I might be sparring Friday "13th" Ahunanya.

[Dye]

In a fight Tyson would have torn him apart but if I remember correctly, Tyson was talking about sparring him and winding up unconcious or blacking out.

Also I noticed the other day that Friday puts duct tape over the knuckles. I know in boxing we use athletic tape and it has to be an inch behind the knuckle, he had duct tape directly on the knuckles. Today is the day we might spar too.

whoa, what does that do exactly? duct tape on the knuckles?

[Animal Squabbs]

Well, I tried three times. Fridays manager told me to show up Tuesday at 6. I showed up and Friday didnt show til 7:30 and by then I was already almost done and they just wanted to spar some other guy for two rounds. The manager told me to come Wednesday night and he would tell me when to come on thursday. I went wednesday and they never showed. I went thursday night and friday wasnt there but his manager told me to come Friday at 1 for sure theyll be there, so I went friday at 1 and they never showed.

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Well, I tried three times. Fridays manager told me to show up Tuesday at 6. I showed up and Friday didnt show til 7:30 and by then I was already almost done and they just wanted to spar some other guy for two rounds. The manager told me to come Wednesday night and he would tell me when to come on thursday. I went wednesday and they never showed. I went thursday night and friday wasnt there but his manager told me to come Friday at 1 for sure theyll be there, so I went friday at 1 and they never showed.

sounds like he's ducking you ... he's ducking you!!!

damn coward! lol.

[Bigcat]

Friday in the Gym..

Friday Ahunanya is one of my closest friends, he only uses duct tape if he is keeping the thick foam pad in place over his knuckles.. the pad is over the knuckles, then tape keeps it in place.. Then he uses very oversized sparring gloves.. If you are not confident of sparring Friday then don't agree to because he can be a very industrial in the gym.. Mike Tyson was the one who said Friday knocked him unconcisous in preps for the Cliff Ettienne fight, i read about the incident in the newspaper first before Crocodile told me about it.. Friday thought the shot wasn't enough to knock Mike out, but Mike was adamant that it was a shot that caught him cold from Friday rendered him unconcious.. Mike collapsed from a shot but was also on Zoloft.. Mike was very complimentary towards Fridays power and if i can get the news paper article i will put in here on the forum.. I saw your sparring video and the guy with the blue gloves on in Las Vegas boxing was not in fact friday but Teke Oruh his friend, who sometimes spars with Friday and Sam Peter.. Good luck with your sparring and i will say hi if i see you in Toccos or Las Vegas Boxing anytime soon, give my love to Merqui and Kelcie next time you are in the Gym.. if you want to spar with Friday i will phone either Friday or Luis Tapia to set it up if you really want.. Be good friend. Peace..

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Friday Ahunanya is one of my closest friends, he only uses duct tape if he is keeping the thick foam pad in place over his knuckles.. the pad is over the knuckles, then tape keeps it in place.. Then he uses very oversized sparring gloves.. If you are not confident of sparring Friday then don't agree to because he can be a very industrial in the gym.. Mike Tyson was the one who said Friday knocked him unconcisous in preps for the Cliff Ettienne fight, i read about the incident in the newspaper first before Crocodile told me about it.. Friday thought the shot wasn't enough to knock Mike out, but Mike was adamant that it was a shot that caught him cold from Friday rendered him unconcious.. Mike collapsed from a shot but was also on Zoloft.. Mike was very complimentary towards Fridays power and if i can get the news paper article i will put in here on the forum.. I saw your sparring video and the guy with the blue gloves on in Las Vegas boxing was not in fact friday but Teke Oruh his friend, who sometimes spars with Friday and Sam Peter.. Good luck with your sparring and i will say hi if i see you in Toccos or Las Vegas Boxing anytime soon, give my love to Merqui and Kelcie next time you are in the Gym.. if you want to spar with Friday i will phone either Friday or Luis Tapia to set it up if you really want.. Be good friend. Peace..

Ho ho ho... i think we've found accusations of Animal Squabbs being one for telling a few porky pies.

[Evil_Meat]

ive always thought u were so lucky to train around pros. Ive only trained with one pro and loved sparring him. Sometimes i could clearly the win the first round but the amount of effort that took is rediculous and i could only do it because the pro is smaller than me

[dfwtx]

sparring pros is great if they're nice guys and not trying to knock your head off, ive sparred a pro featherweight and since im about 175 he went all the way which i didnt mind haha, but i spar very regularly againt a welterweight pro and he kinda tries to teach me while were in there and throws a lot of speed combos. just make sure to evade his big shots and keep some distance if there is this much of a power difference.

[Bigcat]

Friday is a former cheif sparring partnerto both Klitschckos, Rahman, Lyachovich, Chagaev, Lewis and Tyson as well as everyday sparring partner to a million others Sam Peter being a regular.. Friday is the only man i ever saw knock Chagaev off his feet in sparring at Toccos gym several years ago.. The only man i ever saw get Fridays proper attenton in a fight was Povetkin.. That cat is a bit special.. I worked Fridays corner in Mannheim Germany for that one and it was a hard job finding Povetkin with clean shots , he is a masterful boxer.. far better than many realise..

God Bless..

[potatoes]

You guys should know who he is if you watch boxing. Hes the big african heavyweight, hes 22-5-2 and hes fought Dominick Guinn, Sergei Lyakovich, Terrance Lewis, Lance Whitaker, Taurus Sykes, Sultan Ibragimov etc etc and hes got a fight coming up with Sedrick Fields. I havent even had an amateur fight yet.

He trains at my gym and his manager asked me the other day to spar with him, I said yeah and the manager said to come the next day (yesterday) at 6, I came at 6 but they didnt get to the gym 7:30 and by then I was almsot ready to leave. One trainer was sayin I shouldnt do it cause he says Friday doesnt go easy in sparring and it seems he thinks Friday is gonna kill me. I remember Mike Tyson sayin Friday knocked him out sparring once. The manager asked me again though and said we could spar Thursday.

Im still overweight and dont have a trainer. Im training myself and dropped from 300 to 240 and I plan on getting to under 200 to fight. Im not scared of anything so I want to do it plus it will give me experience sparring someone like him when I havent even had an amateur fight yet. If this goes down Ill try and get it filmed, and I think I will have had the best sparring partner out of everybody here.

So Friday is training for an upcoming big fight and they are asking you to be his sparring partner? Presumably they know that you have never had an amateur fight. The question is why are they asking a novice to face a seasoned professional? I don't know the answer, but it all seems rather su****ious to me. If you don't mind getting your head punched in, then by all means accept. Will you learn anything? Probably not. Learning to box is a long and slow process. Trying to speed it up doesn't usually work unless you have a lot of talent.

[Bigcat]

No amateur experience , really.. You have no place in the same ring as Friday.. Friday has fought some of the most ferocious fighters on the planet and given them all they could handle...

Luis must have been joking when he asked you to spar Friday.. did they offer you cash for your time... I didn't think so...

Do so at your own risk.. You are light years away from sparring in that class..

God bless.. Take your elevation in the game more slowly and carefully..

Don't rush anything.. it is the fast track to hurting your development..

peace...