From tonight’s 24/7 Pacquiao vs Marquez…

Few events leave behind images, as arresting as fights do. They eternally pause the most intolerable of moments, and provide indisputable evidence of just how much the ring demands of the will.

But even if the spectacle has always been about what is visible, the craft is forever based in what is not.  For you can never see a fighter’s most important weapons and you’re always left to imagine, exactly what he carries into a bout.  Resources like desire, furnish a legacy by eliminating any lingering elements of uncertainty. Assets like desperation, can bring history in line with what you’re convinced is already reality…