You're talented for sure but don't start going all Money Mayweather on us until you start building a record. What is your record, BTW?
FWIW, I'm no boxing professional by any means.
Your shadowboxing is FAST. You look like Pacman.
What's your weightclass again?
Nah I'm by no means cocky, I have a very long way to go, I still make a lot of mistakes and need a ton of experience under my belt before I can make it big. I just have a ton of self belief, if there is any talent I have it is self belief. I had a very serious medical condition that was afflicting me for about 10 years, and I believe that it blessed me in a way and god's way of blessing me, which ill explain in a second.
So I had my first 3 amateur fights my first year in boxing, my first fight actually 2 weeks after training in the gym lol, fought a guy with 9 fights who already had a tournament win ect. I was naive and like I said, a ton of self belief. My trainer Floyd Sr. had a ton of belief as well, mainly because of my hand speed. So I truly went in there expecting a quick easy knockout because that's what I believe I'm capable of, it didn't work out that way. I whooped him the first round, dropped him in the second, but in the third I just didn't have the energy to fight back. I took a knee with about 30 seconds left, thinking it was the smart thing to do & that I'm winning the fight anyway, didn't even go down from a punch (he was trying to get to me tho, moment I hit the ropes I figured I'd be 8-counted anyway, why take punches when I can just take a knee). I got up at 4 seconds and leaned against the ropes to try and conserve more energy as he counts to 8, and he stopped the fight. It was at his gym, and I believe that is why that happened. My stamina was due to me not running once in my life.
2nd fight comes along a few months later, which I truly on my life think I won clearly rounds 1 and 2, once again I hurt my opponent and landed shots that actually did damage, just a rough and tough come forward Mexican style boxer, didn't hit me in the head a single time I'm not even kidding. The 3rd round came around and once again I had no energy (but I had saved my energy much better this time than from my first fight, and had been running, so wtf?), he pushed me back and even tho I buckled him again at the very end, he won the fight which surprised me and Floyd Sr.,
4 months and a freak injury later comes the 3rd fight. In sparring I didn't feel right, my hands starting feeling like glass, I was extremely fragile and had to adjust training accordingly, I had just dealt with a hand problem in my right hand for 2 months so and did not want that happening again. I don't got much to say bout my 3rd fight, guy was terrible, and I gave him it. I threw maybe 5 punches in the first round, maybe 10 in the second, because in my head I was going to knock him out when he got tired, in the amateurs the 3rd came around outta nowhere, and for once I dominated the 3rd round and buckled him bad at the end, but obviously with rounds 1-2 gone, I lost. I was crushed by that one, because I knew what I was capable of but couldn't pull the trigger for different reasons each time. First fight : too tired to pull trigger, 2nd fight: bullshit I won that fight to be honest but still should have dominated much more, 3rd fight: in fear from losing my first 2 fights, didn't pull the trigger in fear of getting tired.
0-3, the cold truth I have to tell anyone that asks about my record, I haven't fought in 4 years because following that I had an extremely odd string of energies. TFCC tear in my left wrist, TFCC tear in my right wrist, broken fingers/knuckles, surgeries, tore my Rhomboid muscle and was out for 3 months + physical therapy for that. All these things kept me out of the ring for 4 years straight (5 years now, I just returned but obviously the brain surgery and tumor my doctors wanted me off a year). All while this was happening from day one I had a persistent sharp pain in my forehead, and my eyesight specifically in my right eye was getting very bad ( which is now permanently damaged, oh well small price to pay to be alive ) , which I contributed to a sinus headache every time. It got slowly worse tho, and for the previous 2 years I was borderline A-sexual, no sex drive at all but I didn't think much about it to be honest.
Oh, when I was 14 I was diagnosed with HGH deficiency, I was in 9th grade 4'5 70lbs. Went to the doctor because I was bullied about my size. Got put on HGH for 2 years & my growth shot up to about 5'5 105lbs in that time period. They gave some weird reason about some syndrome where it needs to be kickstarted or some mumbo jumbo I know nothing about. I actually considered sueing them because my tumor should have been found then, it is the primary cause for HGH deficiency, but they opted out of doing the MRI to see if treatment worked first. They said I was very small (bottom 1st percentile for my age), but not so small that a brain tumor thought was warranted.
Fast forward, I'm sure in my thread I described in detail the process, but I tore the muscle in my back again last year, I felt overtrained after only 4 weeks returning from my right hand surgery, and just shitty. Woke up in my bed seeing a blurry moving mess, and a physical sensation in my body that I was floating in space. Scary super scary so I drank some Benadryl thats in my bedside table and went back to sleep. Felt out of it the next day, and told my mother about it, she was pretty alarmed saying that is far from normal but I told her not to worry since it went away. The 2nd night I woke up again with the same sensation, felt like I was sliding down a slope while not moving, so I got up at 2 am and went to the ER where after a few hours and a lot of tests (and worry about a blood clot from boxing, even tho I hadn't sparred in 6 days, its what I thought was wrong to though), I finally got the news about a large mass that's growing in my head known as a craniopharyngioma. Got a blood panel to check my endocrine system since that is the first place that gets damaged, and my Testosterone was at 47 on a range of 395-1100, my growth hormone response test came as GH deficient once again.
