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alright first of all let me start off by saying I guarantee everything i type here is 100% true. I've never lied about anything on here but im sure this will seem like a lie especially to people who hate me like gbp. but **** it, you guys love boxing and so do I so im gonna tell you what happened to me yesterday!
aight, i was supposed to spar a tougher guy than the last guy i sparred. this guy cory, from new orleans. not sure of his record but i asked him to come in tommarrow since i didnt have a mouthpiece on monday, and he didn't show up yesterday, after I had butterflies all day long anticipating our sparring...cuz the guy hits pretty hard. Turns out the only other heavyweight there for me to spar was the toughest guy in the gym, the star of the gym
keenen hickman, 30-6, 2005 southern association champion. Now, I'm not sure exactly what that means but im guessing he's the best outta florida, louisiana, and mississippi. at least thats what I hope :-)...Anyway, my coach was like 'you gonna get in the ring with him' and i was nervous , but I hid the fear and just said 'aight' like it wasnt **** and started workin on my shadowboxing as to not enter the ring dry/cold/not warmed up
first thing I did when the bell rung was keep my distance and pack down his jab,feignt a right hand and jab to his body, then step off to my right away from his big right hand. This cat's pretty short about 6" but 230lbs and has lots of power, great punching form too. That's why I didn't stand in front of him even tho im 265lb 6 ft 4.
First of all let me explain somethin, i must be a natural to this sport because I felt like I did my homework on this guy. I was anticipating every single thing he was doing and moving away from it, countering with jabs when he'd come in shifting his weight towards me. I am being completely honest when I tell you that in two rounds of boxing this dude didn't catch me in the head one single time, the only shot he caught me with was a blocked straight right on my cheek, basically zero impact, and a straight right to my heart, and some body shots that didnt even hurt since i was moving away when he got off. It was like once I identified the angles the shots were coming from it made it SO EASY to just pack down his shots, or throw off his rhythm by stickin my glove out in anticipation of what he was about to throw, moving, then feignting with my right to make him think and coming with a big jab to his midsection, or if he's moving forward, straight to his face. I never practiced this move I kept doing but it involved me lunging forward with my head down and to the right, but I was safe because my lead left hand was in a motion of touching his left glove /shoulder and moving it so he couldnt get set to counter me. in this same motion I'd come forward with a HUGE right hook to his left oblique. I was only able to land this big shot once, after that I kept trying to do it he would slide off to his right, in fact he almost caught me with a big right hook counter to my jaw after i missed the right hook to his body, I **** you not I slipped that shot sooo barely I felt the glove graze my chin/mouth and said , 'Close one' with a smile as we kept sparrin. im a ****in natural i tell ya... every time i would **** up and miss with a big punch(which was rare since i never came forward with power punches, and just capitalized off his mistakes and picked angles with my best tool,the jab) id just move away/back up super quickly and keep my guard up and he wasnt able to do anythig..
im not playin, you shoulda seen some of the jabs i was catchin this cat with. his entire skull would jolt back when he would come in with his weight and id stick that full force jab out, ****ing larry holmes style. it was like he couldve gotten in on the inside and destroyed me but just a little bit of movement to my right and throwing a lightning jab at the right time prevented that ****, ya know?
and when the end of the round came and I was sorta tired, he pressured me and to deal with that I mixed up some feignts to scare him away so i could take a breath, since he respected the power in my right hand,and the left jab.. I mixed jabs in with the feingts, allowin me to not only steal his 'end of the round' opportunity from him, giving me the round, but give myself some wind.
