I'm not going to point fingers, name names, or expand upon beyond saying that Korea is having hard time assigning me a fight because they don't know how to treat me, as a foreigner or as one of their own. Consequently, I've been sitting on the sidelines, waiting for a fight, and training like any day now I'll get signed one. I was sure my fifth round knock out win in Thailand would win the interest of Korea, that they'd take me in as one of their own, and sign me for a fight. This never happened. This didn't happen and I'm sick of waiting for it to happen.
I've decided that if Korea isn't going to sign me a fight than I'm going to stage my own and broadcast it on national television.
This is the idea that KBS and I are now discussing. KBS still hasn't made a final decision as to whether or not they'll be doing a documentary on me but this was the pitch I threw them. The plan is next month to pair up with one of my buddy's boxing clubs here in Cheonan and host a large tournament at Hulk's. We'll invite some of my well-known professional boxing friends to attend, KBS will film it and it'll be later broadcasted in a documentary about me, "Amy the Boxer".
It's a hard thing, to be training so hard with no goal. I was able to keep up with the demands and consistency needed with my running because I had a goal, my first marathon. However the push for me to stay focused and dedicated to my boxing is hard, especially so because my coach is also my husband and we're always butting heads in training. Everyone who thinks having my husband as my coach must be a good thing seriously needs to try it out for one day and check their head. They're obviously more punch drunk than I am as a boxer. I'd have to say, on average, once a week one of our training sessions together either results in me sitting on the bedroom floor in tears or me throwing my gloves across the club in frustration. Training with Snickers as my coach puts a lot of stress on our relationship as a married couple because it's hard for me to disconnect being his wife and being his boxer while training so if I don't have a fight scheduled, well, why put the health of our marriage through such hardship?! Exactly. We're both equally passionate about the sport and both equally stubborn but we both fight for totally different reasons. Unlike me, Snickers is naturally a very talented fighter and so it makes it all that more frustrating to learn from him because I don't have that God-given talent and often he doesn't realize what's so easy for him isn't so easy for me. Regardless, we train together.
I was told to take a week off training but if KBS is a go for our sparring tournament than we'll be hosting in next month. It'll be my chance to really show myself so starting tomorrow I'll be jumping back into full training with hopes that KBS will pick me for their documentary.
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