I'd been training like crazy for a fight I was supposed to have with Lamara Iverson, but her manager seemed to go squirrely on me for some reason and nothing's come of it.

So I decided that I really wanted to get some ring time in other than sparring once a week as part of my training regimen. I decided to enter into a local Toughman competition. For anyone who might not be familiar with these things, they are a single elimination "boxing" tournament that runs for 2 nights. The people who fight in these things often do not have much if any boxing training (although I did see a few talented fighters there). I really wanted to at least get an idea of what it's like to be in an actual ring in front of a crowd.

Anyway, on the first night, I drew a girl on the first night who was younger and shorter than me and weighed more. I beat her pretty soundly in that fight (3 one minute rounds) with a unanimous decision. I admire her. She had a lot of heart.

Here's the film of that fight (hope it shows as I've never embedded something before..If it doesn't work, I have to put up a URL). I know there's quite a few things that I did wrong, but I'd gladly take any feedback. I'm the taller fighter in the sport bra top and the black and gold trunks.

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When I came back for the second night, there were three heavyweight female fighters left including me. I lucked out and drew the bi so I got to fight whoever won the fight between the other two. As it turned out, last years champion won the fight so I had to fight her. She didn't seem to be looking forward to fighting me at all going into the ring and after the first round, she refused to come out of her corner for the second round giving me a TKO. I won a nice jacket, a nice chunk o change and I nicked an extra set of handwraps off of the promoter (the supply you with a set of handwraps but gosh I liked 'em ).