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Engineers, [ Music, ], hey y’all, hey so 7 30 ish on a Wednesday night.
So you know what it is.
The Natalie sugar brown show where me Natalie sugar Brown, a former uh active pugilist, meaning you know I used to fight um, professional women’s boxer.
This is my platform here to talk to y’all out there about the life of a baddie of a woman boxer, and you know what that means nowadays, as opposed to back in the time back in the day when uh sugar had laced them up and and was, Was guffing in there too? So um, hey, yo, hey sorry about last weekend yeah! If from my thought for those of y’all who are true um, I miss I missed the date and I’m sorry, I hate being stood up myself, but uh sugar had some things going on in in in the sugar world and that I had to tend to um And – and I I couldn’t I couldn’t get to my guys here on talking fight fast enough – to give you guys my Misfits to update on uh what’s going on in the sugar world.
So I’m here, though, I’m here today, Wednesday, I’m not sure how long the show gon na be.
I know my my babies out there y’all Misfits y’all could be fickle so when sugar don’t show up, it’d take y’all a while to come on back, but I’m here and those who are new thanks for coming thanks for chiming in with me – and I hope I Get to have a conversation with some of y’all.
Don’T be shy, um tonight about what what I’m going to talk about tonight, right, uh and chime in you know chime in ain’t.
Nobody scared, I’m not afraid! You know answer.
Ask me questions because the women’s boxing is a world.
It’S a field that is quite new, even though we’ve been true, it’s quite new to the uh average fight, uh go or or fight fan uh.
You guys know these.
These young bras that are behaving badly now right, but we’ve been behaving badly for a very long time and so um there’s Shenanigans and there’s bull, Jive and there’s you know: there’s there’s a lot of um garnish, unnecessary garnish that uh sugar brings to light here on The on the sugar show – and I do it with love um.
You know a lot of people out here are real sense of sensitive sensitive about the truth and the thing about it is sugar.
Don’T sugar coat nothing because it wasn’t sugar coated for me, I just made it sweet right, so I don’t sugar.
My loyalty is always to the truth right so for my fellow ladies who have behaved badly and who are behaving badly trust.
When I see the real I’m I’m going, I’m going.
I I’m going to praise you guys for doing for being real out here, but when I see that fake that [ __ ] that foul that paper that [ __ ] the okie doke I’m about to blow the whistle on that garbage right.
Because, at the end of the day I want we want, I want the fans now to know what’s going on and and and so when you guys out here, know, what’s going on the people um and how hard we work and what it takes to get into The spotlight and and to to be a woman doing this boxing thing pro boxing thing uh.
Then we can get a little value into our industry, which has been stifled for years right.
Women’S boxing, we we’ve been doing it for years, and some of us made out good and some of us uh we just kind of scraped on by, but at the end of the day we like to bye, bye and we behave badly, and I believe that there That this value behind that special kind of value on the market that we should be um compensated four, okay, so let’s talk to top tonight, so tonight’s episode is who feels it knows it, and the reason why I am chatting about this is because I had a Conversation with a near and dear relative relative, who um Shine the Light on the fact that a lot of people, a lot of people, don’t understand what it feels like actually being in a fight.
And so when, when you guys out here, expect or or see certain things it’s like, oh, he could have did this or she could have did that or I would have did this, not knowing what the hell it feel like under those lights under the pressure under The noise with the with you know, with everything going on you know, would you would you make all of these wonderful right decisions? Are you prepared? Are you made of that fabric? You know, and I think because of that it also that that thought process of the average Joe and Jane actually affects our market value as Fighters, especially women Fighters.
Right because, as glamorous as some of us may look and as pretty as some of us may seem that [ __ ] is really ugly in there and it and it hurts right and it’s frustrating and it’s just a toxic place to be.
And now once you’re.
In it, you have to find a way to control it in such a way that you become Victorious okay.
Now, there’s no rules in having a conversation with sugar.
