An evasion artist, practically untouchable in the ring, and his bad end suddenly. Haye: “Not even throwing a handful of rice on him, he could hit him”
While the opponent tried to think about the point where he would go to take refuge, he had already fled from there. Whenever we see – or do we try to review? – In the various repertoire movies the fulcrum of its action, we realize that the essence was in the absence: an oxymoron? Perhaps, at least a little, because the boxing is made up of the blows only when they score; When they end up in the void, they are like the trains that derail, without a destination that gives meaning to their journey. There is nothing more frustrating than a punch that ends in nothing, loaded from the positioning of the legs and with the presumption of hearing a cheekbone from there at a moment, or a rib under the glove. Sometimes he was enough to bend the neck of a few degrees to see a jab derail, or a direct ending in a dead track, while an opponent risked losing his balance and a spectator, reasonably, began to suppose that “he” had the same visual apparatus of the flies, which elaborate the images with a speed equal to seven times that of man. Because some of those dodged were difficult to explain to them otherwise. “He” was Pernell Whitaker, and perhaps he had never heard in his life that Sicilian saying that he reads “Càlati juncu ca passes the china“, namely” folded rushes that passes full “. Praise to flexibility, evasive art, the ability to neutralize a force without opposing a contrary to it, but by supporting the full of the attack of others simply, letting it pass, making it exhaust his inertia elsewhere, or even in the void, as the opponents of Whitaker learned at their expense, including those with a high name.