Warzone: Nemesis: A Novel of Mars (65 page)
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Authors: Morris Graham
Infighting
- Fighting or boxing at close quarters.
Inside Fighter
- An inside fighter is a very skilled boxer who can instantaneously throw a burst of punches including uppercuts and hooks, in the pursuit of ending the gap between himself and his opponent.
Jab
- The jab is a quick, straight punch thrown with the lead hand. Often the most important punch in a boxer’s arsenal because of its power and its ability to set up other punches. It can also be used as a way to gauge distance, to keep an opponent wary, or as a defensive move to slow an advancing opponent.
Kidney Punch
- A kidney punch is a blow to the lower back which is illegal in boxing due to the damage it causes to ones kidneys.
Kissed the canvas
- Expression used to describe when a boxer is knocked down with his face facing the floor on the canvas.
Knockdown
- A knockdown occurs when a boxer, after being hit by his opponent: 1) touches the ring floor with some part of his body other than the feet; 2) has any part of his body outside the ropes; 3) is hanging on the ropes helplessly; or 4) is judged to be in a semi-conscious state and unable to continue fighting. A slip or fall on the canvas by a boxer, resulting in any of the above conditions, is not a knockdown.
Knockout (KO)
- A knockout occurs when an boxer is knocked down by his opponent or otherwise is down and the referee reaches the count of ten before the boxer is back on his feet.
Lucky punch
- To have a lucky break.
Mouthpiece
- A piece of hard, form-fitting rubber a boxer wears while fighting, primarily to prevent cuts in the mouth by the teeth, and to protect the teeth.
Neutral Corner
- One of the two corners of a boxing ring not assigned to either boxer during a bout. Also referred to as a white corner in some countries: the corners of the ring where there are no chairs or members of any boxer’s team. After a boxer has knocked down his opponent, he is required to go immediately to a neutral corner while the referee tolls the count.
On the Ropes
- A boxer who has been knocked against the ropes and is trapped by his or her opponent’s punches.
Overhand Punch
- A haymaker style punch that swings up and over. It is very powerful and has been very effective.
Peek-a-Boo
- A peek-a-boo defense is a style of defense created by trainer Cus D’Amato, whereby the boxer raises his two hands up high, to his forehead and extremely close to his face, to guard against punches to his face and head (but often thereby leaving his body open to attack if he does not also use his elbowed arms for protection).
Punch
- of the basic punches are the uppercut, straight right/cross, jab and hook.
Rabbit Punch
- A punch delivered by a boxer to the back of the neck of his opponent. It is illegal to use because of the potential for serious injury it can cause. The term is derived from the blow used by a rabbit hunter, to kill the animal.
Rope a Dope
- Rope a dope was used by Muhammad Ali in his 1974 fight against George Foreman. It involves lying back on the ropes, shelling up and allowing your opponent to throw punches until they tire themselves out and then you exploit their defensive flaws and nail them.
Rounds
- Each round lasts three minutes with have a one minute rest between rounds.
Saved by the Bell
- Saved by the bell is when the bell rings signaling the end of the round before the referee finishes his count. This phrase came into being in the latter half of the 19
th
century.
Second
- A person other than the coach who stands in a boxer’s corner during a bout and gives him advice and assistance between rounds. A team of seconds is also called the boxer’s corner.
Southpaw
- Southpaws are left handed fighters (unorthodox). They put their right foot forward, jab with their right hand and throw power punches with their left hand (rear hand). To a “normal” right handed fighter a southpaw’s punches are coming from the wrong side. When a right handed and left handed boxer fight each other their lead foot is almost on top of the other persons. Southpaws aren’t always born left handed some are converted southpaws.
Southpaws should be drowned at birth
- An old boxing idiom. To an orthodox right handed boxer southpaw’s punches come from the opposite direction than what are trained to expect. It just feels wrong.
Stance
- Stance usually refers to whether a boxer is right-handed or left-handed. If he generally hits with his right hand, with his left foot forward, he is considered an orthodox puncher. If he punches with the left hand, with the right foot forward, he is considered a southpaw. A boxer who does both is considered a switch hitter.
