Fighting again next March!

After a reasonably decent first fight followed by half a year of injuries, illness and laziness I'm finally fighting again.

So, on March 7 I'll be fighting on Shock n Awe 19, which is awesome because fighting on SnA has been my goal since I took up mma so I am very excited.

It'll be an ammy fight, 3x3 minute rounds, at 145 pounds. Apparently there are two opponent options for me: One is a fellow I watched fight at the last SnA which I really wish I'd paid more attention to or could remember anything about. It'd be an interesting one as he's more experienced than me having fought on a big show already, but he has been tapped by a training partner of mine which gives me some confidence. He normally fights at 135 though so my coach thinks its unlikely he'll take it which is fair enough.

I am doing an mma interclub next Sunday and I'm told if its an alright fight I'll probably just get matched against him so that'll be cool.

Some mild nervousness for this as my stand up still needs work. Starting to attend boxing classes a few times a week from now on so hopefully by the time March rolls round I'll be slightly better at not blocking punches with my face

Soooo yeah. That's it really. Obviously, if anyone fancies being around Portsmouth on March 7 and buying a ticket off me that would be lovely as I do have sales to make :hat:

There's normally a party after the show too so it'd be a nice chance to chill out and have a couple drinks with some of you.

Not much else to say really other than that I'm incredibly excited to get to fight again, especially on this show. If I do this and literally nothing after then I will have achieved the big goal I started aiming for 3 odd years ago. It's going to be a very awesome night

 

Between my bjj and the wrestling and striking I can expect shouted at me then I'll have this tied up nicely

 

30 mate. Bit pricey I know, but the show's one of the better ones. Lot of fights, and the last one had one of the cagewarriors top tier main eventing. Plus I get a cut so think of it as helping a poor student pay his dentist bills

 

You'll grab them off me, I just haven't been given them yet. Although I might be able to grab some. A mistake I made last time was not reminding people to get them off me and I ended up short on sales

 

Was on my phone earlier so couldn't reply to this properly. Thank you very much for the sparring offer mate. I'll probably take you up on it in the new year. If its ok with you I might ask around and see if anyone would be interested in coming up too.

 

Aaron, if you have any space to train, even your front room, then I'm up for coming down one weekend to go through some boxing.

 

Legend mate. Not a huge amount of space in my flat, but if you're ok with it my gym's open weekends. If not, there's a few parks nearby.

 

I've messaged my K1 coach to see if any of his guys would be interested. They just hosted an open sparring session between a few gyms that in hindsight I should of asked you about. Seriously appreciate that offers for help though guys. You're awesome.

 

I double checked this just now, and sadly, there's no way to buy them online and credit them to me which sucks (my ability to sell tickets, or not sell them, was a very large sticking point in whether I would be allowed to fight or not) so what I'll probably do is post them to anyone who wants one once I get them in the New Year and figure something out for payment. Bank transfer probably.