SO to wrap it up : My tumor had been growing for over 10 years and the doctors say it is definitely what caused my growth hormone deficiency back when I was 14 and went to the doctors, they said it is the cause of my fragility at my age and all the constant injuries. Pretty much after months of depression I realized : This was my best chance for boxing. Before it was looking like I wouldn't be able to box because my body could not handle the stress, and I thought I was fully healthy. Now I find out there is a reason for all this, my body might actually be able to handle all of the things that it couldn't before, I found out stamina is one of the largest things gh deficiency and testosterone deficiency cause, which could attribute to my matches and how winded I got. There was a new hope for me.
Now I have all my levels normal, I quickly moved from 120-125lbs to 135lbs the moment I started working out again. My hands feel invulnerable, they have both had serious career ending injuries happen to them, but they feel perfect. I recover quickly, I have more stamina even without running, my punching power had increased and I believe I was already a very good puncher, my speed has increased, everything shot up. That is right now. I have yet to fight again, and will be making a competitive return again next year. I can positively say that I was better than all 3 of my opponents in all 3 of my fights, even the guy with 9 I was better than him after 2 weeks. He left with a concussion, not me, opponent number 2 lost clearly if u ask me, and opponent number 3 was beyond disappointing performance for me, but once again he got the benefit of a concussion as I buckled him badly with a pull counter in the 3rd round.
I may be wrong, but I BELIEVE that I am not, and it is that belief that separates the ones who make it and the ones who don't, I would know because I've trained alongside many many world champions and they all carry one huge thing: an odd almost cocky belief in themselves. I won't say I'm the best because I'm not and I don't believe that. I believe I can be the best though. I believe I can hurt and knock out any fighter at my weight class of 130 that I land a clean punch on, I believe I am faster than everybody in my weight class. Out of everyone I've sparred which includes world championship level fighters, never once have I been in there with someone quicker than me. Not cockiness, its the truth, or at least the truth I choose to believe. There is way better punchers than me, but speed is my game. I've had it happen countless times boxing guys who have been fighting since they were 8, and after sparring they walk up and say I'm the fastest guy they have ever been in the ring with.
Sadly talent alone will not beat hard work, unless talent works hard. My 0-3 record means nothing to me, and if anyone thinks I'm anywhere close to the fighter I was in those fights, they are in for a surprise. That was my first 7 months of training and boxing. While I've only had about another 6 months of true active training and sparring since 4 years ago due to my tumor, I've visualized boxing every day. I've shadow boxed every day that I was able to. I've stayed dedicated even when things were not looking good in terms of my future of boxing. Floyd Sr., will drop a fighter in a heartbeat if they lose, he is cold like that. The fact that he didn't drop me and remains in close contact throughout all this shows his belief. But honestly, I don't need anyones belief but my own. I know what I'm capable of.
I really really do not want to come off as cocky or anything though, that is just my personal belief and I've been wrong many times in the past so I can't say I won't be wrong again. But I believe I won't be wrong.
There are 2 separate fighters : Damaged hormones me, and post surgery me who has hormones corrected, aka an actual healthy fighter.
Oh I almost forgot, why I believe I'm blessed with my tumor. Well for one I'm 1 in 9 million, which is pretty cool even tho it ruined my life for a while. BUT : My father's hands are huge, he is 5'8 and walks around lean at 185lbs. My brother is the same way, 5'8 walks around 165 lbs. Both box aswell. I was extremely small compared to the rest, and my hands aren't just smaller than my dads, they are smaller than my mothers. I have very tiny hands. (which is a sign of growth retardation/hgh deficiency). My scientific reasoning behind my hand speed and power besides belief is that my muscle fibers and fast twitch tendons are designed for someone larger, in my right in my arms all of that, I think it is designed for someone much bigger than myself. I was told by my doctor there is without a doubt growth retardation in me permanently, and I will never know where I was supposed to be had I been healthy throughout my teen years with healthy hormones. Sadly they were tanked in the most important time. I believe it is a blessing tho because it allows me to propel everything that didn't grow correctly, very quickly. My power comes from my speed, and my speed I think comes from this deficiency I had. Idk, only rational explanation I have.
On a side note : Floyd Sr., who has trained 7+ world champions including p4p icons like Mayweather Jr., and Oscar De La Hoya, said I am the hardest puncher with speed combination he has ever had. He's said it multiple times, he used to say I was on steroids ( which is ironic looking back , I was on the opposite of steroids, all my stuff was 0 ) That compliment is something I'll take to my grave no matter what, it is a hell of an honor to have someone so prestigious believe that. If I couldn't box anymore tomorrow, I would still tell my kids that at one point, that was indeed Floyd Sr.'s thought and be proud of it.
There's my life story, sorry if I sound cocky or in any way not humble. If I remain healthy though I will become a champion, and it will all make sense. Put all my belief in god I'm just following the thoughts he puts in my head.