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someone who's decided the floor is just a resting place, not a destination.
means A person who fights — whether literally in combat or competition, or figuratively by refusing to give up against hardship or illness.
from From 'fight,' which traces back to Old English 'feohtan,' to combat or struggle, with cousins across the old Germanic tongues. The '-er' is the plain English agent-maker that turns any verb into the one who does it: bake becomes baker, fight becomes fighter. So the word is simply 'one who feohtans' — the warrior shape of an ancient struggling verb that English has carried, swinging, for well over a thousand years.
- brain rewires
- Repeated blows shrink memory regions decades early
- southpaw edge
- Lefties win more; opponents rarely train for them
- weight cut
- Boxers shed 10% body weight in days, mostly water
- reaction floor
- Elite fighters react in under 200 milliseconds
- oldest champ
- Bernard Hopkins held a title at 49
muhammad ali — boxer who won heavyweight championship 3 times, 1964-1978
sugar ray leonard — boxer who defeated marvin hagler in 1987 in las vegas
anderson silva — ufc middleweight champion with longest title reign, 2006-2013
conor mcgregor — mma fighter who won dual championships at ufc in 2016