Tune-Up Fighters: The bravest boxers of all?

[SnoopySmurf]

Hey...wanna finish this story or what?

My last fight was like that. I had been out of the ring for a good 4 to 5 years. No training or anything except the occasional shadowboxing in the back yard.

I had gotten a different used car, a descent job and had just moved into a descent house that I was renting. Everything was great.

Then the car breaks down, I end up losing my job as a direct result and rent is do on the house that Im renting. A month goes by and the landlord begins making threats.

Hey, call up the match maker. So I call him and he tells me that there is an undefeated fighter in another state that I should be able to handle with no problem at all if I was anything like I used to be. He asks, "Have you been training.... My response, "Sure Ive been training, I'm in great shape."

So we agreed on the terms of the contract and next thing I know we are driving out of state on the way to the fight. Driving there I knew that I was nothing like I had used to be. My timing was missing, my range was uncertain and the many cigarettes did not help the lungs. Driving down I knew that I had the knowledge and skill to win the fight, but would I have the wind to hear the last bell.

Midway through the ride to the fights I had ended the debating inside of mind. I was debating whether I should just jump on him and try to end it early or if I should box and move in hopes of conserving enough energy to finish the fight. The decision was made and written now in stone as we entered the arena.


Inside of the dressing room I could hear the roar of the crowd as I heard the distinctive sound of a body falling to the canvas. The crowd erupts in vial pleasure the arena begins to rock from the stomping feet. I raise from my chair, again stretching out my arms and kicking my legs to keep them loose.

As the level of noise in the crowd dissipates,the locker room door opens and through it walks the fighter, followed by his cornermen.

To be continued.................Rockin'

[RAESAAD]

How many times have you seen a guy act as a "tune up" for a fighter?

I don't even mean Andre Ward's last victim, more someone to face an established boxer who knows they have absolutely zero chance of winning... they're just there to give the boxer a couple of rounds and then get KTFO.

I once saw up-and-coming English cruiserweight David Haye (Who is a very, very hard hitter) take on someone who he called "his Christmas box". Basically the poor guy had to spend a night a couple of weeks before Christmas being heavily laid out in about two minutes.

It's an almost cruel situation. For Danny Williams's last bout they brought in some guy from Europe who had no experience, he was just there to get Danny a few rounds. Now, I know Danny isn't that regarded on here, but even his worst detractors would have to put him in the top 40 active heavyweights, right? Either way, he's got enough pop to put away an old Tyson. This poor guy was just practically some guy off the street, and he was so **** scared he came in dressed in a comedy wig and kept messing around.


But how brave would you have to be to get in a ring with someone leagues above your skill level, someone that you KNOW you have NO CHANCE WHATSOEVER to beat, and knowing there's at least a 70% chance you'll spend the evening getting knocked unconscious?

The guy who Andre Ward last beat up Glen Laplante is a bell hop in St.Petersburg where I live and is like 37 and just picked up boxing in the last couple of years as a hobby.....