Post by Alex D on Jan 6, 2013 12:38:12 GMT -5
A punch on the proboscis
By O. F. Snelling
This article, written in the 1980s, is reproduced here with the kind permission of Derek O’Dell, Editor and Producer of ‘The Southern Ex-Boxer’.
Professional boxing isn’t like entering some beauty competition. And it never was. Certainly, some pretty handsome fellows have taken to the punch-up for fame and fortune, but if they ever worried about their looks excessively they were simply mugs who adopted the wrong occupation. Few of them ever got very far.
What’s the commonest blow employed in boxing? I’d say, without hesitation, that it’s the straight left lead to the face. It doesn’t always land, but when it does it usually arrives with a plonk right on the schnozzle, and the poor old proboscis is the human feature which takes more than a bit of the brunt in most fistic exchanges.
Consequently, just as most fighters seldom get through a career without sooner or later knocking up one or two of their knuckles, so very few manage all their days in this tough business without suffering a broken nose.
In fact, the corrugated hooter is the trademark of the fighting man, and he can wear it like a badge of pride. It’s the boxer’s equivalent of the old soldier sporting the coloured medal ribbons across the left side of his waistcoat, and it’s far, far more evident than the bulbous and mis-shapen ear more usually connected with the so-called ‘cauliflower crew’.
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blog.boxinghistory.org.uk/2013/01/a-punch-on-proboscis.html
By O. F. Snelling
This article, written in the 1980s, is reproduced here with the kind permission of Derek O’Dell, Editor and Producer of ‘The Southern Ex-Boxer’.
Professional boxing isn’t like entering some beauty competition. And it never was. Certainly, some pretty handsome fellows have taken to the punch-up for fame and fortune, but if they ever worried about their looks excessively they were simply mugs who adopted the wrong occupation. Few of them ever got very far.
What’s the commonest blow employed in boxing? I’d say, without hesitation, that it’s the straight left lead to the face. It doesn’t always land, but when it does it usually arrives with a plonk right on the schnozzle, and the poor old proboscis is the human feature which takes more than a bit of the brunt in most fistic exchanges.
Consequently, just as most fighters seldom get through a career without sooner or later knocking up one or two of their knuckles, so very few manage all their days in this tough business without suffering a broken nose.
In fact, the corrugated hooter is the trademark of the fighting man, and he can wear it like a badge of pride. It’s the boxer’s equivalent of the old soldier sporting the coloured medal ribbons across the left side of his waistcoat, and it’s far, far more evident than the bulbous and mis-shapen ear more usually connected with the so-called ‘cauliflower crew’.
Read the rest of the article:
blog.boxinghistory.org.uk/2013/01/a-punch-on-proboscis.html