Great Video From The Past Check It Out!!

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Oct
28

Had to Invest In Myself or Give up Fighting!!

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Oct
24

     You guys are very aware of the fact that I broke my hand the week before the April 30th fight. This caused a huge problem!! You figured it out I had no way to make money, & the money I had coming in that allowed me to live and train ended in July.

     I am very good with money I always have been. I pretty much don’t buy anything unless I need it. I rarely go anywhere outside of training and I don’t have any bad habits. Yes, I could have easily gotten a 9 to 5 job somewhere and pissed away my abilities and goals that I had been working for the last seven years, but that isn’t an option. The people that are the best in the world only do that one thing. Those hours they spend are one of the two major things attributed to them being great.

     My little side job added a very small amount of cushion. I was talking to Rhadi and was telling him that I’m about to run out of money. He told me, “No you are not do you ever run out? God is going to run you into something else as he always does!!” We also talked about me getting back into school from time to time, because I always planned on going back to become a psychologist. I know that fighting is a very short career.

     Months passed by and my hand was still hurting, so I got a cortisone shot. Even though I was out of shape because I hadn’t been able to train, I was trying to schedule fights around when I thought my hand would feel better. Long story short August came and I was down to my last $100 and had not paid rent yet, so obviously I wasn’t going to be able to pay it. The student loan people called and let me know that I was on my last deferment. I think it was Rhadi that I told this to as well but I can’t remember. Anyways whoever it was they told me that you know once this last deferment is over you can’t get a student loan anymore. Right then the light bulb came on and said I got to get in school.

     I realized I can kill three birds with one stone!! I could take steps to pursue my education, get the student loan people off of my back, and take out a larger loan to live to fight another day. I had to make the decision to invest in myself!

     So, I went around for weeks getting the run around with school but I’m very persistent. So I finally got in, and was told that I basically would be given permission to take the hardest class from the program and the next to the hardest class. About half the students in the class either failed this Statistics class last year or dropped it. So, I’m finally in the class but I’m behind because of the run around and the fact that the students in this class had recently taken the basic level of stats. This class jumps right in lightening speed past all of the basics. Remind you I don’t remember one thing from basic stats at this time. I took Stats 10 years ago. On top of that it was taking forever for the student loan to go through and get dispersed. So, I can’t buy the $260 book.

     Shortly after I got the book I found out I was on the Shogun Fight Card. So needless to say I failed the first test horribly and I did a little better on the one that was a week after the fight, because I didn’t leave it blank like I did the first one. I’m sure the professor thinks I’m going to drop it but I’m not. I’m going to come back like I do in everything else and surprise her!! I’ve noticed that some have dropped the class. I’m going to blast through this next test and the final and hope that she gives me a little help because she sees that I have mastered the material.

I Was So Irritated During This Ice Bath!!!

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Oct
11

After my April 30th fight I found out that the week before, I fought I had broken my hand in the car accident. This forced me to take the next three months off. Well, in August I jumped back into training full blast. I only have two speeds. Im either at 0 or 1,000. I jumped Immediately back into getting up at 6:30 am and doing 4 a day training. So, my body was hurting and screaming like you won’t believe!! The insides of my muscle’s were burning walking up stairs and in everything I did. Lloyd Irvin suggested that I take an Ice Bath. This was something that I said I would never do, but my body was killing me!!! Leslie and Shereen were really working my nerves, two people that have never and will never take an ice bath were trying to tell me what to do!! LoL Even though It won’t sound like it I really appreciate their help and thanked them!!! Leslie even brought the bags of Ice over and Ms Shereen ran the water.

Thanks again GUYS!!!!!!

Behind the Scenes Of The Win This Weekend!!

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Oct
11

     I had a bad left leg injury for about the last month. So for about the last month I had only been sparring with punches. The week before the fight it seemed to feel better so I decided to spar adding the Kicks back in. This was a bad mistake. As soon as I got kicked in it once it flared up big TIME!! So I immediately started getting therapy done on it. Fight week my doctor worked on it more, but told me that he didn’t want to irritate it anymore and stopped.

     I was a little concerned about it for the fight. When I was sparring that day it hurt so bad that when I would get kicked in it or thought I was going to get kicked in it, I would reach down in anticipation of the pain. This is a terrible thing to do, because it shows that you are hurt and if someone fakes a kick low and you reach you will get kicked in the head!!!!

     I don’t ever look at my opponents at all. I leave it to my coaches to look at my opponents and put together a game plan for me because I don’t like to look at it & create anxiety about the person. I rather just be prepared for everything. Well the problem with that this time was, I’m not a part of a team or have a coach right now.The fight prior to this one I trained out of Evolve Academy and Warrior Gym. Master Mike out of Evolve put the game plan together for me for that fight. He also got this fight for me, but I was unable to get to any of those places because I’m now back in school and have very limited time to train. That’s also why I haven’t been blogging. I was able to get good sparring in at Lloyd Irvin’s Mixed Martial Arts Academy on the days guys were sparring. This was right on time because Mike Easton had a camp going on and I was able to spar with a couple of the guys after he was done with them.

