As the story has it, one day I headed to the opposite side of the globe – the Flipside. I arrived in Korea February 16th, 2005 and thought I’d do a year, then leave. I was wrong. I stayed, launched my first company, Flipside Fitness, and then opened Korea's largest boxing club, Hulk's Boxing (now called Hulk's Club).

After 11.5yrs in Korea, I then picked up one day and returned to Toronto, Canada. But then I left again.

Now I live in the Philippines where I am the CEO and head coach of Empowered Clubhouse, the Philippines' first and only boxing clubhouse exclusively just for women. I also am the founder of the Lil' Sistas Project, CEO and designer of Slay Gear and Baa Baa Black Sheep .Ph.

Sunday, July 12, 2015

The Korean Hulk Hulks Out in the Ring... Sunday, July 12

It was a bitter sweet moment, standing ringside and watching as Snickers stepped into the ring with his family, friends and our Hulkies all in the stands cheering him on.  He clearly dominated the fight in four of the six rounds, knocking his opponent's mouth piece out three times with his mean hooks and destroying his opponents face with his clean hard jabs, and yet it ended in a draw.

We received that draw as if it was a loss though it's not... feels like it though.

We loss to the politics of KBC -- Snickers the older boxer, the former champ against the younger boxer, the kid with a clean-streak record.  Nothing said it louder quite like being approached by the coach of Snickers' opponent and hearing him say that it was Snickers' win.  

Maybe I've just lost my faith in Korean boxing and have become a sceptic, a disbeliever in it, I don't know, but this has become the struggle of my boxing career.  It hurt to see it now being imposed upon Snickers though.  I guess I thought him being Korean and from Korea that he'd be immune to it.  I felt terrible for him, we all did.  I was proud of his effort though and the fight he gave, regardless of if the outcome was dirty.  He had gained 7kgs to make weight-in and fight in a weight class much above that which he usually fights in.  He looked massive today; he was massive today.  There's definitely a presence to him in the ring; he just looks comfortable and in his natural element.  I think the added weight added some challenge to his fight, this was the heaviest he has ever fought at, but he looked in control.

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