Text / Wu Shiyuan
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James Bullock was a famous American boxer in the 1930s. He once maintained a complete victory in more than 80 professional matches. He was known as "Bergen's Bull" and "New Jersey's Pride".
However, during his boxing career, he was in desperation due to the Great Depression of the American industry, bankruptcy, injuries, negative competitions, and his boxing license was revoked. His life with his family was on the verge of collapse.
Later, relying on his responsibility to his family and his strong belief, he re-entered the boxing arena and became the heavyweight champion. His experience was called by the media as one of the most exciting legends in the history of the United States.
The film "The Iron Fist" is based on the legendary experience of James Bullock.
Before the American Industrial Depression, James Bullock was a boxing champion who used his fists to create a prosperous life for his family. The sudden Great Depression ruined it all, the taxi company he invested in went bankrupt, his wealth shrank sharply, and his family life began to struggle.
To make matters worse, he broke his right hand during the match, which he hid from the Boxing Association in order to continue to earn money from boxing. In a game, Bullock used a passive game method of constantly hugging his opponent in order to protect his fractured right hand, which caused strong dissatisfaction from the audience, and the referee on duty had to interrupt the game.
The boxing association boss was very angry about this, and he disregarded Bullock's pleas and the intercession of his agent Joe, and revoked Bullock's boxing license.
With the loss of their most important source of income, the Bullock family's life was completely in jeopardy.
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After the Great Depression, the Bullock family began to make ends meet as the taxi company they invested in went bankrupt. In addition to continuing the boxing match, Bullock also needs to go to the dock frequently to work with a large number of unemployed workers, but even with the government relief, it cannot guarantee three meals a day for a family of five.
One morning, after his daughter had eaten a piece of meat that her mother had given her, she still wanted it. Brock saw it, and he started to make up a story, saying that he had a dream last night, dreaming that he and a group of friends were going to a fancy restaurant for dinner. , He ate a very thick steak, a large plate of potatoes, and three sticks of ice cream. Now his stomach is still full and he can't eat anything.
With that said, Brock poured his piece of meat into his daughter's plate, and he asked her daughter, "Can you help me destroy it?"
The wife saw it. She felt sorry for her husband and asked her daughter to leave some for her father. Brock stopped his wife and went out to find work on an empty stomach.
He didn't let his daughter eat this piece of meat in the same way that his father gave her his breakfast, but he kept the innocence of his imagination for his daughter.
This is a father's top-level enrichment for his daughter.
In the evening, Brock, who had been out for a day without finding work, returned home and learned from his daughter and wife that his son had stolen a sausage from the butcher's shop. He didn't say a word, and asked his son to follow him with the sausage. When he arrived at the butcher's shop, he asked his son to return the sausage and apologized to the boss.
Walking out of the butcher's shop, Bullock told his son, "You're not wrong. Our family's life is really bad right now, but there are many people who are worse off than us."
Then Bullock bent down and continued: "Because life is hard, you can take things that don't belong to you? That's stealing! You know? We never steal."
Bullock didn't blame his son, he taught his son a lesson by precept and example. No one can guarantee whether his son will follow the right path in the future, but at least Brock has cut off the N possibilities for him to go astray in the future.
This is a father's best support for his son.
Life suddenly got harder after getting his boxing license revoked. Faced with such a desperate situation, the wife once discussed with Brock that she wanted to send the child to her sister's house for a period of time, so that she could find some work to relieve him of the pressure.
Bullock firmly disagreed with the separation of the family. He asked his wife to help him use black shoe polish to blacken the white gauze wrapped around his broken hand, so that it would not be found in his sleeve, and he could continue to the dock. Find a job.
In Bullock's value system, family comes first. No matter how difficult life is, family members must be together. At the door of the butcher's shop, he promised his sons that he would never send them away at any time, and he has been creating and maintaining such a family style.
However, working on the pier alone cannot solve the cruel reality that the family cannot open the pot. In the end, they could not even pay the electricity bill and were cut off by the power supply company. Because they couldn't keep warm, the two children caught a cold. In desperation, the wife sent them to their sister and father respectively to live there without discussing with Brock.
When Brock saw this after returning home, he had a fight with his wife. This touched the bottom line of his family being together forever. If he acquiesced to his wife's actions, he would betray his promise to his son, and the family tradition he maintained would become a gust of wind.
But in the face of the bleak situation, family style and fate, there is always a compromise to be made.
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Either give up the family tradition and accept the fate, or challenge the fate to maintain the family tradition. Bullock chose the latter. In order to pay the electricity bill and let the power company restore the power supply so that the child can be brought back, he went to the relief agency to get relief money again, but he still couldn't make up the money to pay the electricity bill.
In desperation, Bullock walked into a bar where the boxing world often gathers, and confessed his current situation to people he worked with or knew in the past, hoping to get their help to tide over the difficulties.
Broker Joe was also inside, and he didn't expect Bullock to end up in this situation. Facing Brock with tears in his eyes and a faceless face to see him, he looked at him with empathy and helped Brock gather enough money to pay off the electricity bill.
The electricity was turned on again in the house, and the children were reconnected. Looking at the three joyful children, Brock was relieved, but he couldn't hide the anxiety in his eyes. He didn't know which would come first tomorrow or if the power was cut off again.
It is said that the worst days are over, and the rest is good luck. Sometimes I think this is the case. A few days later, the agent Joe came to the door, and he temporarily pulled a training game for Brock.
In this game, Bullock unexpectedly won the $123 prize. He told Joe that he had won the game by luck, but Joe interrupted him and said, "Luck? It's been a long time since you, brother."
It's true that Bullock has not had luck for a long time, but what makes Joe awe-inspiring is that no matter how bad luck is, Bullock has always been firm in the family tradition of being together as a family. He decided to continue helping Bullock.
Good family style brings good luck, and this is true for Bullock.
After the fight, Joe first got his Boxing Association job done, allowing Bullock to return to training for a fee. Next was arranging the match. He used his skills to persuade the boss of the Boxing Association to allow Bullock to continue to have matches.
There are games to play, Brock can have income.
Obviously, between the family wind and fate, fate made a compromise, it took away the bad luck and let Brock's life begin to move in the direction of good luck.
Another game, Bullock won again; another game, he won again.
It's not just luck, it's a strong belief supporting Bullock to win. In the words of the live commentator: "He showed unparalleled determination to win."
Bullock's wins were all heavyweight seeds, which made him famous again, and the media was full of his news. He became an inspirational role model, bringing hope and courage to many people who were at a low ebb in their lives at that time.
According to the arrangement of the game, at this time it is time for the finals. Bullock will challenge Bell, the champion of the previous year. This is a boxer who punched several opponents directly on the boxing ring.
The boss of the boxing association became afraid at this time. In case Brock was also killed on the stage, with his current popularity, he was worried that he would become the target of attack. So he called Bullock and his agent Joe, trying to convince them to give up.
Of course Bullock did not give up. After listening to everyone's opinions, he carefully reviewed the video of Bell killing his opponent.
He is going to win! His family needs him to win.
The process was thrilling, but it turned out that Bullock really won! He became the new world heavyweight champion.
Since then, invitations to various competitions and events have followed, and Bullock has once again reached the pinnacle of his life. Later, he used the bonus and other income to buy the wharf where he worked, and also invested in the construction of the Valazzano Bridge.
He bought a large house in New Jersey, where he and his wife raised three children until they reached their own stage of life, where he and his wife lived for the rest of their lives. Their family style has always been praised by people.
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