The 2nd round went pretty much identically to the first one except I got tired as hell, but I coulda went a 3rd round. my stamina sucks and im a little overweight still. I really promise that the next time I spar I'm bringing a video camera because if you guys wouldve seen me in there workin him over picking him apart without takin a single shot you'd be proud...My coach definately was, considering that guy is his top fighter. 'You did damn good today, especially for a whiteboy' is what he told me...felt really good, i think i can really go far in this sport if I can handle the 05 southern champ without a single fight under my belt, im gonna dedicate myself to boxing 110% from now on, no smoking, im gonna focus, buckle down and really work hard......You'll see more of me in the future fellas.
aight, i was supposed to spar a tougher guy than the last guy i sparred. this guy cory, from new orleans. not sure of his record but i asked him to come in tommarrow since i didnt have a mouthpiece on monday, and he didn't show up yesterday, after I had butterflies all day long anticipating our sparring...cuz the guy hits pretty hard. Turns out the only other heavyweight there for me to spar was the toughest guy in the gym, the star of the gym
keenen hickman, 30-6, 2005 southern association champion. Now, I'm not sure exactly what that means but im guessing he's the best outta florida, louisiana, and mississippi. at least thats what I hope :-)...Anyway, my coach was like 'you gonna get in the ring with him' and i was nervous , but I hid the fear and just said 'aight' like it wasnt **** and started workin on my shadowboxing as to not enter the ring dry/cold/not warmed up
first thing I did when the bell rung was keep my distance and pack down his jab,feignt a right hand and jab to his body, then step off to my right away from his big right hand. This cat's pretty short about 6" but 230lbs and has lots of power, great punching form too. That's why I didn't stand in front of him even tho im 265lb 6 ft 4.
First of all let me explain somethin, i must be a natural to this sport because I felt like I did my homework on this guy. I was anticipating every single thing he was doing and moving away from it, countering with jabs when he'd come in shifting his weight towards me. I am being completely honest when I tell you that in two rounds of boxing this dude didn't catch me in the head one single time, the only shot he caught me with was a blocked straight right on my cheek, basically zero impact, and a straight right to my heart, and some body shots that didnt even hurt since i was moving away when he got off. It was like once I identified the angles the shots were coming from it made it SO EASY to just pack down his shots, or throw off his rhythm by stickin my glove out in anticipation of what he was about to throw, moving, then feignting with my right to make him think and coming with a big jab to his midsection, or if he's moving forward, straight to his face. I never practiced this move I kept doing but it involved me lunging forward with my head down and to the right, but I was safe because my lead left hand was in a motion of touching his left glove /shoulder and moving it so he couldnt get set to counter me. in this same motion I'd come forward with a HUGE right hook to his left oblique. I was only able to land this big shot once, after that I kept trying to do it he would slide off to his right, in fact he almost caught me with a big right hook counter to my jaw after i missed the right hook to his body, I **** you not I slipped that shot sooo barely I felt the glove graze my chin/mouth and said , 'Close one' with a smile as we kept sparrin. im a ****in natural i tell ya... every time i would **** up and miss with a big punch(which was rare since i never came forward with power punches, and just capitalized off his mistakes and picked angles with my best tool,the jab) id just move away/back up super quickly and keep my guard up and he wasnt able to do anythig..
im not playin, you shoulda seen some of the jabs i was catchin this cat with. his entire skull would jolt back when he would come in with his weight and id stick that full force jab out, ****ing larry holmes style. it was like he couldve gotten in on the inside and destroyed me but just a little bit of movement to my right and throwing a lightning jab at the right time prevented that ****, ya know?
and when the end of the round came and I was sorta tired, he pressured me and to deal with that I mixed up some feignts to scare him away so i could take a breath, since he respected the power in my right hand,and the left jab.. I mixed jabs in with the feingts, allowin me to not only steal his 'end of the round' opportunity from him, giving me the round, but give myself some wind.
The 2nd round went pretty much identically to the first one except I got tired as hell, but I coulda went a 3rd round. my stamina sucks and im a little overweight still. I really promise that the next time I spar I'm bringing a video camera because if you guys wouldve seen me in there workin him over picking him apart without takin a single shot you'd be proud...My coach definately was, considering that guy is his top fighter. 'You did damn good today, especially for a whiteboy' is what he told me...felt really good, i think i can really go far in this sport if I can handle the 05 southern champ without a single fight under my belt, im gonna dedicate myself to boxing 110% from now on, no smoking, im gonna focus, buckle down and really work hard......You'll see more of me in the future fellas.
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