Really got good on the jump rope with the boxer skip, I really always underestimated this workout, big difference its made on my leg stamina. I worked with one of the pro boxers at the MMA gym one of those weeks and he put me on the rope for 3 rounds and I about died that night. Now last night I got in 3 rounds like it was nothing and shifting weight back and forth from one foot to the other doing the boxer skip with good rhythm. I learned that this is crucial to train to instinctively be able to shift weight, which is huge for boxing, something I never really realized before.

Last night I went to the football field to do my sprint circuit and couldn’t do it because they had a football game going. This ended up being a blessing in disguise because I think I needed a break, Ive been overdoing it. I woke up this morning and had a phenomenal workout. 1 round warmup on the rope, 2 great rounds of shadow boxing, 3 great rounds on the heavy bag. My hands are feeling the best they ever have. Been working on some great drills to refine my technique. I also hit a full leg/ab workout, all this from’6:15-7:15 before work. Sprints tonight sparring session tomorrow baby.

I can't fathom doing even a 10th of the workouts you do. I am a regular gym goer but I mainly do lifting and the occasional 30-45 minute cardio class. Even those short classes have me almost dying, I imagine you would do them without breaking a sweat. It's incredible how much the human body can achieve if you put the work in.

Not something I am willing to do but I love reading your journey, you're putting your heart and soul into it and you should be incredibly proud of yourself regardless of how the fights go.

Best of luck!

I've gone off the deep end with boxing, even back when I fought I never used to shadow box like I do now, never jumped rope, never touched a lot of these drills I've been working on to tighten up my fundamentals. Never used to focus on my hands on the heavy bag either like I do now. I realize that the MMA gym that I used to train at was primarily a jujitsu oriented gym, that coach really didn't know the striking game but looking back at my time there with old eyes I realize he was really trying to get better at it with his work with me. He had other guys that were WAAAAY better on the ground than I was, and I remember he would try to work on their stand up and get them to keep fights standing but they wouldn't listen, the minute there was any challenge they would take it to the ground(and usually win it within seconds, the ground game of that gym was top level). With me he had a kid that had the balls to keep fights standing so he really focused on me with 1 on 1's those days and by my last 2 fights I was really comfortable throwing punches and being hit in the face. My win over Jeremiah Riggs I really shined with punches, landing some good 3-4 strike combos, bobbing and weaving around his counters.

But after working with some of the guys I've worked with at the new MMA gym I'm at now, and doing the work on my own these past 2 weeks I realize I'm at another level now and that I really did not understand boxing back then. I've really fallen in love with it.

Also realizing now that I have to forget everything about how I used to fight. I'm no longer 145-155 pounds and flexible, now it's awkard when I kick, and my reflexes seem to be a little slower. I'm 170 pounds now and everything about my fighting style has to change as I get closer to seriously training for another fight I'm really thinking about that a lot. I really need to focus on my pure boxing, defense, and I feel like I need to use my strength/power that I have now, take fights to the ground, ground and pound, and use the Jujitsu that is like an instinct to me now on the ground. That is something I feel like I've done really well with at the new MMA gym I started at back in July, going with some high level guys, some guys that have a lot of size on me I feel like I've more than held my own, which is incredible considering how long it's been since I touched a mat or even thought about Jujitsu seriously. I just can't imagine anybody at my weight 170 being as strong as I am, I'm sweeping, taking down, and defending takedowns grappling guys that are 200 to 240. I'm wrapping my mind around adapting my fighting style, I used to rely on kicks, mauy thai style combos, knees, keeping fights standing and being the faster more flexible guy. Now I need to fight with strength, and trust that I'm the better wrestler with a better ground game than any of these guys I've researched in my weight class around here.

