Bad news for me...Malta fight is off due to injury (pics)

[Tam Seddon]

Well dang Tam, that sucks.


Anger can be a bit of an issue when training (or when you're used to training and you stop) you need to have other outlets other than just training. The clearer your head is from frustration and anger the sharper you will be.

Take care of yourself, it's good that you are away from the older gent who treats you like a child, but this is not going to be something solved so easily. You may feel as though anger helps you in the ring, but that can be very difficult to turn off outside the ring....I had that issue moving on from my days of playing sports.

I'm the most calmest and relax person ever, that was out of character from me. But you can only provoke somebody no matter how calm they are to a certain point. I rarely lose my temper, and at least I didn't do it to the guy at work. I walked away and didn't say a word. It was the mature decision. But when your own mother is screaming at you and pushing you , and you're already angry and upset I just had to let my emotion out and I would never in a million years do that to my own mother no matter how horrible she was being but I saw red and I'm having to pay the price for it now. It was a stupid mistake but we are human at especially when this company has me up at 5am doing 12 hour shifts 8 days on the bounce and me training so much and people acting funny with me it all got too much.

I'm fine now, it's happened. I've sorted everything with the boss, and my mum. I've got myself a new job and life goes on.

[Master]

Very silly Tam (although I have punched a wall myself but that was shadow boxing and not in anger). Try to count to 10 and take deep breaths. It works.

I know head injuries and trauma is common in boxing but not so much concussion.

I am concerned about your concussion and need to get it scanned as well as to give sparring a long rest.

[Tam Seddon]

Very silly Tam (although I have punched a wall myself but that was shadow boxing and not in anger). Try to count to 10 and take deep breaths. It works.

I know head injuries and trauma is common in boxing but not so much concussion.

I am concerned about your concussion and need to get it scanned as well as to give sparring a long rest.

It's hard when i have to be up for 5am for work everyday and then train for this big fight and then have to deal with a draining dull 12 hour shift with an achohlic who use to be in the navy. My head is fine now, i did have doctors do tests on me and everything was fine. I was angry because I've woken up to a pointless argument which had nothing to do with my former work colleague and my mother was screaming at me too. I was calm as anything master I could of easily assaulted the guy at work or verbally abused him but I did the correct thing and walked away and spoke to my boss ok the phone after I had been to the hospital. It's rare I ever get angry and it came out because my mum pushed me too far and I'm not an aggressive person but I'm human and everybody can get wound up and lose it. Especially when I'm training and dieting and doing countless 12 hour shifts with low life's like this guy was.

Anyway I got back to trained Today and the owner of the gym posted this on Facebook about me. I could of easily sat at home feeling sorry for myself or i could of got back to the gym and carry on what I've started and do what I can do. I also did a 5 mile run after because I didn't do that much in the gym just light shadow boxing , ab work and some ring step ups.

I'm not going to let this situation turn into a negative. I won't fight again this year and fingers crossed this will give me good preparation time to turn into a decent 12 stone fighter in the new year.

[IamInuit]

Oh well. Its not as if you are the first fighter with a hand problem At least you never had a punch up with a glass shower stall like Zab Judah.

[Andre]

Good luck Tam these things have a way of working out for the best if you simply allow them to. New things will pop up for you mate, go with your instincts and follow your heart.

[Memphis]

Could have sworn you fell off a bike?

[Dia bando]

Trouble is we can all lose it sometimes mate, it's better than giving someone a smack hope you
heal soon Tam.

[beenKOed]

Well dang Tam, that sucks.


Anger can be a bit of an issue when training (or when you're used to training and you stop) you need to have other outlets other than just training. The clearer your head is from frustration and anger the sharper you will be.

Take care of yourself, it's good that you are away from the older gent who treats you like a child, but this is not going to be something solved so easily. You may feel as though anger helps you in the ring, but that can be very difficult to turn off outside the ring....I had that issue moving on from my days of playing sports.

I'm the most calmest and relax person ever, that was out of character from me. But you can only provoke somebody no matter how calm they are to a certain point. I rarely lose my temper, and at least I didn't do it to the guy at work. I walked away and didn't say a word. It was the mature decision. But when your own mother is screaming at you and pushing you , and you're already angry and upset I just had to let my emotion out and I would never in a million years do that to my own mother no matter how horrible she was being but I saw red and I'm having to pay the price for it now. It was a stupid mistake but we are human at especially when this company has me up at 5am doing 12 hour shifts 8 days on the bounce and me training so much and people acting funny with me it all got too much.

I'm fine now, it's happened. I've sorted everything with the boss, and my mum. I've got myself a new job and life goes on.

Nobody likes to hear this type of pap, I know I didn't, but sometimes things do work out for the best. Take some time away from the gym and figure out what brought you to where things got away from you. You think you're fine now, but slow everything down and think some more.
Lack of sleep, pressure/too many demands, overly optimistic priorities are all triggers for meltdowns. Take the time to really figure it out, there's only one Tam, so don't try to do the work of three.