Francis Ngannou, arguably the most dangerous man in the world when it comes to combat sports. Out of the 8 billion people on the planet, there is perhaps not a single one of them that could beat him in a fair fight. With the ability to throw a punch that has the same amount of horsepower as a family car, he never fails to remain humble, calm and stoic, keeping his ego under control, even when facing off with opponents that have given him non-stop verbal abuse for months leading up to a fight. Never failing to show respect to even his worst enemy. Even when doubted by everyone leading up to his most recent fight with Tyson Fury. Criticised for only being a power puncher, and not a boxer. Having only fought MMA, and never a professional boxing match. You can see why people did doubt him, as he entered the ring with the current greatest heavyweight boxer alive, for his boxing debut?! Whether or not he considers himself a stoic, he displays multiple characteristics of the most profo...
Rubin Carter, a top contender for the middleweight boxing title, at the height of his career was all of a sudden wrongly accused of being involved in the murder of three people in the mid-1960s. He went on trial, where he got a biased verdict, condemning him to three life sentences, totalling, up to 90 years in prison overall. A tragic incident for anyone to go through, but especially for Carter as he had just risen to success and fame, which was a reality, that had become a dream again overnight. As you can imagine, this was crippling. But he did not plan on taking this defeat anytime soon. He turned up to prison in an expensive, tailored suit, wearing a $5,000 diamond ring and a gold watch. Whilst waiting in line to be entered into the prison ecosystem, he requested to speak to someone in charge. Looking the Warden who came to meet him in the eye. He informed him and the guards, that he knew they had nothing to do with his injustice that had lead to him being put in jail, and i...