time the speaker said those words he realized that he might have ruined the relationship between a family members. But now it to late to look back they have suffer the consequences of not choosing their family over the war, only because they wanted the benefit they were going to get of fighting in either side.

The boys work out together at the gym on Ninth Street. They also run along the river in the lower east side of Manhattan. When it came time for the match, he boys found out that they were to fight each other in the main bout. Both boys wanted to win, but neither boy want it to break up their friendship.

The decision on going all out or being easy on each other in the fight was quickly solved when “...any small doubt about their friendship affecting their fight was being neatly dispelled.” on page 140. This choice is evident when they do not stop punching even after the bell rings on page 143. The friendship conflict is also worked out, with the winner being “be friends”. On page 143 the friends walk away arm in arm and do not stay to learn who won.

With Eduardo’s parents gone, his siblings and himself had nobody to look after them. One day Eduardo and his brothers were leaping

Throughout the short stories, “Apollo” by Chimamanda Adichie and, “ By Any Other Name” By Santha Rama Rau, the authors reveal that friendship is a powerful bond and puts you through multiple emotions. Okenwa and Raphael are two boys who become friends through the powerful strength of friendship. They start to make a strong bond through similarities such as their love of Kung Fu which sparks their friendship in the first place. Okenwa stated, ´´Outside the kitchen door was a high open veranda, and I wanted to jump off its flight of six steps and try a flying kick. “No,” Raphael said. “That veranda is too high” (p. 3). This demonstrates that through their similarities, that they begin to care for one another. Raphael wants whats best

The strong friendship that these boys had can be seen in the way that they did not want to compete because they were afraid they were going to hurt their friendship.But the one thing that worried them the most was when they were practicing for their fight because at first they did not know who they were going to fight each other so they kept punching bags.They

They both did not want to hurt each other's feelings but, they told each other that who ever lost will not get mad or jealous.

The mere idea of high school students designing a night full of organized boxing matches against their peers seemed awfully far-fetched. When it came to actually executing the idea and putting it all into action, it was an absolutely unprecedented and seemingly unattainable feat. The legendary creation was first sparked while watching the much hyped Manny Pacquiao vs Floyd Mayweather fight in my basement with some friends . As their match went on, I said "imagine if we had a fight night for Prep kids." The initial reaction was as if I just dropped an atomic bomb. It blew them away and came off as such a ludicrous, yet magnificent idea. Pacquiao and Mayweather 's disappointing fight droned on for 12 rounds with minimal action, so we

The pair shared a genuine emotional moment after their match at WrestleMania XXVII, with both men admitting they had their doubts if they could still go inside the ring and thanking the other for bringing out the best in them.