Okay at, like I said, ask me, ask me, because I don’t expect all of you guys to know the factual information I mean it’s out here, but I mean sometimes the facts that are out here in Google, land ain’t, the real lived facts and understanding and and And – and I’m here to to add some perspective to those uh that those pockets of content that you you all may find um, I I’ve learned that a lot of people who chime in actually speak to some of my fellow women, pugilists one-on-one right so um.
I I just I like to translate what a lot of the things we say.
I like to translate it because I think if, if there’s real, some real understanding about what’s going on, then we become more interesting right, not on a superficial level.
But you know the the deeper the more intimate you guys are in getting to know us and getting to understand uh what women women’s pugilism is um, the the longer the relationship will have right.
So I’m big on that stuff.
I love the.
I love relationships good ones, especially now um.
I got my lovely assistant here tonight with me.
Um baby sugar always got a slide show and so we’re going to start off with the first image, all right so now um.
When I talk about what it feels like to be in a fight, a lot of what may come to mind is actually standing in the ring face to face with your opposition, but that fight starts way way way before that moment.
That particular moment that fight starts when you decide to put that person or or when the understanding of who’s on the radar.
Okay, now back in the day right when, when sugar was out there and a lot of others which uh women pugilist was out there, we didn’t really have we didn’t have the internet as such, and there wasn’t as much information available to us as there is now Right so if you heard a broad’s name, you were hearing her name authentically like if that name kept ringing and coming across and coming to you um, that meant she was fighting and how they spoke to you amen um.
What was said determined what kind of fight you were gon na or you would possibly have with this broad.
Now we have the internet, we got YouTube, we got every Platinum.
We got these platforms that now, at the touch of a button, you got footage in front of you on on any broad, that’s out here, which I mean my whole thing is it’s kind of yeah to me.
It’S like it’s a cheat code right.
I I think it makes it easier for fighters in general nowadays to have that at you know at their fingertips, because even male Fighters like back in the day of days right, there was only the name, and there was the network, the name and the network, meaning You put The Feelers out there and they’ll.
Tell you the kind of fighter they are you could they could tell you if they’re strong, they wouldn’t like at the same time I mean it’s a double-edged sword right.
You guys um it’s a double-edged sword, meaning that I believe the information that we got back in you know back in the day was more detailed because you were able to get the perspective of the general population in the industry about a said fighter right.
So you would hear if you were hearing a lot of the same things about this fighter, unpaid now right people ain’t getting paid, it’s like they just it’s in the industry.
This person has been putting that work, putting in rounds and they’re seeing it.
So you know they’re telling you if they tell you, oh they strong.
They got a good right hand.
They got the hook watch out for the hook.
You know, or you know they got sweet feet.
Things like that.
It gave you a really good um perspective, of how profound the skill set and performance uh was of of the this fighter in that time.
Right, because these are people who were boxing people, okay, they they knew the craft and they were around and and they would they were seeing everyone.
So if certain things stuck out, it really meant that okay, this person they’re pretty good this.
The the skill or this thing that they do they’re they’re pretty they’re, pretty good at it right because it’s just uh it becomes a recurring theme right, um, so um.
You know, I’m not sure what the consensus out there was about sugar, but I know um.
I know that I Suga had that a good right hand had she.
Sugar had power.
Sugar has power, but the the the the the Canon was.
It is my right hand right, um and I’m an orthodox fighter.
So my my right hand rests behind and that’s my my if they’re, counting, if you’re, counting, because some people count the punches one, two three, my in my jab is my left.
The number two is my right hand.
Okay, so that being said, you know, I I put some [ __ ], together on your ass and and and this the cherry on top.
Just just put it that way, right, um and when I landed it would you know it had bad intentions.
So hence why you know the nickname out.
There also is too bad or missed too bad, because um the punches.
My punches had bad intentions anyway, going back to what it feels like.
So in that time you know I’m and I’m speaking from my lived experience um, whether amateur or Pro, the responsibility of all fighters is to know what the environment is, meaning.
What the environment will like what it’s a jungle out here and you got ta know the the types of animals in your atmosphere right in in your ecosystem right, so I was a welterweight light welterweight.
I was a light welterweight as Amina.