Aug 24, 2024 19:24:25 GMT Neo Zeed said:

I've gone off the deep end with boxing, even back when I fought I never used to shadow box like I do now, never jumped rope, never touched a lot of these drills I've been working on to tighten up my fundamentals. Never used to focus on my hands on the heavy bag either like I do now. I realize that the MMA gym that I used to train at was primarily a jujitsu oriented gym, that coach really didn't know the striking game but looking back at my time there with old eyes I realize he was really trying to get better at it with his work with me. He had other guys that were WAAAAY better on the ground than I was, and I remember he would try to work on their stand up and get them to keep fights standing but they wouldn't listen, the minute there was any challenge they would take it to the ground(and usually win it within seconds, the ground game of that gym was top level). With me he had a kid that had the balls to keep fights standing so he really focused on me with 1 on 1's those days and by my last 2 fights I was really comfortable throwing punches and being hit in the face. My win over Jeremiah Riggs I really shined with punches, landing some good 3-4 strike combos, bobbing and weaving around his counters.

But after working with some of the guys I've worked with at the new MMA gym I'm at now, and doing the work on my own these past 2 weeks I realize I'm at another level now and that I really did not understand boxing back then. I've really fallen in love with it.

Also realizing now that I have to forget everything about how I used to fight. I'm no longer 145-155 pounds and flexible, now it's awkard when I kick, and my reflexes seem to be a little slower. I'm 170 pounds now and everything about my fighting style has to change as I get closer to seriously training for another fight I'm really thinking about that a lot. I really need to focus on my pure boxing, defense, and I feel like I need to use my strength/power that I have now, take fights to the ground, ground and pound, and use the Jujitsu that is like an instinct to me now on the ground. That is something I feel like I've done really well with at the new MMA gym I started at back in July, going with some high level guys, some guys that have a lot of size on me I feel like I've more than held my own, which is incredible considering how long it's been since I touched a mat or even thought about Jujitsu seriously. I just can't imagine anybody at my weight 170 being as strong as I am, I'm sweeping, taking down, and defending takedowns grappling guys that are 200 to 240. I'm wrapping my mind around adapting my fighting style, I used to rely on kicks, mauy thai style combos, knees, keeping fights standing and being the faster more flexible guy. Now I need to fight with strength, and trust that I'm the better wrestler with a better ground game than any of these guys I've researched in my weight class around here.

Hell yeah. You gotta drown these dudes. Especially the younger ones. They'll probably be quicker standing up, just the benefits of youthful reflexes, so you'll have to use technique (especially footwork) to offset an initial burst. They'll probably be front runners, let 'em gas, then you can start bullying them, take them down at will, absolutely smother them on the ground with ground and pound. They'll be nothing they can do down there, they'll feel like they're suffocating. Cardio, cardio, cardio. 

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I know people think Im crazy about my conspiracy theory that Warrior movie was somehow inspired by me and my little brother(and our dad). There are too many coincidences in those characters that always struck me as odd. Me and my brother fought that night in 2008 when they filmed the scenes for Bruno movie that Sacha Baron Cohen made. I been thinking about this because I took a pic of me and my little brother last weekend after our sparring session and looks just like the brothers from the movie.

So I did a little digging and found a connection. The cinematographer for the Bruno movie Anthony Hardwick that was most definitely there that night, both him and the guy that wrote the screen play for Warrior Cliff Dorfman worked on the show Entourage. Warrior was filmed in 2010 I believe so Im sure that screen play was being written around the time of our fights that June 2008.

Too many coincidences. I believe we were Chuck Wepner’ed

Did a little more digging and could only find 3 more crew members that worked on Bruno that were also working on Entourage around the same time as that writer that wrote Warrior was writing/acting on the show.

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We were younger and prettier in 2008 I didnt have the beard and a little thicker hairline:



If you were there that night to see how my brothers fight went down with all that happened with me and my dad in his corner youd swear that was us in that movie. After finding a few connections its at least highly possible.

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Am I crazy in thinking this Cliff Dorfman used me and my little brother to base these characters(the brothers and dad in the movie Warrior) on? This is just all big coincidences right and I'm just kinda reaching? Honestly I'm not the biggest fan of the movie I mean it was ok but I thought they just tried a little too hard and pushed it over into corny when they could have reined in some elements of the story and had something great. I did like Kurt Angle's role in the film.

