By the end of Round 10, something else was clear: Roy Jones is the first fighter whose skills and aplomb approach those of Muhammad Ali, the greatest heavyweight ever.
In 2003, when the man from Pensacola, Florida, had the temerity to challenge John Ruiz for his version of the world heavyweight title, and did so despite scaling fully 25lbs lighter than the champion, the New York Times felt compelled to declare: "Roy Jones is the first fighter whose skills and aplomb approach those of Muhammad Ali.
So, for the greater good (of the blogosphere, at least) I must volunteer myself, a long-time morning show executive and, just like NBC's Detective Olivia Benson, a crime fighter whose skills have been sharpened by once having suffered a personal assault as well.
He trained Mike Tyson when Tyson was a teen-ager; and he trained a heavyweight champion named Michael Moorer, an unsteady fighter of modest skills who never would have won the title without him.
Born a fighter, with combat skills and tactics automatically programmed, she is initially ideologically at odds with the Doctor's pacifism, but after learning she has two hearts and is connected to the near-extinct race of Time Lords, she begins to pattern her behaviour on that of her father.
The bigger guy had done his first work on part of one living room wall before the small guy was 'recruited' by him (for his reputation as a street fighter and his skills as a tagger, though I don't recall if that term was used by them at that time).
Many fighters polished their skills in the Kosovo conflict, and many are from Albania, as well as Kosovo.
The Houthi militiamen are experienced fighters, their military skills and ability to withstand air attack honed between 2004 and 2010, when they fought off six offensives launched by Saleh, who was then in power and closely allied to Saudi Arabia.
But an unintended consequence of the prolonged conflict was that the "ragtag" Libyan fighters improved their skills on the battlefield and enabled civil institutions to arise from the rubble of a reign of terror.
