Descriptive Essay: Going To Fight One

The screen is filled with blackness. Then, off in the distance an image begins to fill the horizon. It is a stilled photo of James Edwards trying to pull himself up with the ring ropes. Across from him is Nina Stokes. A predatory smile graces her lips. Slowly, the camera starts to shift towards the face of James Edwards. It gets closer and closer until it passed right through the image. Suddenly the physical face of Edwards fills the screen. His visage is faintly, illuminated. He begins to speak.

“Nina, that image has been etched into my mind for weeks now. It formed the basis of what I thought about you. Based off that picture I thought you were a cruel person who liked to toy with her opponents when they were down. I was ready to use …show more content…
There is always a common thread to the way Nina projects her views of what it is like to wrestle in Fight One. She often speaks of how the locker room must view her as this upstart who does not belong here, particularly the veterans. To Nina the vets in the back want her to pay her dues and earn her keep around the Tsongas Center. But no, to paraphrase her in her own words, Nina Stokes is not going to let that happen. Her fighting spirit and gypsy heart are going to propel her to victory against the old guard of any promotion she laces her boots up …show more content…
It’s so easy to make up an elaborate tale and then project that onto the person who will standing across the ring from you. I’ve done it. There have been countless times were I’ve painted my opponents as the villain in my story. It gave me sufficient fuel to battle until all that self-manufactured hatred ran out. Then in the heart of the storm I would reach down and nothing was left. I’d worn myself out by trying so hard to hate for no reason at all that I did not have the mental fortitude left to continue the fight. That is the danger that you will find yourself in on Monday