But I've always found these two brothers and the dad oddly similar to me and my little brother and our dad. Not just in looks/contrast but also the personalities of these characters. You have to go back to the night of our first fights in 2008, this event was the event where they were shooting the big scenes for the Sacha Baron Cohen movie Bruno. They had like a $1,000,000 set up of lights and cameras in this little arena in Texarkana Arkansas. Cameras were on us backstage getting ready.

To give some backstory on why this was oddly coincidental, my dad had a major alcohol and drug problem that really came to a head just a month or so before that fight. I was staying with him and my little brother after a big breakup with my first son's mom, but he started to really get out there on the substance abuse he was a massive mess that was losing everything including his house. I clashed with him and moved out and gave up on the guy, while my little brother stuck it out with him helping him get another place to rent. This was around the time we got booked on those fights, they said they were filming a reality tv show that night not saying anything about any Sacha Baron Cohen movie(for those who don't know this is the actor that played Borat, Bruno was like the follow up movie where they were duping crowds and people ala Jackass with big prank stunts, including one at the end of the MMA show we fought at).

So my little brother fights first that night against a huge black guy that outweighs in him by 27 pounds. My brother followed all of my advice and fucked the guy up pretty bad, at one point they stopped it to check the guy's cut and my dad, plastered drunk, decides to leave his seat in the crowd and jump the front rail to join me in my brother's corner. We had it out in a huge argument where I was trying to get him to go sit back down, he was fucking wasted, It was a pretty emotional little moment. The ref came over and calmed us down and said it was fine for him to be in our corner but we had to crouch down so the crowd can see. My brother finished the fight with uppercuts within seconds after they restarted the fight, the guy had to be carried out of the cage by his team mates. The crowd pop when they raised my brothers hand when he won is something I will never forget, the place went absolutely nuts I never heard a crowd do that in all the MMA shows I been to. It was comparable to the ECW pop when Sabu and Taz finally were face to face when they turned the lights on, I always get goosebumps thinking about it.

They caught all that on their cameras. I fought later that night in the finale against the baddest most experienced guy in the building and ran right at him like Wanderlei Silva type aggression. I did pretty good landed a running front push kick then unloaded with a flurry of punches, landed some good shots in the dirty boxing clinch, then like a dumbass broke away from him and took it down to the ground. I rolled out of a few submission attempts then we got back up and I got judo thrown end over end and slammed into the canvas. I kept my composure and got him in my guard but he picked me straight up and slammed me on my back. He faked like he was about to do it again and instead came down with a right hand that broke my nose, the 3-4 follow up shots knocked me out and I ate about 10 shots after I was out that tore my face up pretty good. That guy was 14-2, I was 0-0. None of the footage of me or my brother's fights was used in the Bruno movie. 

So it's just a coincidence that several crew that were regulars on Entourage, grips, camera men, cinematagraphers, were there that night working and filming all that for Bruno, and the guy that wrote Warrior just also happens to be from that cliq(he was a staff writer on season 2 of Entourage)?? I looked up one of the guys facebooks and hes got pics from premiers and after partys from the Entourage days they were all pretty close. They filmed Warrior in Summer of 2009 a year later after that event. So what are the chances? Somebody tell me I'm just reaching and there's nothing there, this was all just coincidence.

Pretty spectacular night back in the MMA gym. I did great but still even after 3 weeks of hardcore running and cardio just gassed the fuck out at one point later in the night hitting the focus mitts. I know I'm in better shape than that after all I've been doing so I'm just thinking I've got too much muscle and also muscles just wore out from weight lifting. I did back, biceps, and triceps this morning from 6 to 8 am since I had the day off from work for Labor day I also got plenty of rest. Went in there on fire though and kicked some ass until about the last 20 minutes arms just completely petered out on me hitting the mitts. My footwork is drastically better though from all the work I've put in the last 3 weeks on my own. Also love the respect I get from everybody at this gym it was a big deal to have me back tonight, several younger guys that started after I did all definitely look up to me was able to help a lot of them out with some good advice tonight. Feeling pretty good about this man. I'm going to change up my routine and do all my weight lifting on Friday(legs), Saturday(chest, shoulders), and Sunday(back, arms) from now on so I can be fresh for this gym on Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday. Getting my long distance runs in on Friday nights, sparring with my little brother and doing our own thing Saturdays. We are now 8 weeks out from fight night. This thing will be on IPPV on Triller app one of the biggest events in this area all year, this promotion goes all out and puts on a pretty damn good show for being minor league(they were on UFC Fight Pass but haven't been streaming any new shows on there since 2021).

