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LOSE YOURSELF...
"Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity
to seize everything you ever wanted- one moment
Would you capture it... or just let it slip?
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti
He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready
to drop bombs,
but he keeps on forgetting what he wrote down,
the whole crowd goes so loud
He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out"
The words to that rap song, Lose Yourself by Eminem, could have easily written for a professional boxer as easily as they were for a rapper. Actually, it is probably a thing where anybody that has to get up on stage (or in a ring or on a field) to do their thing for money or trophies can relate to them and, as a result, I totally feel and understand why so many boxers choose that song as their ring walk music.
Sometimes a fighter will possess skills that he never uses, power that never shows itself and ring generalship that sputters when called upon under the hot lights of live competition and it's funny in a way but if I wanted to describe the feeling to you in a way that you might understand or relate to if you aren't a fighter then I might point to a song by Eminem that came out a few years ago that was the theme song for his movie "Eight Mile," the story of an unknown rapper who is trying to come up in the game but among other things has a moment early on when he hits the big stage for his big opportunity but when it comes time to show the skills that all his friends brag about to other people...he chokes. he's up on that stage and the words just wont come out. They come out like flowing water when he's alone in his room or with his friends in the car and maybe if he's on a smaller stage but here on this big stage with all the important people watching he just cant find the words, his mind goes black. The movie ends up with him getting one more chance at the end, under even more intense circumstances and this time, and maybe through gained experience or maybe because he just stopped trying so hard, he ends up putting it all together.
Fighters definitely understand this song and I know this because I have seen more of them than I can remember who chose this song as the music that accompanies them to the ring on fight night and, actually, if I was still fighting for money I would probably choose it, too.
"Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity
to seize everything you ever wanted- one moment
Would you capture it... or just let it slip?
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti
He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready
to drop bombs,
but he keeps on forgetting what he wrote down,
the whole crowd goes so loud
He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out"
The words to that rap song, Lose Yourself by Eminem, could have easily written for a professional boxer as easily as they were for a rapper. Actually, it is probably a thing where anybody that has to get up on stage (or in a ring or on a field) to do their thing for money or trophies can relate to them and, as a result, I totally feel and understand why so many boxers choose that song as their ring walk music.
Sometimes a fighter will possess skills that he never uses, power that never shows itself and ring generalship that sputters when called upon under the hot lights of live competition and it's funny in a way but if I wanted to describe the feeling to you in a way that you might understand or relate to if you aren't a fighter then I might point to a song by Eminem that came out a few years ago that was the theme song for his movie "Eight Mile," the story of an unknown rapper who is trying to come up in the game but among other things has a moment early on when he hits the big stage for his big opportunity but when it comes time to show the skills that all his friends brag about to other people...he chokes. he's up on that stage and the words just wont come out. They come out like flowing water when he's alone in his room or with his friends in the car and maybe if he's on a smaller stage but here on this big stage with all the important people watching he just cant find the words, his mind goes black. The movie ends up with him getting one more chance at the end, under even more intense circumstances and this time, and maybe through gained experience or maybe because he just stopped trying so hard, he ends up putting it all together.
Fighters definitely understand this song and I know this because I have seen more of them than I can remember who chose this song as the music that accompanies them to the ring on fight night and, actually, if I was still fighting for money I would probably choose it, too.
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