Primenal
01-31-2009, 09:39 AM
Well, for those of you who don't know (i'm sure a lot of you remember) I trained this kid for toughman. It's what he wanted to do, and I wanted to train him. So, yesterday was the actual fight.
Here's the first thing that pissed me off. The kid only needed to make 184.9 and below to enter LHW. He weighed in the day before at 185 WITH clothes on. He decides to be a damned fool, and not eat 24 hours before weighin! (I knew nothing about)..Which shows apparently how much this kid wanted to fight.
SO, he's coming back, and he doesn't even know what he weighs (he doesn't bother to check his weight yesterday when he gets up). He comes to the gym with me, and I'm pretty anxious to see if he can make it. Steps on the scale, and he's 179! I knew that wasn't good...So, I take him over to get him weighed, and they weigh him at 178. He brought tons of food...Good energy food before a fight.
I'm sitting in the audience, and I know the guy who won HW last year, and he comes over to me saying "Your kid got a guy that the whole locker room is scared to fight." I look at his opponent, and immediately knew my guy was in trouble. I also live in W.V (mainly white) and the kid was black...Lots of hate in this state so you got to tough to be black here. This guy wasn't huge (like 5'11 175), but he had the build of a pro boxer (wide back, long lats, very strong, and muscular). My guys 6'5. I told him soon as you come out I want you to blast him with a 1-1-2, and make him respect you.
Black guy jumps on my guy, My guy blasts him off, working the uppercut when this kid gets inside, my guys dancing around. He didn't fire enough combinations, and would mainly throw one punch at a time (told him not to). It's a good back and forth fight. The black kid throws a Shane Mosley hook and snaps his neck back (BRUTAL). My kid still comes at him firing. He puts the black kid on the ropes, but he counter punches my guy with a MASSIVE right hand that saw my kids mouthpeice go to row 12!! He takes a couple more shots, and finally goes down to end round 1. I told him to clinch...Which he didn't do either, but he was about KOed on his feet. My kid comes back for Round 2, fighting hard, but he was definitely hurt. Gets caught again, and goes down again. He gets up at 6, but they stopped the fight...and rightfully so.
I was still pretty proud of my guy. He backed the other guy up quite a few times, and the shots he took, and the heart he had...Nothing to be ashamed of I told him. I honestly don't know if I was in the ring with the black kid...That I could have even beat him. He was a VERY SKILLED fighter. My kid got hit so hard that after his match I asked him how he was doing, and he asks me "Did I go down?" He wasn't hurt or anything...Just got his damn bell rung. If he'd tighten up his defense (sometimes he'll throw and drop that hand lazily) I think he would had a decent shot. That....And if he wasn't so damn weight drained, and mentally exhausted.
How much did that NOT EATING take out of him? He made weight at 5:30, and then ate, and hydrated himself back up, and fought around 8....but after not eating 24 hours you have to be pretty effected I'd think....
Here's the first thing that pissed me off. The kid only needed to make 184.9 and below to enter LHW. He weighed in the day before at 185 WITH clothes on. He decides to be a damned fool, and not eat 24 hours before weighin! (I knew nothing about)..Which shows apparently how much this kid wanted to fight.
SO, he's coming back, and he doesn't even know what he weighs (he doesn't bother to check his weight yesterday when he gets up). He comes to the gym with me, and I'm pretty anxious to see if he can make it. Steps on the scale, and he's 179! I knew that wasn't good...So, I take him over to get him weighed, and they weigh him at 178. He brought tons of food...Good energy food before a fight.
I'm sitting in the audience, and I know the guy who won HW last year, and he comes over to me saying "Your kid got a guy that the whole locker room is scared to fight." I look at his opponent, and immediately knew my guy was in trouble. I also live in W.V (mainly white) and the kid was black...Lots of hate in this state so you got to tough to be black here. This guy wasn't huge (like 5'11 175), but he had the build of a pro boxer (wide back, long lats, very strong, and muscular). My guys 6'5. I told him soon as you come out I want you to blast him with a 1-1-2, and make him respect you.
Black guy jumps on my guy, My guy blasts him off, working the uppercut when this kid gets inside, my guys dancing around. He didn't fire enough combinations, and would mainly throw one punch at a time (told him not to). It's a good back and forth fight. The black kid throws a Shane Mosley hook and snaps his neck back (BRUTAL). My kid still comes at him firing. He puts the black kid on the ropes, but he counter punches my guy with a MASSIVE right hand that saw my kids mouthpeice go to row 12!! He takes a couple more shots, and finally goes down to end round 1. I told him to clinch...Which he didn't do either, but he was about KOed on his feet. My kid comes back for Round 2, fighting hard, but he was definitely hurt. Gets caught again, and goes down again. He gets up at 6, but they stopped the fight...and rightfully so.
I was still pretty proud of my guy. He backed the other guy up quite a few times, and the shots he took, and the heart he had...Nothing to be ashamed of I told him. I honestly don't know if I was in the ring with the black kid...That I could have even beat him. He was a VERY SKILLED fighter. My kid got hit so hard that after his match I asked him how he was doing, and he asks me "Did I go down?" He wasn't hurt or anything...Just got his damn bell rung. If he'd tighten up his defense (sometimes he'll throw and drop that hand lazily) I think he would had a decent shot. That....And if he wasn't so damn weight drained, and mentally exhausted.
How much did that NOT EATING take out of him? He made weight at 5:30, and then ate, and hydrated himself back up, and fought around 8....but after not eating 24 hours you have to be pretty effected I'd think....