By the Hair of My Chinny Chin Chin

The big fight tonight (see the blog, "Holy Dream," below) reminds me of a sports question. It was discussed by sports commentators years ago, and most of them agreed on the answer, but you don't hear it talked about anymore. It is: Which is the most-difficult, one, particular athletic manuveur (misspelled?) to execute in a sports event?

No, not the no-hitter nor perfect game in baseball---that's a long, continuous, series of actions. No, not the bases-loaded homerun in baseball---that's just another fairly easy action (hitting the homer), with the loaded bases being incidental to one's batting. No, not the 50+-yard field goal in football---that has been accomplished several times, and apparently there's a physical limit anyway on how far one can kick the ball. No, not the hole-in-one in golf---despite its infrequency, even pot-bellied old men have achieved that. No, not the same jockey winning the Triple Crown---too long, too many variables from other horses and riders. No, not the across-the-whole-court basket shot in basketball---particularized but still occasionally achieved. No, not the sub-four-minute mile nor the sub-ten-second 100-yard dash in track---those barriers eventually were and continue to be broken. The most-difficult action, as they used to agree, is the bolo punch in boxing. The bolo consists of a boxer, with his opponent right in front of him, swinging his fully-extended arm along his side in a complete circle, ending with his glove hitting his opponent on the jaw as an uppercut, consequently with the opponent being knocked down if not out. From what I've read, only Kid Gavalan (misspelled?) of Cuba and one other boxer whose name I forget, both from the 1930s or so, successfully executed the bolo punch more than once. I've seen Mohammed Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard attempt it a couple of times but without success.

I'm writing this blog from my hospital bed and with dislocations after having gone into my backyard
and having attempted to answer the question in a concrete manner.

-Old Gargoyle