The notion of struggle has several uses. The term, from the Latin word lucta , can be used in reference to a combat sport in which each fighter tries to knock down his opponent.
In wrestling, therefore, athletes resort to various techniques and keys to make their opponent fall to the ground. There are numerous varieties of this sporting discipline, each with its own particular rules.
Greco-Roman wrestling and Olympic wrestling are two of the most important wrestling sports. Also very popular is the show known as professional wrestling , which combines sports with choreography and acting.
Professional wrestling is a representation of "real" hand-to-hand combat. Athletes embody characters that are based on fictional stories: some are heroes and others are villains .
In the field of video games , fighting is a genre that has been very popular since the early 90s, when some of the titles appeared that laid the foundations for what we know today. Among the most notable of all time are Street Fighter , Mortal Kombat , Super Smash Bros. , Tekken , The King of Fighters , Killer Instinct , Virtua Fighter , and Soulcalibur .
Although the list could go on, these are some of the ones that differ the most from the competition , in several aspects. Take for example Mortal Kombat , which debuted in the year 1992 and caught the public's attention with its realistic graphics. The secret of their appearance is that their characters were not drawn but created through photographic capture of costumed actors doing all the necessary poses for their corresponding movements.
One of Mortal Kombat 's eternal opponents has always been Street Fighter , a title that has always been a paradigm of precision in controls and the high competitive level that its fans can achieve with dedication. Its graphics were drawn with pixels for the first few years, until it finally reached the 3D era, just like Mortal Kombat and all the others. However, they continue to differ in many aspects, both in style and movements, the rhythm of the fight and the types of characters.
Another fighting game that revolutionized the market is Super Smash Bros .. Its first title appeared in 1999 on the Nintendo 64 console, offering a very particular experience: controls much easier to learn than those of the competition, and a crazy and unique roster of characters consisting of the company's heroes and villains. Japanese.
In a broad sense, the concept of fight is used to refer to any type of dispute , confrontation or fight . A fight can be a quarrel , a battle , a war , etc. For example: "The fight between supporters of both teams ended with twenty people injured," "Several passengers got into a fight in the middle of the airport."
Fight is also the resistance in the face of an offensive and the effort made to achieve a goal : "The fight of the German team was successful until the first goal of the Italians: from then on, the game had a clear dominator" , "Let's go to present a fight in Congress to prevent the approval of this disastrous law for workers" , "Faced with the foreign invasion, the local residents fought, but ended up surrendering."
In everyday life, we can also use this term figuratively to represent the great effort involved in working and maintaining a home, studying hard to get good grades or preparing to advance within a company, among many other possibilities.