The boxing match was spectacular, a kind of spectacular different from that depicted in film and television works, and even different from high-level fighting matches in the real world.
The brilliance of this match lay in the reasons both fighters had to continue fighting, even though by the end, both of them were completely exhausted, they persisted in wanting to stand a little longer.
Had one of them not been unable to continue, heavily falling to the ground and unable to get back up, the match might have continued a while longer.
Tragic, the word is very fitting to describe the battle within the iron cage, from the ferocious attacks at the start to eventually competing to see who could push the other one down, the bloodstained ring floor, the scabbed wounds, the marks left by dark red dried blood...
When the victor expressionlessly was supported by the referee to lift his arm, and when the defeated knelt on the ground sobbing, all of this impacted Helen greatly.
