Having an enormously powerful, beautiful, and quiet loner fighter is exactly what will cause you to be laughed at.
Enter Arturo (Gustavo Sánchez Parra), a quiet stud with a fighter's body and a tendency to slap and spank.
There is an engagement with a training partner, a drop to the mat and then often a quiet pause until one fighter says: "You all right?
Unluckily for Russia's military industry, the war in Chechnya is hardly a show-case for the super-quiet submarines, missiles, or fighter aircraft that it most likes to sell.
But otherwise ominously quiet, with not a Tie Fighter wail to be heard.
And whether or not he was sincere, he sensed that it would be politic to ask me to send the world a message that even he, a fighter, really wanted quiet.
As the car picks up speed, McGregor yells: "Tell José I'm coming!" The fighter is ominously quiet when I suggest that, for all his mockery of Aldo, who withdrew from their showdown last month through injury, to be replaced by Mendes, he surely respects the Brazilian?
It started off rather guarded, Tyson exchanging jabs with his sparring partners, Sean Turner – a wide-as-he-is-tall contender from Dublin, and the very picture of a professional brawler – and Marcin Rekowski, a quiet but highly rated Polish fighter with a speed comparable to a man far younger than his 37 years.
North of Hermel, the Syrian border was quiet, the black-clad Hezbollah fighters who had been active there during the Qusayr battle nowhere to be seen; Hezbollah supporters said they had moved on to other battles in Syria.
After a full day and night to digest Tuesday's events, New Yorkers wake up to a different city, a quiet, somber place where jet fighters circle through the sky and swarms of police linger on nearly every corner.
