I know You Enjoy Ripping On Andrew

[Trainer Monkey]

I was OK and my record was against lesser opponants. When I stepped up and ended up in the Jr. Olympics I was TKOd... all my losses were TKO. I was unable to continue... always got up... but couldn't continue. As hard as I worked my defense never progressed... I just didn't have the vision. That was my point.

I'm a bit hard on myself sometimes but that's not a bad thing.

Naww,if you arent hard on yourself,youll never have the desire needed for improvement.
Im brutal on myself,Ill be the first to tell you,I slip for crap,I know how to,but once the bell rings I forget to do it often enough,relying on blocking and reach instead.
And handing me a jump rope is on par with an industry practical joke

What happened to me was I just didn't mind getting hit. It didn't hurt or jar me so I'd walk through two to land one... Thing is is that it only takes one to ring your bell. I loved to brawl and always took pride in the amount of guys I stopped with headgear on...


Namatter how may times we worked on it I couldn't put defense and offense together to be able to counter and slip... Like I said, the vision just wasn't there. I had the training and determination but some guys just aren't built to do some things.

Some things can be learned and some can't... For me anyway, that was one of them, sadly.

My problem has allways been fighting middle ground,because I dont slip enough,In tight,hey I grew up around Philly your in my wheel well,Ive got long arms so outside is fine and dandy,but middle of the road where you need to slip more,if Im going to take a hard shot,thats where it will be.
I allways thought that with the slipping,alot of my problem was I was never comfortable throwing an extended uppercut,inside I love the punch,but in the middle range where you have to extend it a bit,I was never comfortable,Id rather throw a lunging cross,or a straight right instead