PugJesus@kbin.socialM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.world · edit-23 months agoTwo boxers after fifteen rounds of trading blows. Canada, 1913media.kbin.socialimagemessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1130arrow-down14
arrow-up1126arrow-down1imageTwo boxers after fifteen rounds of trading blows. Canada, 1913media.kbin.socialPugJesus@kbin.socialM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.world · edit-23 months agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squareHotspurlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoDamn… guess the rules were you had to KO or the bout just kept going? I can’t imagine what the last 6.75 hours of that looked like.
minus-squarePugJesus@kbin.socialOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoThrowing in the towel might have been an option, but as I understand it, the boxers were fighting for prize money, and the loser would get nothing. Hell of an incentive to stay in.
minus-squareHotspurlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoAh yeah that would explain it better. Still, talk about determination…
Damn… guess the rules were you had to KO or the bout just kept going? I can’t imagine what the last 6.75 hours of that looked like.
Throwing in the towel might have been an option, but as I understand it, the boxers were fighting for prize money, and the loser would get nothing. Hell of an incentive to stay in.
Ah yeah that would explain it better. Still, talk about determination…