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.

Saturday, September 30, 2017

Fight Day in The Philippines

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It was fight day here in the Philippines and with a loaded fight card with four championship 
belts on the line you best believe I was there!

 Ran into one of my sparring partners there, Bea.  She was there doing a piece on the fights and she introduced me to Gretchen, one of today's female fighters.
Fights in the Philippines, they're on a whole other level that I never did quite see in Korea or in Canada.  This particular fighter got caught with a body shot to the liver and down he went.
Down he stayed too, for a while.. for quite a long while.  Fight was called.
In came Gretchen for her fight against a fighter from Thailand.
For a small fighter, Gretchen definitely has packed on a lot of muscle and throws a mean punch.
There was another female fight on the card, it was THE fight I had come specifically to watch.
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