Kilgore I was talking to somebody maybe my little brother and it came up that I honestly can't think of any MMA fighters that took this long of a layoff and came back to fight. 16 years. Mikey Burnett I think fought in 1999 and tried to come back in 2006 and maybe fought on the Ultimate Fighter that's less than 10 years though. I thought George Foreman retired after the loss to Ali and came back in the 90's and won the title but looking closer the Ron Lyle fight was after Ali and he was actually pretty active into the 80's and early 90's(I do remember going with my mom and dad to their friends house to see Foreman vs Holyfield when I was 7, such a great fight I watched the whole thing clash of the titans, always loved Holyfield). In all your years as a boxing fan can you think of any boxers that tried to come back after 16 years or more?

Sept 3, 2024 2:39:53 GMT Neo Zeed said:

Kilgore I was talking to somebody maybe my little brother and it came up that I honestly can't think of any MMA fighters that took this long of a layoff and came back to fight. 16 years. Mikey Burnett I think fought in 1999 and tried to come back in 2006 and maybe fought on the Ultimate Fighter that's less than 10 years though. I thought George Foreman retired after the loss to Ali and came back in the 90's and won the title but looking closer the Ron Lyle fight was after Ali and he was actually pretty active into the 80's and early 90's(I do remember going with my mom and dad to their friends house to see Foreman vs Holyfield when I was 7, such a great fight I watched the whole thing clash of the titans, always loved Holyfield). In all your years as a boxing fan can you think of any boxers that tried to come back after 16 years or more?

There's a decent amount of 5-8 year gaps, but once you get to 10 years, it's extremely rare.

George Foreman is the gold standard. The way he did it was so smart too. Really took his time stepping up the competition. Once he finally started facing competition that people had heard of, he was in Year 3 or 4 of his comeback. Most at his stature (maybe all) would have cashed out in an immediate big fight, but George wanted to get good again and work on a new style as an older fighter.

Tommy Morrison had a gap of 11 years. His comeback was a little suspect, for health reasons, but it has to be said, was extremely impressive considering the layoff, and circumstances.

Jack Johnson's last sanctioned fight was 1931 and there's evidence that he fought again in 1945, and that's sometimes cited as a long layoff, but it's also pretty likely that he never really stopped fighting and was fighting unsanctioned cellar fights pretty regularly.

There's a British fighter named Steve Ward who had his last fight in 1987, then returned in 2015. That was more of a novelty, though. But that's the longest that I know of.

There was also a fighter named Dewey Bozella, which is someone you should Wikipedia. He was an amateur boxer, wrongfully imprisoned, served 26 years before finally being acquitted. When he got out, he made his pro debut at 52 years old. He was boxing in prison the whole time, so it wasn't a pure layoff, but still a story that will inspire. 

Sept 3, 2024 3:14:37 GMT Kilgore said:

Sept 3, 2024 2:39:53 GMT Neo Zeed said:

Kilgore I was talking to somebody maybe my little brother and it came up that I honestly can't think of any MMA fighters that took this long of a layoff and came back to fight. 16 years. Mikey Burnett I think fought in 1999 and tried to come back in 2006 and maybe fought on the Ultimate Fighter that's less than 10 years though. I thought George Foreman retired after the loss to Ali and came back in the 90's and won the title but looking closer the Ron Lyle fight was after Ali and he was actually pretty active into the 80's and early 90's(I do remember going with my mom and dad to their friends house to see Foreman vs Holyfield when I was 7, such a great fight I watched the whole thing clash of the titans, always loved Holyfield). In all your years as a boxing fan can you think of any boxers that tried to come back after 16 years or more?

There's a decent amount of 5-8 year gaps, but once you get to 10 years, it's extremely rare.

