Thank you, I am so ****ing happy I cant even describe how I feel right now, this kid though he started to fall into that sloppy **** he made one correction and it paid off for him, he trained his ass off each and every day and now he has learned some very important lessons, you cant look for the knock out and you have to be paitent you cant take short cuts on your road work he was six pounds lighter for this fight (his 2nd) than he was for his last fight of which he was winning but ran out of gas. Thank you so much all of you, honestly i had the pre fight jitters myself I actually had to have my wife keep him at our friends home until the Dr showed up for the fight I was getting pretty cranky myself. it all paid off in the end though.:bbb
Looks like the kid learned from that earlier loss, which is a good sign. It's also a good sign that he took his conditioning seriously and was six pounds lighter for this bout. Keep up the good work. Not being a trainer myself, I can't imagine what it must be like to watch a fighter I've trained step into the ring.
its hard, especially when you have worked with them for 18 months, you get to know them, their family, infact three days before the fight I met his grandparents his grandfather was telling me that this isnt the life he wanted his grandson to have he wants him in school, which he is and education is first Boxing does not promise anybody anything. But it made it harder on me to have that kind of added pressure before the fight from his entire family.
Here is the fight if some of you didnt make it to the training forum yet. http://youtube.com/watch?v=M4DETs1roMw Do not blink!! BTW, The other guys parents were sitting in front of my wife as she was taping, you can see his mother get out of her seat and leave his father is in a light blue shirt getting up to tape the fight himself.
Thanks and there should be, Today when he comes back to the gym I am going to let him know that his next fight is not going to be as easy, its going to be a war, and if he isnt ready he will be the one knocked out. I dont want this to go to his head, yes I want him to feel good about himself but I want him to realize that there is going to be a man in front of him that knows how to box, this kid looked to knock my kid out and you know what happens when you do that.
Right on!! Not only might they box better, but he's gonna run across another Pit Bull a long the way that will have REAL HEART and keep coming, not wanting to quit once tagged.Id also keep stressing the conditioning as well, because that's what will help carry him through, when the going does get tough. You and I both know that no matter who you are, it will! If you keep climbing through those ropes. Keep up the good work, my man:good :bbb :bbb
There is no way that I am going to allow him to let this get to his head, I mean of course it will it has to, but I will stress to him every day that he will be in a dog fight the next time out, he loves it that way in the gym though, he prefers a war, he gets pissed when sparring partners start to fold, so I am planning on keeping him that way, it just works for him, I have also figured him out, the way he works mentally. The last fight, I stayed calm spoke normally, that didnt work, all through training all through sparring, I basicly had to tell him, to go out there and work his ****ing ass off, or there isnt going to be a fight. he is that kind of fighter you have to pump him up. The man who helped me assist, is his old Baseball coach from when he was 13 he told me that is the way I had to do it when he played baseball, this trainer Joe is from Hollenback boxing and he currently trains Angel Bojado the little brother of Fransico Bojado, he won his fight just before ours by way of second round TKO.
He's got nothing on Charlie. Charlie would take that guy within 5 seconds. You do know he's got 700 lbs in his punches.