Straight Right
- Considered as a power punch, it refers to a right handed boxer throwing a straight right punch.
Sucker Punch
- A surprise punch that is used when the opponent is caught off guard.
Sweet science
- Another term for the sport of boxing, created by Pierce Egan in his seminal book
Boxiana
.
Throw in the Towel
- The traditional admission of defeat in boxing, where a second who feels his boxer cannot or should not continue the bout throws a towel or sponge into the ring, to end the fight by a technical knockout.
Twenty count
- When a fighter has been knocked through the ropes and outside of the ring, he has to the count of twenty to be inside of the right and on his feet, ready to resume.
Upper Cut
- An upwards-thrown punch designed to hit an opponent’s chin, usually part of a multi-punch combination and best used when a boxer is very close to his opponent.
Acknowledgements
To Jesus Christ, the “author and finisher of our faith.”
To my wife Edie for all her love and support.
This was written under inspiration of the video game Battlezone, created by Activision®, currently owned by Atari® Interactive.
Quotes from
The Art of War
translation by Thomas Cleary, Shambhala Publications.
Windows® is a registered trademark of the Microsoft Corperation.
Star Trek
® presently has two owners: TV - CBS Television Distribution, CBS Paramount Network Television, Movies - Paramount Pictures, Viacom.
Sonic Drive-In© 2012 America's Drive-In Brand Properties LLC.
San Geronimo Lodge Bed & Breakfast Inn is owned and operated by Charles Montgomery and Pam Tyler of Taos, NM.
Mandina’s Restaurant of New Orleans is owned and operated by Cindy Mandina.
McDonald’s™ is a global franchise retailer, selling food in 119 countries.
The song of the Navajo shepherd children is a traditional Navajo folk song, author unknown.
Fencing terms defined reference Wikipedia.
Description of the Truman carpet, Wikipedia reference.
The explanation of “there is no sex in the Soviet Union,” is quoted from Russiapedia online.
Other quotes from Wikipedia.
Also I wish to express thanks to the world’s best research assistant, Google.
Quote from martial arts legend Bruce Lee.
Boxing Stories
by Jack London.
“Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” was written and recorded by Jim Croce.
“Bad Moon Rising” was written by John Fogerty and recorded by Credence Clearwater Revival.
“Cecelia” was written by Paul Simon and recorded by Simon and Garfunkle.
“Evil Ways” was written by Clarence “Sonny” Henry and made famous by the band Santana.
“Johnny B Good” was written and recorded by Chuck Berry.
“Sweet Caroline” was written and recorded by Neil Diamond.
Cover art by Jordon Riser, www.jordanrdesigns.com.
Special thanks to Jim Decker, Jim Lambright, Ladonna Hargis, Jon Sowden, Meredith Smith, Don Hall and Dave Smith for helping me edit this. Special thanks to former servicemen, who helped me “keep it real,” Mike Suldo of the Seawolf Association, Bob Heitman, Jim Decker, Jim Lambright, Jerril Smith, Isaih Jernigan, John Garrett and Greg Schleintz. Also thanks to members of the Battlezone Club, Dx. for his technical support, and Blunt Force Trauma, who helped with proof reading the early manuscript. Finally thanks to Guido Henkle for his tutorial on formatting eBooks.
Special thanks to Victor Marx of ATP (All Things Possible) Ministries, who graciously allowed me to write in his father, Soke Karl W. Marx, founder of Keichu-Ryu Karate, and my former judo instructor into the story in a fictional setting.
Boxing Terms Glossary is a compilation from different sources,
Ringside By Gus,
[http://www.ringsidebygus.com/boxing-terms.html] website by Gus Petropulos,
Sports Pundit website
, [http://www.sportspundit.com/boxing/terms],
Boxrec website, [http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Category:Glossary],
Merriam-Webster online dictionary
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary].
Special thanks to Sergey Zuhair for consulting about Soviet military and Russian culture. Most of all, thanks to Walter Parchomenko for his enthusiastic encouragement and invaluable assistance in helping me finish this project.
Disclaimer
All characters appearing in this work are from the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead is purely coincidental.
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