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The news is out that the next Box-A-Buddy event is coming this next Saturday. I figure I might as well address the rumors of e-mails and phone calls I been getting.{That was horrid english}. I am going to be hanging up the gloves for good. I am going to be calling quits on the ring fighting. A lot of people will look at this column and think I am a blow hard and I am puffing up my own ego. However I am calling it quits for several reasons.
The first one is I am now media boy, I am doing something that I was doing and have been trying to do for several years with KJAG Radio and my radio program. I am now working back in Mainstream radio and I am also doing the TV show. Which all of these things I love and I also love competing and doing combat sports. However, I do not have time in the day to do the media thing and also working out and training for fights and also doing the husband and family thing. I can not fully commit to training and fighting full time. As everyone knows, if I can not commit to full time, I do nothing half ass ed or part time.
Another reason I am hanging them up is for one, competing is a non issue here in Kansas. There is no Tough man events to compete in. I am not really interested in doing MMA and there is not much in Kansas to do unless you want to go to Oklahoma. Box-A-Buddy was fun but I am pretty much a big fish in a small pond. I have fought everyone I wanted to fight and the guys who I want to compete with will not fight me or match makers will not match me with them. For instance, I wanted to fight Keith Zwickle and Brad Chapman. Chapman has told many people within Box-A-Buddy that he does not want to take the risk to lose to a “circus sideshow”. Keith Z says after he has heard my gym routines and saw my matches recently, he wants nothing to do with me.
Additional reason for hanging them up is I have no need to compete and do the training that I have done. I am at a place in my life where I do not have to go into a gym to blow everyone out of the gym and try to break down my training partners and prove I am whatever I needed to prove. I do not have the support system around me that I need to be the best damn fighter in the area. For instance, I had the guys in Galva who made me the skilled boxer that I ended up becoming. I had Rob and Jeaves who made me the tough bad ass that I ended up becoming. A lot of these guys like Dave” The Popguy” and “Big Business” got beat on, but they never saw the beatings me and Rob dished out on each other. If they could not hang with me, they wanted nothing to do with Robsobi.
I have accomplished all I could and stuff I could not have been blow opportunity's For instance, I wanted to be doing MMA back in 1999. I had done all I could with the backyard fights and tried to get to California to train with the bad asses, I was going to use the Navy to get there. I flipped out and got tossed from The Navy. So basically I blew that chance, I ended up going to Wichita and Hutch and training in BJJ{Brazilian Jiu Jitsu} and doing Golden Gloves. Finding Box=A=Buddy and then doing some cross training with Rob and Jeaves. I had this affliction for being a tough dude. If Rob could tell the story of our buddy “Tippy” using me as a Thai Kick boxing post in his garage. Ha Ha great stuff there, wish we had tape of that for Youtube.com
I ended up getting dumped my ex in 2004 and after spending a great deal of time feeling hopeless. I ended up taking back the gym and as Rob and Jeaves and others can attest to you. I kicked some ass and put some power and everything else together in the gym. I re-made myself public ally and was able to become a social butterfly again in Mac and other areas of Kansas.
However, I am not saying I am just giving up on the combat game. I understand eventually I may come back to the ring. However at this time, there is nothing to gain by fighting. I have done a lot of things threw fighting and training. I have killed a lot demons and I have settled a lot of personal issues. I have been able to deal with a lot of problems and have conquered a lot of hurdles and issues. I am no longer needing the ring to prove, whatever I had to prove to myself.
Now, I am not giving up on all this..I am still involved in the sport, I still love to train fighters and I would still love to spar every once in awhile. I think it would be great to get together with Rob and Jeaves and slam some weights around every once in awhile. I still have a lot of contacts and are making more in the sport. I have had on some greats of the past and today on the radio program. I am still a fan, I still love to chat about the sport with buddys,etc. I still can provide the motivation to get guys over. For instance if this comes off, Steve Rice who I trained and Rob taught some boxing too. Is going to be fighting Jeaves at B-A-B on Saturday the 11th. Here is how Steve wins this fight and make it 2-0 against Jeaves. Steve, needs to stick and move and get away, hit Jeaves in the belly and take a Bernard Hopkins like stance. Rice, can beat Jeaves if he goes after Jeaves and go toe to toe and toss bombs. Like Dennis did, however, Rice can not toss bombs and also he does not have the “power” Dennis had when he fought Jeaves. Finally, Jeaves will have to take Steve lightly for this to happen. Guess what I am sure after his last fight with Dennis and “smack talking” that Rice has done, Jeaves will not take it lightly Now for Jeaves to win this fight, if this is the old Jeaves that I trained with. Jeaves uses his amazing footwork and stick and move. Jeaves can use his bombs and 1-2 shots and then hop on that “bicycle” and make “Scubba Steve” chase him. Jeaves also needs to use that reach and jab to just score points and scoot. The first time, Jeaves should have jabbed and stuck and moved. However, he wanted to bomb Steve out of there and Steve used movement and won the crowd. If Jeaves can jab and footwork, Steve is screwed If Jeaves has been training he will have the cardio to stay on his feet and jab and use combos and make Steve look like a “barfly” flunkies. If not, Steve will make Jeaves look like all the smack he has talked. My personal hope, if Jeaves wins this thing can go to a 3rd and a winner can be done. If Steve wins Jeaves can just go off and train like a mad man for a year and make a Mike Tyson like comeback and storm all over the Brawl-a-Buddy competion.
Finally, I hope I can not be like those jackasses like John Ruiz and others who retire then comeback and end up being some former shell of himself. I would like to make frequent appearances for Box-A-Buddy and just talk and sell tickets. Another idea was to be a true “Circus act” fight nobody's and non talents and put on good shows. However, Edwards the promoter of B-A-B, wants me to do fights with “top flight” competion or nothing at all. So I guess the last time I was in Box-A-Buddy was my last shot. I hope Rob and Jeaves can update me as to what happened at Box-A-Buddy. Since I,
A} Filimg at The Blue Goat for TV
B} Excluded from Box-A-Buddy because I can not just show up and cutting a promo.
Any feedback will be appreciated...
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