She's losing badly, but it's like a fighter who goes into the ring and gets knocked out. The first thing he says is, I want a rematch. I want to rematch.
The gangster struggling with tuberculosis in Drunken Angel really is struggling with his own self-image as a tough guy, as someone who doesn't let himself be knocked down by anything.
Fighting with one arm now, Steve took some punches, but he gave out a lot more, and by the time he'd managed to yank his arm free, Rumlow was the only S.T.R.I.K.E. commando left.