Alcohol is somewhat common in boxing, and in combat sports in general. You always have to pretend to be in good shape and very confident, even at the end of the fight, because you never know, you can always change the referee’s choice at the last minute. That is why you often see guys who have just been beaten raise their fists in the air at the end of the fight, as if they have won. After all, you never know.
The American boxer Roscoe Hill took the belt a little too far at the Olympic Games, because he started dancing at the end of his match, which he pitted against the Frenchman Billal Bennama in the -51 kg category. It was a close fight but the little American dance steps failed to convince the jury, who made the Frenchman the winner by a split decision. Result: a good place in the quarter-finals for the French boxer, and a turn to dance for his American partner.
2024-07-31 13:24:21
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