Three primary colors -- red, blue, and yellow – combine here to express the colorful nature of boxing itself. The boxer is relaxed as he methodically wraps his fist in brilliant red tape, echoing the red trunks he wears here. The yellow waistband repeats the yellow of the old walls surrounding the ring. Highlights play across his rippling muscles. One must be very strong to be a boxer, and this portrait is an image of a powerful man.