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"CHAPTER FOLLOW UP FOR YOU (unedited)
I had always imagined my first fight in Las Vegas would see me in a situation like I assumed the guys I saw on TV boxing out there were in. You know, staying at Caesar's Palace or some other top flight hotel. Getting a Limo to wherever they needed to go. Sitting at the press conference Dais, fielding questions from the press. Being interviewed on local TV, getting recognized all over Vegas before the fight. Seeing their face on posters around the strip and generally being treated like a championship caliber boxer. Like a star. I expected that and I expected a tough fight, too, and I trained accordingly, I really did. I punished myself in the gym and on the road each day but, at the same time, I had no knowledge on how to lose weight properly and I really messed my body up with my chosen weight loss methods. I also factor in the "big fight" atmosphere that surrounded the fight. This show was about as big as you can get in this game. If it affected mentally I'm not sure. I have to assume that it was a combination of both aspects that led to me tensing up more than usual in there. It was like I saw the openings I needed but I couldn't pull the trigger. I wanted badly to take it to him, especially in the later rounds, but it was hard to get off. You hear that a lot in boxing- "I just couldn't get off" - and this fight showed me exactly what that means. When a boxer says that after a fight, trust me, it is not an excuse. It is a reason. It happens. You want to punch and you see the openings and you are in shape to do so but you just don't. And nobody know for sure why not.
If you want to be in this business you CANNOT let the people running it take advantage of you. And when you get your team together to make a serious run at professional glory and riches you need people that are experienced in the game. You need wolves and snakes to deal with wolves and snakes. You need people that are in the game of boxing and have the know-how to deal properly with the powers that be. It's a certain language that not every guy with a simple manager's license can speak and understand. I learned the hard way.
When you see two guys fight it out in the ring all that you are actually seeing is the fight. You don't see the weeks and weeks of mental preparation. You don't see the good and bad things that have happened to the boxer in the weeks leading up to the fight. You don't see inside his mind, into his fears and hopes and apprehensions. I will give you some stories of fights that I had as a pro. The average fan, the person that never fought before, really needs to see what it is that goes on before, during and after a professional boxing match. It is not only all about what goes down on the night of the fight, trust me.
"CHAPTER FOLLOW UP FOR YOU (unedited)
I had always imagined my first fight in Las Vegas would see me in a situation like I assumed the guys I saw on TV boxing out there were in. You know, staying at Caesar's Palace or some other top flight hotel. Getting a Limo to wherever they needed to go. Sitting at the press conference Dais, fielding questions from the press. Being interviewed on local TV, getting recognized all over Vegas before the fight. Seeing their face on posters around the strip and generally being treated like a championship caliber boxer. Like a star. I expected that and I expected a tough fight, too, and I trained accordingly, I really did. I punished myself in the gym and on the road each day but, at the same time, I had no knowledge on how to lose weight properly and I really messed my body up with my chosen weight loss methods. I also factor in the "big fight" atmosphere that surrounded the fight. This show was about as big as you can get in this game. If it affected mentally I'm not sure. I have to assume that it was a combination of both aspects that led to me tensing up more than usual in there. It was like I saw the openings I needed but I couldn't pull the trigger. I wanted badly to take it to him, especially in the later rounds, but it was hard to get off. You hear that a lot in boxing- "I just couldn't get off" - and this fight showed me exactly what that means. When a boxer says that after a fight, trust me, it is not an excuse. It is a reason. It happens. You want to punch and you see the openings and you are in shape to do so but you just don't. And nobody know for sure why not.
If you want to be in this business you CANNOT let the people running it take advantage of you. And when you get your team together to make a serious run at professional glory and riches you need people that are experienced in the game. You need wolves and snakes to deal with wolves and snakes. You need people that are in the game of boxing and have the know-how to deal properly with the powers that be. It's a certain language that not every guy with a simple manager's license can speak and understand. I learned the hard way.
When you see two guys fight it out in the ring all that you are actually seeing is the fight. You don't see the weeks and weeks of mental preparation. You don't see the good and bad things that have happened to the boxer in the weeks leading up to the fight. You don't see inside his mind, into his fears and hopes and apprehensions. I will give you some stories of fights that I had as a pro. The average fan, the person that never fought before, really needs to see what it is that goes on before, during and after a professional boxing match. It is not only all about what goes down on the night of the fight, trust me.
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