From Tom Schreck, author of On the Ropes, TKO and Out Cold, all Duffy Dombrowski Mysteries
This week's Fight Club Donnybrook starter....
Irish light heavy Billy Conn had Joe Louis beat through 13 rounds. It would've been the biggest upset ever.
Then Conn got cocky and tried to knock the Brown Bomber out. Louis hit Conn and that was that.
After the fight the reporters asked Conn why he changed strategy and tried to take out the much bigger Louis. He said:
"What's the point of being Irish if you can't be stupid."
He meant being Irish means going with your emotions, throwing logic away and doing what your heart commands. In a fight it can be suicide but I'm guessing that same heart (and stupidity) probably served Conn well other times.
So fight club, when do you get Irish? When do you lead with the heart? And do you wish you didn't? Does it serve you in combat(physical or emotional)? or do the Joe Louises of the world drop you when you were way ahead on points?
Would you change it if you could?
Touch gloves and come out at the bell...
3 comments:
Tom, thanks to you and Billy Conn, I've discovered I'm Irish by inclination if not by breeding.
Ah, so it was my Irish side that made me make all those bone headed moves. Wish it meant I could sing, too. But alas ...
Yep, I must be Irish, too.
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