hi everyone,just got back but both julie and i were treated really good from start to finish by everyone,we also made some great friends out there including germaine!
the atmosphere was great in jamaica and watching some of my favourite thais fight live for the first time was awesome-yodsanklai--bloody machine you could hear the kicks in an open air massive stadium,he was landing 4 or 5 right uppercuts in a row which i have never witnessed a boxer pull off,his punches were devastating,malaipet was doing his best to survive and im glad it was stopped as he would have carried on all night just to please the crowd but it wasnt nice to watch.
lamsongkran-i think he broke the frenchmans ribs in the 2nd and decided to let it go the distance,the commentators give him stick,but he was pure class and a gent to his opponent in my opinion.
clifton appeared to win by split in my eyes as he landed very heavy shots in boxing but im no scoring expert, either way clifton can hold his head high as a gent and a representative for jamaica.
fight of the night was the aussie v ditch clash a heavyweight brawl with awesome fitness from both-full power start to end.
baxter humby-what else can you say but inspirational to the extreme.
patrice was huge,and everytime he shook hands with me i dissapeared ;-)
rick-pure gent,unlucky with a fowl blow,but took it well and didnt moan once.
germaine is one of the most respectful,nicest people i have met which is not what i was expecting,julie gave her a good fight but i have no complaints with the result,her boxing is devastating,but julie kept with her and was never looking in trouble and wasnt hurt,it was frustrating that the clinch sometimes was broken up too quickly but i am not an expert on scoring so cant comment,as for the fanning-gutting as other people were fanned after julies fight but in jamaica i was too relaxed to argue-irie irie-no problem mon.
im sure these two will fight again and im pleased that julie loved the elbow fighting more than b class rules and landed some crackers as i have never taught them before.as for her tactics-long teeps,switch left so easier to dodge the right hand straight punch and also power kick to body with left kick,dont box,close in with fake teep/long knee strong clinch and elbow on the break was the gameplan that i set for her,but germaine didnt commit and push forward as much as usual as she guessed our tactics,so it was difficult to stick with the plan.thanks to everyone for their support,even though julie was gutted when germaine said that someone had contacted her from england and told her to do everyone a favour and spark julie out???anyway it didnt happen and i am proud of julie for managing to go the distance and enjoy it .nath