The other night we watched a boxing match between Jones and Trenadad. People had mixed feelings about the final outcome viz. Jones’ victory. As you well know, guys guessed and second guessed the trainers, the commentators, and even themselves. Two guys, let’s call them Jeff and Jim, who were cellmates, had the same arguments. Jeff contended that if Trenadad was more agressive and used his hook, he would have countered Jones’ speed. Jim disagreed. In their cell after the 10pm they suited up using pillow and matrass stuffing and fashioned gloves from sheets and blankets and each of them applied their respective strategy. Unfortunately, Jeff and his Agressive-Hook strategy were no match to the speed strategy. Jeff was beaten! They went to “sleep” but the whole thing did not sit well with Jeff (our Agressive-Hook expert). Around 2 a.m. Jeff gave up on the boxing moves and went Rambo. He got his “hammer” and started stabbing the speed demon (Jim). Jim woke up, snatched the knife from the Hook dude and paid him in kind. Blood everywhere, the screams woke the fans, the referees were called and the match was over. It is now official that the the Agressive-Hook strategy would not have worked for Trenadad.