     So, Friday at the weigh ins I got very distracting news that I should not have heard before a fight from the management. Which caused things to be in my mind that I shouldn’t have had going on before a fight. My brain turns over like something crazy. I’m super analytical and don’t trust anyone PERIOD!!! So, my brain started turning over about that whole situation, thinking about how it all really went down and the people that were involved with it. Then, later that night my Boy Ron Stallings looked at my opponent and say hey this guy is a south paw and you have to protect the kicks. My brain immediately started turning more thinking dang!! You know he is left handed which means he will primarily kick the Inside of your leg because of the way he’s positioned. I had also noticed in weigh ins that he was about two inches taller than me. So I knew he would definitely get to kick my leg. Ordinarily I wouldn’t have cared, but I knew that if the wind blew on my leg it was going to be super painful. My brain thought even more about the people that I know knew that this Guy was south paw, but didn’t mention it to me. In my head I was thinking if I had known and it was reverse I would have told them.

     I went to my screw everybody mode, but was thankful that at least I knew before the fight. I immediately prayed then thought to send a message to others that are strong prayers to pray on my behalf. But I didn’t entertain the thought to send a message. I immediately got mad and screamed with authority ” Satan Get Behind Me You Have No Authority ME, I know you are trying to distract me and keep me from my purpose!!” People use Devil and Satan interchangeably, but they are never used that way in the Bible. Devil is when he is using his divisive nature, to cause division. Satan is used when he is trying to keep one from his purpose. Don’t worry I’m not going to get into that but I could LOL. I just said that to say I had to recognized my opponent if I was going to have a change of defeating him.

     Next, I started visualizing moving the opposite way so I would be use to it the next night, because all of the people I had been sparring had been right handed. I also started thinking about all the other times I had allowed things before a fight to give me anxiety and after the fact I realized I shouldn’t have even wasted that energy. I later called Rashad letting him know the thoughts I had earlier. He talked to me and told me the that people aren’t on my level Period!! This helped me think about just how Great I know I am!! And that it didn’t matter.

     I did a lot of mental practicing in my head that night. I woke up the next morning and saw that my little sister had posted something on face book about how I use to go around the house singing 112′s “Cupid”. So this caused me to go to the car and get my Ipod and start singing in the room. I started to relax more immediately. I’m always to myself singing something mostly Marvin Sapp or Fred Hammond. I thought to go to my car and get my tripod to record a song, its below so you guys can get a laugh. hahaha A hour before I was to leave my room I talked to Rhadi Ferguson and he basically told me, “No fan or promotion is going to care about your injury or the things that are going on,the adrenaline will kick in and you won’t feel the pain you got to get that stuff out of your mind and win the fight, take a nap and I’ll called you later to pray.”

     I got to the venue and got a prayer and great words with my mentor Crosby Bonner and Best friend Jarrett Becks. I realized that I didn’t have anyone to wrap my hands. I immediately remembered Mike Kelley from MMA 3:15 radio volunteering his services to me before when he was wrapping other fighters hands. I called him and he was in the venue. He went to his car and got his stuff and wrapped me. We were at crunch time and he knew it, I could tell because he was sweating. He did a great job. That was the best my hands had ever been wrapped!! When he finished we only had a couple minutes to go over my gave plan and warm up before the called me out. So I really didn’t get warm. I was totally relaxed when the fight started, but just as I feared he soon started to kick that leg and it hurt so bad with the adrenaline and all!!!! I stayed focused and didn’t show it in my face, but couldn’t help but to react by reaching for his kicks with my hands because of the pain. He threw a kick and slipped and I immediately got on him. While I was down there I was praying Lord please let me finish this here, because I didn’t wanna take another round of me getting my leg Kicked. So, I Thank the Lord I finished the fight 1st round!!

I forgot to give Juan Ponte thanks at Max Muscle for sponsoring me with my supplements. Check him out by clicking on his name!!

A Good Laugh At My Expense!!! HAHAHA

I’m Fighting this Saturday at Shogun Fights

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Oct
6

I’ve Been very busy as usual actually more than usual. I started school this semester so, I had to cut into my sleep time to try to study and catch up. So far its not going to well. I’m taking Statistics from the PhD Clinical Psychology curriculum. I started out behind due to admissions, getting a book late, and plus the fact that I hadn’t taken statistics in almost 10 yrs. So, I don’t know what she is talking about In class!! Its been so long that I can’t try to remember anything, I have to relearn everything. This is no where near the same because this course is for PhD students. It picks right up as if you have recently taken statistics.

What makes it worse is you guys know from what I write and say that I’m very analytical and swift by nature. I can read or hear things and spit it out and understand it as if it came from me. I can even add to it! But guess what that works for me in everything except anything above basic math and biology!!! I’m terrible in these things and they can’t keep my attention. I’m light speeds ahead in so many areas. I guess it was God’s way of evening the score, because I stink it up in these areas!!

I’m in class taking notes but don’t understand a word she is saying. It’s like the teacher on Charlie Brown all I hear is WHA WHA WHA!! The only good thing I can find out of it thus far is at least she is very pleasant to the eyes while my head is hurting and I’m looking at the clock !!Bahahaha There are a lot of people in the class that dropped it or failed it last year. So, one of the guys said to me ” Trust me that will wear off QUICKLY!!!” hahaha. So, If any of you guys know a good stats tutor that can take me from A to Z quickly please let me know ASAP!! The first test, I promise you I did not attempt to work one problem only did multiple choice and answered questions. I was glad when she said it wouldn’t be weighed heavily now since everyone did so poorly!! I sat in her undergrad class earlier before my class, & am now about to rush to her assistants undergrad class to try to get some of this stuff to click!!

Anyway I fight this weekend at Shogun Fights, Sorry I haven’t been keeping you guys up to speed as I was before but my plate is pouring out on the Floor!!! Please pray for me that I have an awesome victory that lets the world know who’s and who I am!!! Thanks gotta go class starts in 10 mins. LOL I didn’t get to proof this so bare with me!!!