Elijah Oxford

  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...

  Nietzsche is considered to be one of the greatest and most daring philosophers of all time, and for good reason. His work changed philosophy forever, and improved the lives of millions, with his ideas aiming to re-evaluate all values. One of which, outlined the process on how to reach a “superhuman” state, which is the most ideal way for someone to live, putting you above social norms and constraints that are placed onto us by the modern world. Whilst also famously stating that “God is dead”, and we are the ones that have killed him. To better understand these philosophies, we must first start at the beginning. Nietzsche lived for the most part, a lonely and depressive life, being born in the year 1844, into a family devoted to Christianity. A faith that he soon began to question as he grew up due to many tragic events unfolding in his life. His father, a man committed to praising God, got diagnosed with a terminal brain disease, causing him to suffer in pain for a year, after w...