George Foreman is the gold standard. The way he did it was so smart too. Really took his time stepping up the competition. Once he finally started facing competition that people had heard of, he was in Year 3 or 4 of his comeback. Most at his stature (maybe all) would have cashed out in an immediate big fight, but George wanted to get good again and work on a new style as an older fighter.

Tommy Morrison had a gap of 11 years. His comeback was a little suspect, for health reasons, but it has to be said, was extremely impressive considering the layoff, and circumstances.

Jack Johnson's last sanctioned fight was 1931 and there's evidence that he fought again in 1945, and that's sometimes cited as a long layoff, but it's also pretty likely that he never really stopped fighting and was fighting unsanctioned cellar fights pretty regularly.

There's a British fighter named Steve Ward who had his last fight in 1987, then returned in 2015. That was more of a novelty, though. But that's the longest that I know of.

There was also a fighter named Dewey Bozella, which is someone you should Wikipedia. He was an amateur boxer, wrongfully imprisoned, served 26 years before finally being acquitted. When he got out, he made his pro debut at 52 years old. He was boxing in prison the whole time, so it wasn't a pure layoff, but still a story that will inspire. 

I found this list from a 2004 forum post

Here is a list I compiled some timne ago -- any additions??

Layoffs of 10 years or More

Fighter Layoff Comments

Doc Odum 22 yrs. 11 mos. Dentist comes back at age 46 after 1 bout in 1956
Freddy DeKerpel 21 yrs. 3 mos. Belgian heavy returns in draw against Coopman
Levi Forte (?)confirm? 20 yrs., 10 mos. Former Floyd Patterson foe returns in 4-round loss
Jerry Evans 20 LH Contender – to be checked
Jean-Pierre Coopman 18 yrs. Former Ali opponent returns against DeKerpel
Bobby Halpern 18 yrs. Clubfighter returned after prison stretch
Carlos Palomino 17 yrs. 6 mos. Former welter champ went 4-1
Kenny Lane 16 yrs., 9 mos. Perennial lightweight contender returned at age 50
Tony Ayala 16 yrs., 9 mos. Rapist went 5-1 before being arrested again
Fred Houpe 16 yrs. 5 mos. Somehow gets licensed after being retired - blind in one eye

Man, totally forgot about Palomino and Ayala. Those are the best examples after George. 

Im struggling to find any for MMA, a sport that is really only
31 years old, so my 16 year comeback is half of the whole sport’s existence. Most of the OGs from the first decade never came back because of how rapidly the sport evolved. So somebody from 95-96-97 for them to come back after 16 years would be them coming back in 2011-2012-2013, when it was totally different sport. Guys from 2003-2004 pre-TUF boom 16 years later would be 2019-2020?

This has to be one of the longest layoffs a fighter has ever come back from in MMA to fight again, 16 years. We can do it.

Sept 3, 2024 22:57:06 GMT Neo Zeed said:

Im struggling to find any for MMA, a sport that is really only
31 years old, so my 16 year comeback is half of the whole sport’s existence. Most of the OGs from the first decade never came back because of how rapidly the sport evolved. So somebody from 95-96-97 for them to come back after 16 years would be them coming back in 2011-2012-2013, when it was totally different sport. Guys from 2003-2004 pre-TUF boom 16 years later would be 2019-2020?

This has to be one of the longest layoffs a fighter has ever come back from in MMA to fight again, 16 years. We can do it.

Fuck yeah. Making some hardcore history. 

Oh its on boys, laid off the weights yesterday and today and had my best nights yet, cardio is on fucking point buddy, kicked some ass tonight!

Also the biggest comeback I could find was Pat Militich last fought 2008 then came back and fought again in 2023 lost via corner stoppage, 15 years he must have been pretty damn old by 2023 in his 50’s?

Edit: he was 55, wow

The fucking adrenaline is a problem. I was so amped up from tonight's training that I can not sleep and have to be up for work in a few hours.

