The language of fighting in Manuel Alcántara’s boxing reporting

Abstract

This article discusses competition (agôn, ̛αγών) as a poetic dominant theme in a sample of boxing chronicles and how, through competition language, it is projected in the rhetorical structure of the artistically coded text. Boxing reporting by a poet such as Manuel Alcantara becomes an impressive journalistic text where the creative elements are alternated with those of the author's literary culture and those purely informative.