Who has had fights?

2 Amateur. 1 won lost 1. At this point I realised I wasnt very good, and didnt really enjoy being hit in the face repeatedly and that it was way more fun to watch other people who were better than me getting hit in the face instead.

 

The guys who I remember that have fought amateur and or pro are, TSFO, Bobby, T.C.W, SuperFlySam, I think Marcus had a fight or two as well, Oztriker in his younger army days got up to a few things as well. Lot of guys have done boxing or some martial art/sparring as well.

 

Ive had only 16 amatuer fights since I started boxing at 16.

Winning 9.

Tonnes of sparring, the odd fight on the street. But my actual gym boxing training has been pretty stop-start, for various reasons.

Ive started training a lot harder on the weights and doing road & bag work with my brother in the last two months. Considering getting back into the gym over the summer break maybe having another fight towards the end.
Got a long way to go to get into decent shape though.

 

I boxed for a couple years and did martial arts before that for 2 years. The martial arts that I did required you to fight MMA style with full contact and small gloves for grading purposes which I did against probably 6-8 different guys. I have sparred plenty of times with some good amatuer fighters, but have never fought, mainly because I have no gyms where I live, and because of my work I get to the gym to late to get the consistent sparring that I would need to fight. I am still keen though, and have found an MMA gym near by which apparnetly trains hours that would be more suitable for me. Boxing gyms always train too early, and being that I work white collar it is almost impossible for me to make it on time. I am working on getting some footage together probably in the next couple of days of hopefully some sparring or bag work or something to post on here anyway.

 

MSTR what time is too early for you?
My gym runs like this. (which i think is too late!!)

Boxing Mon.Wed.Fri. Starts 7pm - 8:45pm ($5)

Muay Thai Tues.Thurs 7pm - 8:30pm ($8)


I only go once a week , mainly to Muay Thai :bbb

 

I can only get there at 6 o'clock earliest. Which most gyms is too late to train, and definitely to late to get good sparring. Pisses me off. Anyway, I think my style is much more suited to MMA. I fight very aggressive, and like to rely on my speed and power. I am starting to late to really become a boxer, but because I already know the stand up game to a degree, and the basics of BJJ, if i can work on my wrestling I think I could compete in MMA within a couple years. Because it is a newer sport, i could do so pretty confidently, where as in boxing I would be taking on guys 10 times more experienced. I think I could get a few amatuer wins in boxing, but once I stepped it up the experience factor would be my downfall. Anyway like I said, I will post a vid and get your opinions.

 

MSTR
How much BJJ do you do??
Whats it like??

I was looking into that stuff, as its seems to be a very important part of the best MMA fighters styles. And there is a guy not far from me who teaches it.

I did a year of Tae Kwon Do when I was younger, dont waste your time with that stuff everyone, they charge through the roof and all you do is practice the same moves whilst the black belts much around and do their own ****.
I actually got in trouble for moving out of the way of a kick and making a more senior guy look stupid. Because you had do non-contact sparring in straight lines but the senior guys would always hit you a little, and I thought if I move a little to the left I could actually make him miss and counter him. Anyways I did it once and he cracked the shits and clearly tried to kick me hard, so I simply moved and he fell over. Only stayed one month after that, didnt learn anything because your not really getting into real fighting situations.
It is really good for beginners though.

 

I don't do it anymore, and I only did it to a basic level. I knew how to hold guard, how to throw someone off in mount, how to guilatine(spelling) choke someone, how to do a couple other chokes and arm locks and a basic arm bar. Enough to beat someone who doesn't know what they are doing. I've only ever had to use it once. I had a guy a few months back start me at a servo after a big night out. I walked from a mates place in with no shirt on and he had a go because he thought I was trying to be a tough c*nt or something. Walked up with his mate and yelled and screamed at me for like 2 minutes while i was waiting in line. Eventually I got fed up and blew him a couple kisses and he really got fired up. I walked outside and he tried to put one on me but I got off first with a lead right hand. Hit him smack bang on the nose but didn't KO him.

 

He came back swinging hard and I stayed tight and got a couple ripper uppercuts on him that rocked him. He was bigger then me so he grabbed me and tried to throw me into a wall but i turned him around and he went head first into it. It got pretty ugly in the grapple and he tried to claw my eyes, so I threw him to the ground. We struggled for a bit but because he had the weight he got on top of me. Using my BJJ I threw him straight off with my hips and laid about 3 perfect uppercuts into his face. He tried to crawl away so I kept hitting him and then wrapped a figure four arm choke around his throat and put him into dreamland. We both had a mate with us and his mate said he had obviously had enough. The c*nt lost about 2 litres of blood no joke. Had a massive split across his head from the wall, broken nose and busted mouth. There was so much blood it was just gushing out all over the pavment it was disgusting. I've got a photo on my laptop that I will load up to have a look, with me standing there and the other guys blood all over me. Good photo lol but probably not so good for him. He would have been a mess the next morning.

 

Anyway moral of the story is that BJJ does work in the street, although its more for one on one type stuff. What I really want to learn more of is the wrestling. Very effective and very dangerous if you know what your doing. Muai Thai is good, I love the knees and the clinch which I have already learnt to a degree, but the kicks leave you open to be knocked over easily when your fighting MMA IMO.

 

Brutal.
A Muay Thai elbow is awesome thing to know.
My ex- next door neighbour did kickboxing for years, I used to go to his place and train with him, using the equipment he had. I mainly just stuck to my boxing. He used to go over to Thailand every two years when he was younger, and you pay a gym not very much money and you can live and train with them for a few months. He said he would train with them for a like 7 weeks then have a 1 week holiday.
Anyways he showed me how to throw a good elbow, especially when someone is holding you its a weapon.
Ive used it twice, (in the 5 street fights Ive been in since Ive been an adult) and one time it worked a charm.

I was in a bar in Sydney, Martin Place bar I think it used to be called. Long story short, I was being removed by this arsehold bouncer, he was a ****ing huge ****, all muscle clearly roid assisted because his head looked so disproportionate. It looked like a pea on a gorilla.
Anyways he started getting really pushy and I told him to get ****ed I was leaving anyway.

 

I would be using my kicks as a counter to punches, because you should be blocking your face well when throwing a good thai kick. Plus if you can hit there lead leg with all the weight on it.

 

Not sure why but he grabbed me by the back of the neck and starting saying how he could kill me with one punch so dont mess with him.

We moved like this for a about 3m until we got outside and he was being a ****wit, even one of his bouncer mates said to him to take it easy on me.
So outside the club Im in front of him slightly bent over, and I feel his grip loosen. And so I turn just enough so I can see him and swung around hard, broke his girb, pretty much jumped at him with full blown elbow. Not sure where I got him, we both froze for like a second and so I bolted down Martin Pl. I looked back once he was just standing there, I didnt stop running till I got the Sussex St about half a KM away. If I had stayed he would have beat the **** out of me, maybe he wouldnt have stopped till I was dead.

I had got seperated from my mates so about half an hour later we finally meet up at the Rocks. I told them what happened in detail and they laughed. They said they thought that the bouncer had been hit by a pole or schoonered, because I had split his nose right open and there was blood everywhere.
Apparently he was kicking over tables and going nuts,he had to be restrained by the other bouncers. He was yelling "Im gonna kill that ****" "let me go find him"
Tell you what though, my elbow ached for like a month after that. I obviously didnt do it perfect.

I thought to myself I got one back for the little guy that night, but I never went back to that establishment I must say.

 

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