Also found another long layoff/comeback, Fred Ettish that fought in UFC 2 in 1994 made a comeback in 2009 and won a fight, that's impressive. 15 years. I always root for the old school guys those were my favorite UFC's. I know when I met Mark Hall in Houston at the Kimbo vs Dada 5000 event he was talking about making a comeback, I figured that Royce Gracie vs Ken Shamrock fight that night would inspired a lot of those old timers to give it a shot in 2016-2017. Had Hall came back to fight again that would have been almost 20 years in between fights since I believe his last fight was the IVC tournament in Brazil where he chinned the guy's eyeball socket in 1997(I have that event on DVD it's the one where Wanderlei Silva fought through the nastiest cut ever, like 30 stitches).

Aug 30, 2024 1:16:15 GMT Neo Zeed said:

Am I crazy in thinking this Cliff Dorfman used me and my little brother to base these characters(the brothers and dad in the movie Warrior) on? This is just all big coincidences right and I'm just kinda reaching? Honestly I'm not the biggest fan of the movie I mean it was ok but I thought they just tried a little too hard and pushed it over into corny when they could have reined in some elements of the story and had something great. I did like Kurt Angle's role in the film.

But I've always found these two brothers and the dad oddly similar to me and my little brother and our dad. Not just in looks/contrast but also the personalities of these characters. You have to go back to the night of our first fights in 2008, this event was the event where they were shooting the big scenes for the Sacha Baron Cohen movie Bruno. They had like a $1,000,000 set up of lights and cameras in this little arena in Texarkana Arkansas. Cameras were on us backstage getting ready.

To give some backstory on why this was oddly coincidental, my dad had a major alcohol and drug problem that really came to a head just a month or so before that fight. I was staying with him and my little brother after a big breakup with my first son's mom, but he started to really get out there on the substance abuse he was a massive mess that was losing everything including his house. I clashed with him and moved out and gave up on the guy, while my little brother stuck it out with him helping him get another place to rent. This was around the time we got booked on those fights, they said they were filming a reality tv show that night not saying anything about any Sacha Baron Cohen movie(for those who don't know this is the actor that played Borat, Bruno was like the follow up movie where they were duping crowds and people ala Jackass with big prank stunts, including one at the end of the MMA show we fought at).

So my little brother fights first that night against a huge black guy that outweighs in him by 27 pounds. My brother followed all of my advice and fucked the guy up pretty bad, at one point they stopped it to check the guy's cut and my dad, plastered drunk, decides to leave his seat in the crowd and jump the front rail to join me in my brother's corner. We had it out in a huge argument where I was trying to get him to go sit back down, he was fucking wasted, It was a pretty emotional little moment. The ref came over and calmed us down and said it was fine for him to be in our corner but we had to crouch down so the crowd can see. My brother finished the fight with uppercuts within seconds after they restarted the fight, the guy had to be carried out of the cage by his team mates. The crowd pop when they raised my brothers hand when he won is something I will never forget, the place went absolutely nuts I never heard a crowd do that in all the MMA shows I been to. It was comparable to the ECW pop when Sabu and Taz finally were face to face when they turned the lights on, I always get goosebumps thinking about it.

They caught all that on their cameras. I fought later that night in the finale against the baddest most experienced guy in the building and ran right at him like Wanderlei Silva type aggression. I did pretty good landed a running front push kick then unloaded with a flurry of punches, landed some good shots in the dirty boxing clinch, then like a dumbass broke away from him and took it down to the ground. I rolled out of a few submission attempts then we got back up and I got judo thrown end over end and slammed into the canvas. I kept my composure and got him in my guard but he picked me straight up and slammed me on my back. He faked like he was about to do it again and instead came down with a right hand that broke my nose, the 3-4 follow up shots knocked me out and I ate about 10 shots after I was out that tore my face up pretty good. That guy was 14-2, I was 0-0. None of the footage of me or my brother's fights was used in the Bruno movie. 

So it's just a coincidence that several crew that were regulars on Entourage, grips, camera men, cinematagraphers, were there that night working and filming all that for Bruno, and the guy that wrote Warrior just also happens to be from that cliq(he was a staff writer on season 2 of Entourage)?? I looked up one of the guys facebooks and hes got pics from premiers and after partys from the Entourage days they were all pretty close. They filmed Warrior in Summer of 2009 a year later after that event. So what are the chances? Somebody tell me I'm just reaching and there's nothing there, this was all just coincidence.

