Flawless Victory
Jun. 12th, 2009 10:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davywavyOr, more likely, fatality. Mine.
On May 30 1833, in a particularly brutal fight for the English heavyweight boxing championship which lasted more than 3 hours, James Burke defeated Simon Byrne, the Irish champion. Burke knocked Byrne unconscious in the 99th round and Byrne died three days later.
I was vaguely reminded of this rather miserable story last night, as kickboxing Ninja Master outlined his latest hair-brained wheeze for charity. Ninja master is a very fit chap. I suppose he has to be, really, as it's his job, and some might call him sadistic as his main hobby seems to be bellowing I like to watch you suffer in my ear whilst I try not to cry.
Anyway, last night he came out with a an idea for charity: namely sponsored boxing. Boxing for one hundred rounds. One. Hundred. Rounds. Each three minutes, with a one minute rest between each one. That's about six and a half hours, of which I would five hours panting, whimpering and getting punched in the head. I can certainly see why he thinks that some people would pay good money for that to happen.
The thing is, I don't think I'm physically capable of doing this. In fact, I know I'm not. I am absolutely 100% confident when I say that there's no way on God's Dear Green Wweet Earth that I could do this. Maybe I could do 20 rounds. Possibly even 30 or 40 if I were fighting someone a lot smaller than me who had asthma, or maybe polio. But 100? No. Not. A. Hope.
Even so, part of me thinks...why not? But what do you lot think?
[Poll #1414730]
On May 30 1833, in a particularly brutal fight for the English heavyweight boxing championship which lasted more than 3 hours, James Burke defeated Simon Byrne, the Irish champion. Burke knocked Byrne unconscious in the 99th round and Byrne died three days later.
I was vaguely reminded of this rather miserable story last night, as kickboxing Ninja Master outlined his latest hair-brained wheeze for charity. Ninja master is a very fit chap. I suppose he has to be, really, as it's his job, and some might call him sadistic as his main hobby seems to be bellowing I like to watch you suffer in my ear whilst I try not to cry.
Anyway, last night he came out with a an idea for charity: namely sponsored boxing. Boxing for one hundred rounds. One. Hundred. Rounds. Each three minutes, with a one minute rest between each one. That's about six and a half hours, of which I would five hours panting, whimpering and getting punched in the head. I can certainly see why he thinks that some people would pay good money for that to happen.
The thing is, I don't think I'm physically capable of doing this. In fact, I know I'm not. I am absolutely 100% confident when I say that there's no way on God's Dear Green Wweet Earth that I could do this. Maybe I could do 20 rounds. Possibly even 30 or 40 if I were fighting someone a lot smaller than me who had asthma, or maybe polio. But 100? No. Not. A. Hope.
Even so, part of me thinks...why not? But what do you lot think?
[Poll #1414730]
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Date: 2009-06-12 09:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-12 09:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-12 10:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-12 10:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-12 11:26 am (UTC)If you flag after 20 rounds then you're just letting down the orphans, you know? No pressure ;-)
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Date: 2009-06-12 11:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-12 11:31 am (UTC)99 ROUNDS?
Date: 2009-06-12 12:19 pm (UTC)Re: 99 ROUNDS?
Date: 2009-06-12 12:24 pm (UTC)Re: 99 ROUNDS?
Date: 2009-06-12 02:08 pm (UTC)Re: 99 ROUNDS?
Date: 2009-06-12 02:09 pm (UTC)Re: 99 ROUNDS?
Date: 2009-06-12 02:11 pm (UTC):p
More accurately, you get to add your wis to your AC, and I doubt you're going to be wearing heavy armour - unless you've ordered a pair of titanium shorts?
Re: 99 ROUNDS?
Date: 2009-06-12 02:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-12 12:23 pm (UTC)I think 100 rounds is very ambitious. It'll be OK if your opponants are also doing the 100, so you're staggering around like drunken sailors throwing one punch every minute, but then it stops being boxing and is more just trying to stay upright and not fight, if you see what I mean.
Plus, in the spirit of "saving the orphans" you can't exactly try and knock your opponants out to get you out of your misery...
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Date: 2009-06-12 12:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-12 02:55 pm (UTC)I propose 100 rounds of BOXING ROBOTS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joDjwtjIQS8
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Date: 2009-06-12 04:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-15 11:28 am (UTC)no subject
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