There is something that is prevalent in the sports world, and it is present in all types of sports activities. That is the fact that games and competitions are worn psychologically. Yes, that is the reason why you will see a lot of sports teams employing psychologist to organize sessions for them before they get into tournaments. This is meant to prop them and get them psychologically ready for the sports exercises. That is also why the best fight odds will definitely be those odds that recognize the psychological balance and preparedness of the sportsmen and women.
However, people involved in sports activities have realized the importance of being psychologically ready or psychologically down before games. So, they even go as far as not only getting themselves psychologically ready for the games, but also to ensure that their opponents are psychologically disoriented. So, we can effectively say that the mind games as it is popularly known in football have also become an active and very effective part of the competitions.
That is why when the football coaches grant interviews before football games, they tend to find ways of transferring the entire pressure to the coaches and players of the opposing team. It is the same way boxers will do a lot of funny things and say a lot of demeaning or annoying things to each other. This is done to get on their nerves and push them off balance before the games. There is no clear mapped way of fighting this war. So, every player or sports personality tries to fight it as he or her wishes. One of the ways we have witnessed in the recent past includes extending a tricky hand of friendship before the games, even when it is all for the show aspect of it. But one thing is sure, the exact effect of this on the outcome of the games cannot be rightly determined. So, there are no boxing betting tips that hinges on mind games, no matter how they are played.
We all can recall the incident between Gary 'Spike' O'Sullivan and Chris Eubank Jnr. It was 2015 and the two boxers were getting ready for their contest. However, in one of the conferences, Gary 'Spike' O'Sullivan attempted to plant a kiss on the lips of Chris Eubank Jnr. This led to a feud, as the people on the camp of Eubank took it very seriously.
A similar thing happened on the ring between Yoshihiro Nakao and Heath Herring some time ago. While the referee was instructing the two of them, they got closer to each other, and just within split seconds, Nakao kissed Herring. Herring reacted by knocking him out with a right hook, and this led to the fight getting a no contest ruling.
Such has happened again. This time, it was between two female boxers. Of course, we understand that it is easy for women to exchange such affections without people asking questions. But this one was ‘one too many’.
It was witnessed during a press conference in a boxing event between Cecilia Braekhus and the Swedish boxer that was challenging her, named Mikaela Lauren. It would be recalled that the two have met before, but it was Braekhus who came out victorious. Through her career she has done 32 fights and won all of them. She is among the only four boxers to ever hold the four belts in a division at the same time. However, Lauren, who is actually a smaller opponent, needed something to help water down this colossus that she was about to face. So, she thought the best way to do this was by planting a kiss on her lips when they stood face to face during the faceoff.
While Braekhus just laughed it off and moved away, it seemed like a classical mind game. Did it improve Lauren’s chances against Braekhus. In the end, it did not, as Braekhus went on to score another TKO victory over the challenger, this time one round sooner than their first encounter. One could say that perhaps that kiss worked against Lauren, motivating Braekhus to finish the job quicker and even better than before.