I’ll have what you’re smoking. 

Sept 5, 2024 6:11:56 GMT Neo Zeed said:

The fucking adrenaline is a problem. I was so amped up from tonight's training that I can not sleep and have to be up for work in a few hours.

Isn't this the worst? I always get hyped when there's a night game o my soccer schedule because it feels more important (champions league vibes), but it always means that you are written off for the next day.

Sept 6, 2024 0:31:36 GMT @admin said:

Sept 5, 2024 6:11:56 GMT Neo Zeed said:

The fucking adrenaline is a problem. I was so amped up from tonight's training that I can not sleep and have to be up for work in a few hours.

Isn't this the worst? I always get hyped when there's a night game o my soccer schedule because it feels more important (champions league vibes), but it always means that you are written off for the next day.

Yes it throws a monkey wrench into everything and takes away from the next days training when you are running on 4-5 hours sleep. I havent smoked any ganj since May and cant for my job(and cardio) but damn that would be a great tool to kill that adrenaline a little bit and calm down for sleep, all natural.

Ok finally found a comeback from a layoff longer than mine(16 years); Bagama Nikabagamaev, he fought some big names in 2005-2006-2007 including fighting Filho on Pride Bushido 11. Last fight was 2013, did some prison time and made a comeback in 2022, so 17 years, thats the longest layoff I have found.

Whoops not that guy, this guy: Gregory Bouchelaghem last fight 2006 came back in 2023 no prison

Came back last year at 45 after 17 years out of the game and is currently on 3 fight win streak thats fucking inspiration right there

I accepted an offer from the promotion Im fighting for in October, a kickboxing bout set for September 28th at a big casino in Shreveport(its a boxing/kickboxing card). Opponent is coming up to Welterweight after fighting as a Lightweight, 2-3 MMA record 0-0 kickboxing, 26 years old, knocked out his last opponent in MMA in 7 seconds with one punch. Of course I took the fight, probably not the smartest move but too late to turn back now. Im just not one to turn down fights I guess when I get a call like that my pride is being challenged. Lifes a risk carnal.

Sept 7, 2024 2:27:10 GMT Neo Zeed said:

I accepted an offer from the promotion Im fighting for in October, a kickboxing bout set for September 28th at a big casino in Shreveport(it’s a boxing/kickboxing card). Opponent is coming up to Welterweight after fighting as a Lightweight, 2-3 MMA record 0-0 kickboxing, 26 years old, knocked out his last opponent in MMA in 7 seconds with one punch. Of course I took the fight, probably not the smartest move but too late to turn back now. Im just not one to turn down fights I guess when I get a call like that my pride is being challenged. Lifes a risk carnal.

Fuck that boy up! 

Sparring with my little brother yesterday we worked in a lot more kickboxing to get ready for the 28th, and its honestly pretty amazing how good he is still, just a freak athlete, nailed me right in the mouth with a spinning back fist that came out of nowhere and may have loosened my front teeth. Also he landed 2 or 3 perfectly executed superman punches from crazy range and hes 185 with maybe 4% bodyfat. In his prime I have no doubt he was a UFC main event caliber athlete if only he had gone after the training he would have been a big star no doubt. Ive seen him fuck a lot of guys up both on the street and in the cage with major intimidation factor. Ill never forget how shook the last guy he fought in MMA was, a better trained guy with more experience from a great team, that fight was over at the weigh ins. He came in the bathroom I was in about 30 minutes before their fight and I could see him shaking and the look on his face, I was legit worried about the guy. My brother messed his eye up with a punch and finished him with about 10 knees all in less than a minute.

I had to take pics yesterday for this event coming up on the 28th in various poses, they will crop and photoshop them for the event poster, sneak peak:

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Absolutely surreal after everything I been through the past 16 years, I'm officially on a fight card, pretty emotional stuff today is the 11 year anniversary of my little sister's death, I threw down in the MMA gym tonight and stood my ground both my eyes are black and my nose is busted. I'm in shape, I'm winning this fight.

Oooh fancy poster, how cool! You said this event is going to be streamed? We need to have a old fashioned PW watch party!