BIGGEST Highlight of my Day... Thursday, April 16

Today may very well be the day that changes the rest of my days here in Korea and so I’ve decided to skip out on my usual highlights of my days style and just blabber my head off.

As many of you know I had a meeting in Seoul today at the Korean Boxing Commission and so I raced off to Seoul for that. Upon arriving I was then informed why exactly I had been asked to attend.

In November of this year Korea will be hosting a week long WBC international boxing conference in Jeju Island. They have already been actively planning this but have asked me to join their committee… how wicked is that?! Seriously, I am so honoured and so thrilled to be so in on the action, so in on what very well might be the biggest and best thing to come to Korea in the world of boxing. November’s conference is going to showcase some world title matches but we’re also planning on bringing and attracting more than just boxers and sports enthusiasts to the conference with some great ideas we threw around the table today.

There were a little under a dozen committee members present today. The man (Mr. Kim) I had met at Panty Boy Jr.’s match in February, the one who impressed me with his English, was none other than the committee’s leader and the man who sat to my left was one of the ring officials; I definitely recognized him.

This is going to be big… real big.

Lots was discussed at the meeting but it wasn’t until the meeting ended that my ears definitely perked up. A couple of us headed out for chicken and got talking. I had mentioned to Mr. Kim that I’d love to just focus on my boxing. I love my teaching but teaching is something I can do till I’m gray-haired and old but I won’t always be able to pursue my boxing. “Do you want to be the next Korean champ?” he asked me. “That’s the plan” I responded with. Junior Mint is always telling me that I’m going to make champ status one day but tonight Mr. Kim got me really thinking about it. Currently in Korea, there is no female flyweight champion and so the position is open. We discussed who I'd have to fight to take the position and so he talked about possibly scheduling me a fight for May 22. Talks of me fighting at the November's conference were also discussed. Even talks about all of us vacationing together at a remote privately owned house that sports it's own on-location boxing ring was brought up at dinner.

Regardless of what becomes of Mr. Kim’s chat with me, I feel greatly honoured to be a part of this committee. We definitely have a lot of work cut out for ourselves but it’s going to definitely worth it.

After the meeting I felt like a kid all over again, wanting to run home and tell my mom the good news. Of course I couldn’t exactly do that but when Mr. Not-So-Nice-Guy randomly called me up, I agreed to meet up with him before heading back to Cheonan. I must have talked over a mile a minute to him but he listened as best as he could, hugged me and called me “Champ”.

It’s been at least over 6 months since I’ve seen him but he’s still just as convinced that he’s in love with me as ever and so tonight’s casual conversation that started off with me blabbering my head off ended on quite a serious note. He’s still working as a personal bodyguard for the top dog in Seoul’s 63 Building but is currently training to be a MMA fighter. I didn’t realize he being a bodyguard for such a successfully powerful man meant wearing a gun though. That definitely freaked me out when I spotted it in his personal office. It was just lying there like it was nothing more important or deserving of any kind of attention than a pencil sharpener. Anyways, we sat in his office with the lights off because I knew what he was going to say but knew it’d probably mean me blushing and squirming with shyness.

Tonight’s turn of events, from the boxing meeting to meeting up with Mr. Not-So-Nice-Guy may very well change everything for me. I will be traveling to Seoul every Thursday now for committee meetings and that’s more than fine with me; it’s great. My boxing has really opened a lot of doors for me here in Korea.. TV shows, interviews, Adidas, the Cheonan Trump, photo shoots… and so I will forever be grateful to Egerton Marcus who put a passion for boxing in me when he agreed to personal train me many years ago and showed me a glimpse of my potential.

I arrived in Cheonan way later than planned. Junior Mint was all eager to hear about my meeting but Q’s reaction was quite different. I’m beginning to think he likes me boxing as long as nothing really becomes of it.