Tuesday,
March 24, 2009
It never gets old for me to thank
everyone that visits and reads my blog. Thank you all for the continued support.
I also want every person who sent me messages and posted comments and support on
my Facebook page to know I drew inspiration from all of it. I truly was down in
the dumps about my misadventures with the executive director of the Pennsylvania
State Boxing Commission, who needlessly prevented me from fighting two weeks
later at the Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills, and the support has helped me
rise above this all. (Scan down this page and read the blog that follows
this one for the entire story).
I was just browsing over the “About
Me” part of my personal profile on Facebook and saw a statement I made -- a
statement that I try to live by:
Love life and everything life has to give -- the good and the
bad. Everything happens for a reason, but don't be fooled: You still have to go
get it. Nothing will just come to you.
I never forget how lucky and blessed
I am for getting to live the life of a professional boxer and fulfilling a
lifelong dream. I may not be rich and famous and live in some mansion in
Hollywood Hills. In fact, I live in Osborn Missouri (pop. 400), away from all
the hoopla of the city. I bought a car that was environmentally friendly instead
of buying another gas guzzling SUV. I think we should all recycle more and
realize that nobody is perfect. I could go on for days here.
The point I am trying to make is this: Yes, I was
dealt a very shitty hand in the past week, but am I going to let that derail my
quest to be the best possible professional boxer I know I can be? Absolutely
not. Does that mean I am going to give up on what I feel is right, and the fact
that something needs to be done to Greg Sirb? Hell, no.
If you don’t stand for something, you will fall
for anything. I believe in my heart that I was denied a dream opportunity that I
had earned because of a decision by an egotistical and incompetent person.
I know people make mistakes -- I make them
everyday -- but when I gave Mr. Sirb the opportunity to realize his decision was
not correct decision, he still felt the need to enforce it to the max.
My goal is to ensure that no other professional
boxer has to go through what I went through. Mr. Sirb has never stepped into the
ring as a professional boxer and could never imagine what boxers go through. But
I can tell you I am here for the boxers.
My only agenda is to see that professional boxing
is cleared of all the Greg Sirbs around the world and that every fighter be
treated equally and with professionalism.
If you have a story such as mine, please share it
with us at
contact@ringsideboxingshow.com.
We'll post it in a new room, "The Hall of Horrors," the purpose of which is to
provide a place for boxing people to tell their stories of the corruption,
arrogance and lack of fairness that is all to common in our sport.
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