I Got Disqualified At Golden Gloves Tournament!!!

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Mar
15

The last couple months I had really been focusing on my boxing because a couple of big tournaments were coming up. When it was time for the USA Tournament my first bout was against my good friend and teammate Marquis Moore who has been boxing since a child. So of course I bowed out. So this wouldn’t happen in the Golden Gloves Tournament we decided I should drop down in weight. I filled out the form 152 lbs but before the form was turned in the next week things changed so we decided to bump me back to the 165 class.

I got to the weigh ins for my fight on Saturday night but noticed that the bracket had me at 152. To make a long story short one of my coaches had forgotten to change my weight on the form. I went to the head organization politely and asked him if he could change it but they wouldn’t. My coach felt bad and apologized.

The next week I didn’t make it to the boxing gym at all, getting a lot of other training and things for my MMA training together. The next week my little buddy Gary Antonio Russell checked on me saying they had missed me in the gym and he knew I was mad about not getting to fight. I love that guy and appreciate him checking on me, he’s 17 yrs old. He and one of his older brothers another of my good friends Gary Allen Russell recently won USA Boxing Regional Tournament!

I told Antonio that I didn’t get mad at all, I immediately called texted my boss for my night job telling him I would make it and changed into suit and left. I explained to him that since I went through the tragedy last year I have been changed forever. I don’t look at things the same way anymore. I’ve realized that things will happen that’s out of my control and there’s no use in getting mad or thinking about things you can’t change. Who knows I could have fought and tore my ACL or worse.

I just now believe that what’s suppose to happen for me will happen because my steps are ordered by God. Now when stuff happens out of the way I just laugh and it’s not intentional. I was forced here by the tragedy I endure because for me there is nothing else that could happen to me in life worse than it, and I made it through it when I honestly had rather died than experience it! Now I really laugh and have matured from the situation drastically in some areas. It has made me think about the scripture I had started reading before the tragedy and makes it make a lot of sense now. I know its wasn’t coincidence that I was stuck on this scripture. Well here it goes see if you can see how it is applicable.

James 1 :2-7
2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,[a] whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. 6 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. 7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. 8 Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.

I could understand how you could consider it joy for a long time, but it said pure joy!! But now I do and will break it down another day.

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