Bright and early, we met up and headed out together to the fight location, Suwon.
I must admit here, it felt so good to see our club's name as one of many boxing clubs participating in the amateur tournament as today's tournament marked a first ever for Hulk's.
We had taken a once stranger, accepted him as a Hulkie, turned them into a talented boxer, and have labelled him as tournament-ready. Next step is to make him a pro.
I estimate that there were over 300 in attendance and it felt great to be one of many boxing clubs represented.
Even before our boxer's wins, Snickers and I were quite the proud coaches. Today we publicly represented Hulk's and that in itself felt so official, as if everything up until today was just unnoticed. Now there's an official fight record trail of our boxing club. We're no longer just the boxing club that attends tournaments but one that also participates.
And not only are we one that participates but we're also one that stops the show too.
Kato won his debut fight [first ever fight] with a TKO in the first round at 58 seconds.
We then waited several hours, long into the late afternoon for his second fight.
It was so exciting to stand ringside and watch all the hardwork and dedication we've put into this particular boxer play out in the fight. Everything we had taught him all was tested today.
And he won... again. His second fight ended in the second round at 46 seconds, TKO!!!
And I don't know who was prouder of him, his own father WOW or Snickers and I.
A huge thank you here to Kato, for really being so committed to his boxing and really giving it his all today. I know it takes a dedicated team to make him the boxer that he proved to be today but I also know it takes a lot of heart to make a boxer great and he's got such a passion for boxing. I'm so incredibly curious and excited about what the future holds for him as a boxer!!!
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