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Blog 17
26 May 2010 3:46PM
I was meant to be fighting in Hong Kong, but a couple things stopped the fight from happening. The promoters wanted me to leave Glasgow on Tuesday afternoon and arrive in Hong Kong via a long stop over in Hong Kong on the Wednesday evening, weigh in on the Thursday afternoon and fight on the Friday before flying home on Saturday. This would have meant me cutting weight from Tuesday while traveling, I'm not really a small bantamweight by any means so this would have effected my performance as well as having to fight while under the effects of jet lag.
So after discussing the issue with my coaches I didn't take the fight. Turns out Artemij Sitenkov took the fight. I watched Numijiri's fights and obviously I know Artemij having watched him and having lost to him, I'm was pretty sure Artemij would beat the Japanese fighter. Artemij was unfortunately beat by the Japanese guy after gassing out and getting submitted, I'm pretty sure the travel, weigh in and Jet lag would have played a part in his performance, this has reinforced my decision not to take the fight under the circumstances.
Just now I'm into the second week of my fight prep for Knuckle up June 26th, I've made a couple alterations to previous 6 week programmes, I'm working on building up the work load and intensity from week one through to four with a slight tapering off on week five and then again on week six.
This should allow me to be at my best peaking on the night of the fight and should also make the last bit of dieting and the weight cut a bit easier. Trying to train hard while living on reduced calories is a nightmare. This also tends to be the period where fighters pick up injuries or illnesses which can lead to them pulling out of fights which is a pet hate of mine.
Another change I've made in this programme is the amount of sparring I'm doing, I've substituted some conditioning sessions with extra sparring, the guys I'm sparring with have all been picked to push me, really go after me and try and work me over. They expect the same back. This is about as close to sport specific conditioning as a fighter can get, also sparring is my favorite form of training so I'm enjoying it.
I'll write up more about training next time, best of luck to my boys Allan 'No' Love in his title fight at Strike and Submit, also representing the ninjas with be unbeaten Featherweight Dean Reilly (English crowd are going to love his exciting style) and Ally left leg McCrae at the weekend.
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