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Ester vs. Laracuente: why the debate?
“I didn’t deserve to lose the fight” argued the United States of America’s Belinda Laracuente to the media shortly before departure to her home country.
But the judges declared Ester Phiri winner of the hardest fight the Zambian fighter has ever engaged into. Then why the controversy? Was Laraucuete just embarrassed that she flew all the way to lose on point split basis? Was there something odd with the judgment?
Probably psychologically yes Laracuente won, but technically no. Laraucuete knows how to play with the mental or psychic of Ester that she nearly lost the stamina in the sport.
Psychologists say ‘whatever your mind conceives, you can achieve.’ But what happens when you are working under psychological defeat? You blander!
The American boxer capitalized on her past fights that she won to confuse and defeat Ester in the mind. Considering the number of fights she has taken so far, and how many she as won, Ester took it that she would be next to fall.
Ester did not realize that she was a different boxer herself. A boxer with different approach and stamina. She allowed Laraucuete to prostitute her mind with her past wins.
Probably the fight was the worst to Ester where the opponent was making funny of her even in the ring. Adrenaline would have increased as she looked for an opening for her to square Laraucuete a knock out that would have probably taken her to the ground.
She ended up throwing punches any how, and she got tired. If Ester was prepared psychologically, she would have given a better fight than the one which has put her boxing career into question and her win debatable.
Take Peter in the Bible for instance; when he saw Jesus walking on water, he first believed he could do it.
He stepped onto the water and there he was walking. But immediately doubt came into his mind, he drowned.
Ester needs psychological training or preparation in her coming fights. Her trainers should not look at it in terms of losing money which would have been theirs because her wins benefits them as well. Equally, the day she will lose they will share the loss.
It is now to take a step or she will always be in for it. The tension would be worse when it comes to fights outside the country as she will have no morale boosters. This coupled with mental defeat; she may end her career on a bad note.
One would wonder what was running in Ester’s mind to be exposed to such kind of ridicule or psychological mockery in the ring.
Looking at how Laraucuete kept on dribbling her mind mental faculty, she would have even regretted why she entered the ring to go through that mental torturing boxer.
They say if you can’t defeat them confuse them, and Ester was at to the American in the ring at the Woodlands stadium.
Anyway, it seems it was not Ester alone. Her sponsors and supporters like went through the same mental asunder.
“They should check that boxer nicely, ‘she’ should be a man,” commented some spectators as Laraucuete bounced into the ring doing her lingerie. Some did not want to watch the fight; they preferred hearing about it on the media.
The judges seem to have been equally unsure of what to do. They never announced the scores, they just announced the split points. Something odd, isn’t it?
May be lack of education on the sport? Who knows, may be that is the way to go when tension is too much in the house.
Laraucuete is good at it. She knows fighting is not only physique, one has to use other tactics, and she utilised them. And if she had packaged it well, she would have knocked Ester big time.
Probably what annoyed Laraucuete the most was Ester being declared the winner regardless of how the American had packaged her fighting strategies as compared to her opponent Ester who only depended on her ‘muscles.’
The technical advice is always expensive, and Laraucuete would have paid decently for it, only to be told she had lost the fight.
She knew very well that her record was a powerful tool to thwart Ester prior to the actual fight. Fighting has many stages that Ester has to incorporate in her career to lengthen her span in the sport.
Armies have won wars by playing on the psychology of their opponents. Sometimes even when they were losing a lot of soldiers, they kept on saying ‘we are smoking’ them, giving wrong figures to the media for the soldiers to keep on fighting as though they were doing well while in reality they were dying.
Foot teams have professionals who handle the psychological preparation for the betterment of their teams.
And should not Laraucuete utilise the tactics after all boxing is almost a ‘war’ at its own level. She used a lot of propaganda to face Ester, which Ester did not consider as she fought.
Laraucuete used a lot of media propaganda to torment her opponent even before they faced each other because she knew it was that advantaged her.
Looking at the number of fights and belts she has won and the way she carried herself, the way she spoke about the fight, the confidence she stressed in her words; all played it well on Ester’s mind.
Germans have used such strategies to win wars, who is Laraucuete not to benefit from such iconic architects of facing opponents?
What could be the lesson to Ester, her trainer and sponsors? They should include what they had over seen in their programme.
Ester should not face her opponents on the basis of their past record. It could be vital, but she should take herself as a unique boxer. She has the ability, but the psychological defeat she displayed when she fought Laraucuete is very worrying.
She must realize that even the hardest target can be brought down. Probably she faced Laraucuete with a lot of fear which melted her bones as she entered the ring.
She has to re-strategize well because her other boxers may be studying her, identifying her weaknesses and strength, and before she knew it, she will be stripped off her titles.
Ester’s trainer has more work to do than before because the boxer’s career is at stake. She is good, but she needs to do more.
It is worthy saying; CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!