Mr. Bramble, a heavy weight boxer by profession, like a walnut, was tough on the exterior and equally tender from within. He was a man who was deeply concerned about his family. A man who possessed an understanding of the fine complications of life, he with his wife decided to secrete the truth about his profession from Harold due to the possible negative effects that it could lay on his academics, damaging his confidence forever, by embarrassing him publically. Too protective for his young one, he was. A man who planned every happiness of the family in advance, like he decided the names for his soon to arrive child, one who admired legends and was a patron of art.
Although a persuasive man while with the world outside, at home he was a complete family man, submissive, understanding and caring for his wife. Mr. Bramble was too protective of his son and just the idea of how his professional image could hamper Harold’s delicate psychology made him decide to quit his profession before the due time. He decided not to take on the national fight with Jimmy Murphy. He was ready to break the trust of his trainer Jerry Fisher for the fear of how his little one will feel and the trauma he will go through. However, his fears turned out to be all imagined up and so when he saw, how his own son wanted his dad, “Young Porky”, to take it on, he got back at practice for his son’s happiness.
