A pro fighter's casual jab lesson at the gym spiraled into eight months of boxing and MMA training. The speaker fought unprepared, won anyway, broke three ribs in the process, and decided fighting wasn't for them, even though the training was.
Eight months.
Broke three ribs.
They won the fight.
I was just in the gym, and I was getting so bored. Yeah. Guy at the front desk sees me hitting the punching back terribly. Yeah. Worst punches you've ever seen. And the guy's like, hey, man, I'm actually a pro fighter. You know, this is the jab, this is the cross. You got to plant your feet. I told him within the first week, I'm like, if you could find me a fight, I'll get in there. Like, I just wanted to prove to myself. So you just started boxing or. Boxing, yeah, and doing some mma. He got me a fight. We trained super hard for eight months. I'm doing mma. Got out there in the fight, beat the guy down. Like, surprisingly, money. No. Risked my life for pure nothing. It was, what, like, one of those moments where you ever just want to, like, you want to test yourself, or maybe you got a chip on your shoulder. And I was just like, get me in the cage. I had no business being in there. The guy was like, 10, and, oh, you look him up, and it's like, the first fight, he's just knocking a guy out savagely. And I had already accepted the fight. I'm like, how can I get out of this? But I won the fight. He, like, hit me in the back of the head. Boom. Kicked me. Spinning kick. Boom. I'm, like, getting messed up. I'm. Both my hands are here. This is the beginning of the fight. Not looking good, you know? And then I threw a little teep kick, followed it up with a knee, broke three ribs. He starts kind of crumbling down. He gets to the back. Rear Naked Show. It was in that moment where I was like, okay, I don't want to do fighting. Yeah. But I love this pursuit.
