Preparing for my 5th Fight - Plus Videos from 1-4

The past week I've been both physically and mentally preparing for my first fight in 18 months.  Thinking back, I regret all the years that passed and all of the opportunities I've missed.  Most of you don't know this but after my last fight with Malai while I was training at Phuket Top Team, I took a lot of short elbows to my mouth and nose.  You can hardly see them in the video, they're so fast and short, but trust me, I felt them.  Even though I won that fight, I broke my nose, and my teeth were loose for about 6 months afterwards.  I've learned how to keep my guard up and defend against elbows since then, so hopefully that won't happen again.  But it's one of those things you never actually practice in sparring.

After that, I moved to the island of Koh Tao, Thailand to teach Scuba Diving, and ended up getting a dream job in Borneo on a small resort island. Life was fantastic, I talk about it in detail in my book, but basically, I was living on an all expenses paid resort as an instructor and got to dive in some of the best locations on earth.  There were so many beautiful women from all around the world arriving daily, and I had some crazy adventures while I was there including one 12m under water.  But the problem was, scuba diving takes a lot out of you, both mentally and physically, it's stressful.  I ended up going back to the U.S. for almost 6 months and really got out of shape.  It took me 2.5 months to get back in it, and now I finally feel ready to fight again.  My goal is to finish this fight without any injuries and ask for another one straight away.  Ideally, and if everything goes well, I'd love to fight every 2 weeks while I'm here. *Keeps my fingers crossed.*

I expect to be much different in this upcoming fight, which is scheduled for this Monday, January 21st at Thapae Gate Stadium in Chiang Mai, Thailand.  Supposedly I'm fighting a big Thai guy that just got out of the Army, but things often change here last minute.  I was watching all of my old fights, analyzing what I could have done differently and done better.  For one thing, I've matured a lot in the years.  When you watch the videos you might see confidence, cockiness, even arrogance, but in reality, I was scared to death and extremely relieved after each of those fights finished.  On Monday, if nothing else, if I can go into this fight relaxed and not shit myself, I'll be happy.  I would really like to be able to step in the ring, get hit, and not think to myself, "Why the fuck am I putting myself through this."  But at least now I know that no matter what you see on TV, however well you think you know the fighter's personality, we really have no fucking idea what is going through his mind.  In the past years I've also learned to stop caring so much what other people think of me.  I used to get really hurt, seriously depressed anytime someone would post a negative comment about me on youtube or on an anonymous post somewhere.  Even though I knew that their opinion doesn't matter, they could be some 13 year old kid for all I know, or worse some 40 year old creepy guy, I still let it get to me.  I think this is why I support the "I Oppose Bullying" and Cyber-bullying campaigns so much.  If even I, a grown fucking man that isn't afraid  to step into a ring can get hurt from some idiot's comments, imagine how that feels to an insecure 17 year old kid.

Anyways, I sincerely hope that the world becomes a more positive place, and people stop putting others down to make themselves feel better.  But either way, I'm no longer going to let it affect me.  I fought my first fight with the wrong intentions.  I did it for the fame and for the fans.  I thought it would be easy.  It wasn't, and I lost.  It was the best thing that ever happened to me.  That was the day I decided that there are no short cuts to true victory, and that's the day I started adding a running routine to my workouts, and started sparring seriously.  Now I'm ready, i'm in the best shape of my life, have 31 years of knowledge behind me, had an amazing 10 week training camp, incredible sparring partners, (thank you Mirkko Moisar) and I feel strong and healthy.

For anyone in the Chiang Mai are, feel free to come by and watch me fight live.  For everyone else, I'll try to find someone to film the fight.  For now, here are the highlights from all of my previous fights 1-4 where you can see me change and mature, then lose my temper all over again throwing it all down the drain.





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Warm Regards, Johnny @ My Fight Camp

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