How to Handle Yourself Like a Sportsman

Or sportswoman.  Sportsperson?





Anyway, the answer is that you never give up.  You're having a bad day.  A bad run.  Whatever.  As boxer Rico Ramos shows you here, you just keep swinging.  Ramos was losing, by all accounts, in a recent fight against Akifumi Shimoda.  So badly that most people thought the fight would/should be stopped because of how much blood Ramos had lost.  Then, Ramos KO'ed Shimoda with one punch (okay, maybe two).  After the fight he said, "I had to go for him before they stop it. Go for that championship."

Boom.

This is what it means to refuse to lose.  To go for broke.  To never give up.


Good coverage of the fight over at Deadspin.

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