Your point is a perfectly valid one. Reading what I said back, it did come off a little unbalanced. I guess what I was trying to say was more along the lines of emotional investment. You say that someone should be devoid of emotion and on some levels that is true. You don't want to cut your brain out of the mix, you gotta think to win no matter how strong or fast you are. An example of the emotional investment at work would be....Buster Douglas vs. Mike Tyson. Sure tyson was out of shape and lazy in the fight, but douglas wasn't exactly a legendary fighter or anything. If you've seen some of his fights you'd know he was never hungry enough. But for the fight with tyson, his mom had died a few weeks before the bout and he was very close to her. He dedicated the fight to her memory and he fought like a completely different guy. After the fight was over and he was no longer emotionally invested in winning, he fights Holyfield and gets KO'd in the 3rd. So for the fight with tyson he wasn't in some blind rage "seeing red" but he used his emotion in combination with what he had been trained and it worked. Hopefully this time my comment is a little less, movie boxer and a little more understandable.