It's a busy weekend for boxing here in Toronto. With the amateur boxers having both the Bronze Glove tournament and Rumble 6, and then the pro fight card at the Hershey Centre, there's a lot of boxing going down!!! The Bronze Glove tournament started yesterday and will go to Sunday. Rumble 6 was tonight and the Hershey Centre pro fights are tomorrow, Saturday. I'll be attending 2 of the 3 boxing events.
Tonight I attended Rumble 6 at the Adelaide Club. It was the first time I had been to this particular training facility so I was very curious about it. It is a fitness club that offers one-to-one boxing sessions so it's a gym, not a boxing club. And it's a very pretty and upscale fitness club too, wow -- a side bar lounge and squash courts, nice!
Tomorrow I'll be attending the pro fight card tournament at the Hershey Centre so I am super pumped about that. My sparring partner's teammate from Cabbagetown, the cook who makes me post boxing breakfast, is the main event so obviously the excitement to watch his fight is through the roof. It's funny because to see him at work with his hair net on and white cook uniform, you'd never guess that this sweet, clean cut country boy is a lean, mean, fighting machine but he is. We've talked a lot about his brutal early morning training and I am always humbled at the fact that he arrives at his boxing club for 5am training and then goes works a full time job. I have absolutely no reason to complain and I felt quite lazy in comparison to how hectic his days are, wow. He is a machine and I don't know how he does it. He must be fueled by pure determination and a love for the sport, well either that some super strong coffee and a ton of food.
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