Singapore one day before WWCBA Asia Cup 2009
With flight SQ1 departing at 8am this morning I arrived relatively well rested around lunch time at the Swissotel Stamford where the Hong Kong Dragons are housed this weekend. The rest of the team will take the same flight tomorrow morning. I took the opportunity to have a look at the event site, right across Swissotel.
At the ends of the enormous grass field of the Padang the tent is being set up.
Taking this picture, in an intense heat, I started to get a feeling of how hot it must have been during the 14 rounds in the Thrilla of Manila in 1975 between Ali and Frazier. It is good to keep that fight in mind. Boxers who did not want to give up, and when Ali wanted to give up, Frazier’s corner was faster. But too late in many ways; the boxers had punched the health out of one another. In the end there was no winner, champion. Keep this in mind.
But not too long, because this is the last night this cup is on Singapore soil: we are going to bring it home!
We are the champions, weeee are the champions …
