re: #213 Aceofwhat?

During a normal fight between boxers, each of them will be on the ropes at one point or another. It’s actual importance in a boxing fight is that it’s a tactically important moment, something that the aggressor needs to exploit and the defender needs to get out of— unless they’re a genius like Nicolino Locche, who didn’t have to worry about things like ‘getting punched’ that the rest of us did. But the defender can use the situation to their advantage, and it’s not the defining moment of the match, usually.

The common-language meaning of it is “about to be finished off”, which isn’t really any more true when a boxer is on the ropes than any time else. It’s dangerous, but it’s dangerous for the attacker too, since the defender can push off of the ropes on his punches.

It’s just one of those many occasions where the public perception of something is out of whack with the technicalities.