THE FIRST PUNCH by Desmond Kelly Two professional boxers enter the “ring” for a “title-fight”. Both are trained to the highest degree. Both know their ringcraft & both are just as anxious to win this particular “fight”, but usually, after the introduction, the first “sizing-up”, the first clever “parrying” by both pugilists, IT IS the “first solid punch” that is successfully “thrown” which is the one that “counts” as far as the fight is concerned. If perhaps, he is psychic, the boxer who feels the sting of that first punch, begins to think that he may LOSE this fight & the boxer who delivers that punch has a definite rise in his confidence & might think he will WIN the bout. In the meantime, because it is a “title-fight”, there are eleven “rounds” to go. The “battle of the 1st punch has been won” BUT the “war of the fight ...