Saturday, January 28, 2006
Things got worse!
Surprisingly, I had not injuries at all from the fight! However, I fell ill a few days after the fight. I felt weak and could not train at all. All I wanted to do was sleep. I went to the doctor and was misdiagnosed as having a viral infection and I got worse after taking his medication! (Please DO NOT go to Doctor Wattana in Patong!) I simply could not train and my hopes of having a second fight faded. A few days later, I visited another doctor and he told me that I was simply suffering from dehydration! He gave me some herbal medication and some salty isotonic drinks to drink everyday. I recovered in a few days. By then, it was almost time for me to return home. Not only had I lost the fight, I lost so much weight! It was a great experience nevertheless! On hindsight, I should have waited a couple more weeks more before fighting…guess I was too anxious lah…dumbass as usual!
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Part 2
New twist of events…
24 hrs before the fight, I was told by Bow that David decided not to fight for reasons unknown and a French fighter named Bryce replaced him. Bow told me that I could fight this guy and even put me on the phone with the owner of Rawai Muay Thai who convinced me that although Bryce won his last 2 fights by KO in the 1st round, his opponents were Thai kids and I should be a good match for him. To cut the long story short, I went for it…(Sillyporean so easy to convince right?!)
Fight Night
My fans :p
Finally, first fight after a year of anticipation! I was calm before the fight but all hell broke lose when the bell rang. I was put under pressure from the beginning and was chased around with punches and kicks and I think the adrenalin got the better of me! I was not breathing at all throughout the round! I managed to get the better of Bryce toward the end of the round when I connected with some knees and punches. I was really relieved when the bell rang for the end of Round 1. I was huffing and puffing like an old man! My legs became jelly A section of the stadium was really boisterous during the interval and I later found out that they were betting for me to get knocked out in the first round! Guess I must have pissed them off for surviving the round. The second round was a slugfest! We just stood in the center of the ring and threw everything at each other. Finally, I dropped to the ground from sheer exhaustion and the referee stopped the fight!
Exhausted but 'happy' after loss
24 hrs before the fight, I was told by Bow that David decided not to fight for reasons unknown and a French fighter named Bryce replaced him. Bow told me that I could fight this guy and even put me on the phone with the owner of Rawai Muay Thai who convinced me that although Bryce won his last 2 fights by KO in the 1st round, his opponents were Thai kids and I should be a good match for him. To cut the long story short, I went for it…(Sillyporean so easy to convince right?!)
Fight Night
My fans :p
Finally, first fight after a year of anticipation! I was calm before the fight but all hell broke lose when the bell rang. I was put under pressure from the beginning and was chased around with punches and kicks and I think the adrenalin got the better of me! I was not breathing at all throughout the round! I managed to get the better of Bryce toward the end of the round when I connected with some knees and punches. I was really relieved when the bell rang for the end of Round 1. I was huffing and puffing like an old man! My legs became jelly A section of the stadium was really boisterous during the interval and I later found out that they were betting for me to get knocked out in the first round! Guess I must have pissed them off for surviving the round. The second round was a slugfest! We just stood in the center of the ring and threw everything at each other. Finally, I dropped to the ground from sheer exhaustion and the referee stopped the fight!
Exhausted but 'happy' after loss
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Back at Patong boxing gym Nov/Dec 2005
Training for my first fight!
I started training as soon as I reached Phuket. Did runs in the morning followed by some shadow sparing and pad-work and in the late afternoons, I did 5 rounds of pads followed by some clinching. I was quite disappointed that my previous trainer Si went back to his hometown and trained under this guy called Pyak. I thought Pyak had a pretty ‘wayang’ and ‘bo chap’ attitude. Bow arranged for me to fight sooner than expected. There was this American guy David from Rawai Muay Thai, who was also a ‘virgin’ fighter like me and we were of the same weight. Bow was the promoter for the event and matched me with him barely a weeks into training. I was supposed to fight on the 8th of December. I thought why not, I might even have time for a second fight before I return to Singapore!
Bang is found!
A new boxing stadium was built after the Tsunami-Bangla Boxing Stadium along the most crowded street of Patong-,Soi Bangla. A week before my fight, I bumped into Bang when I went there to watch the fights. Bang seemed very worried and a little pissed that I was gonna fight and insisted that I visit him for training at a new gym that he was coaching at- J.Prapar Gym at Kata Beach. I went to train at Kata the next day and nearly fainted from the 5 intensive rounds of pad work under Bang! Gosh! I had forgotten how tough it really was. I was having it easy at Patong! Bang insisted that I was not ready to fight but Bow convinced him that that David was very amateur like myself.
Fight poster
I started training as soon as I reached Phuket. Did runs in the morning followed by some shadow sparing and pad-work and in the late afternoons, I did 5 rounds of pads followed by some clinching. I was quite disappointed that my previous trainer Si went back to his hometown and trained under this guy called Pyak. I thought Pyak had a pretty ‘wayang’ and ‘bo chap’ attitude. Bow arranged for me to fight sooner than expected. There was this American guy David from Rawai Muay Thai, who was also a ‘virgin’ fighter like me and we were of the same weight. Bow was the promoter for the event and matched me with him barely a weeks into training. I was supposed to fight on the 8th of December. I thought why not, I might even have time for a second fight before I return to Singapore!
Bang is found!
A new boxing stadium was built after the Tsunami-Bangla Boxing Stadium along the most crowded street of Patong-,Soi Bangla. A week before my fight, I bumped into Bang when I went there to watch the fights. Bang seemed very worried and a little pissed that I was gonna fight and insisted that I visit him for training at a new gym that he was coaching at- J.Prapar Gym at Kata Beach. I went to train at Kata the next day and nearly fainted from the 5 intensive rounds of pad work under Bang! Gosh! I had forgotten how tough it really was. I was having it easy at Patong! Bang insisted that I was not ready to fight but Bow convinced him that that David was very amateur like myself.
Fight poster
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