I was a 147 welterweight that fought on the lower end as an amateur, and then I was a junior uh welterweight or a super lightweight uh as a pro because I always walked around at the lowest of my weight uh class.
The thing is, I was very strong or I am very strong for my size, so that was something that um I was able to manage so moving on um.
When do you know the environment or the playing field? You know who’s a waiter, a weight class or two up from you that you may need to keep an eye on, and you know, who’s a weight class or two down from you that you may need to keep an eye on and they’re.
Looking at you too right, um and sugar always says this, you know you’re a different fighter um in a different way in at a different weight right.
Sugar wouldn’t be the same fighter if she dipped down five pounds as she was at her actual fight weight.
Same thing, she wouldn’t be the same fighter.
She went up five pounds right so um you, you just kind of know.
You know where you, you know your sweet spot, you, you know where you um, you you’re at your best and you’re going to perform at your best.
The thing about it is now people out here are doing research, especially these matchmakers, especially these uh managers and and these promote these people who do their their the stalking for their fighter and um.
They see how well you do uh in your different weights.
They see you know if they they see how your performance is heavy.
They see how your performance is light.
They see how how your performance is on your on your uh sweet, wait right so um.
That being said, you now when, when you have an understanding of what that environment is you, your responsibility is to be prepared right for anything, especially well.
I I’m always going to refer to back in the times back in uh back in the day.
You know when um, because we didn’t have a database so to speak.
We didn’t have footage uh readily available.
So when we trained we trained for anything that could possibly be coming at us right, I I would be walking to the ring and after round one is when I realized.
Oh [ __, ], she’s, a southpaw or yeah, and my coach would tell me because it should I I go in there and at that time, as you, I guess, as you mature, when, when you’re early, you don’t even see these things.
To be honest right, when you start off early in in the fight in the earlier rounds, you’re just trying to get yourself situated right.
So little the big things look like little things like you when, when they swing and when you know what I’m saying when, when the when the bombs in it are coming at you, you may not realize what what the lead hand is or or what their lead Is right so a lot of the time come back after the first round and surprisingly coach will say: she’s a southpaw cool, that’s why to be honest right, um, not that I’m not prepared for it, but it’s like that.
First round, you know the first two rounds.
It’S wild, it gets wild, it gets freaky in there right everyone’s unnerved right um, and so I have a picture here.
You know to to the left of me, because these two guys gals here on the side and depending on like my my brain gender, might not be the gender that you see to be like not saying that not not going there.
So y’all don’t take me there, but in my mind, so there are people who are are more logical, thinkers and they’re the people who are more emotional thinkers, and it’s it’s really all about what the brain is so from what is understood, especially in the fight world.
Males or men are logical thinkers and women are animal thinkers.
Okay and that’s what that’s what I’m going off of okay and I’ve.
I’Ve experienced it enough to what to to say my perspective that you know there may be into that.
There may be some truth to that right, um, so that brain my brain, I had to change my brain as I as I evolved and, as I grew up, uh from a young from a young lady from a teenager, into a woman into this sport from thinking Emotionally and and controlling that emotional um response and and becoming a more logical thinker with everything that’s going on, so we got the brain and and and then we got the heart right and that’s the same thing, but that heart is a different.
The thing right, the the the heart is the engine that um that the brain presses, so your heart, uh emo, your heart, responds to these emotions and and responds to these these chemicals that your your brain releases right.
So these two here they they got to be in order.
They got to work together, right and, and so that’s where I’m coming from, I mean damn, I’m not telling you oh what it feels like to be in a fight like I’m trying to tell I’m just a teaching moment y’all, I’m here to teach y’all something.
Okay, so um once we understand that, and mostly the person that needs to understand that is uh your coach or your trainer, because uh as sugar, you know, sugar, this ain’t, sugar, skirt, show or Rodeo like I’ve, been trying to teach y’all this whole time right when We go into the temperaments of a fighter right, your coach, your trainer, your people, your corner, they have learned you, they understand your temperament, they know and they accept your strong points and your weak points.
Okay and and and it’s their job now to you, know uh kind of heard everything together or or to put everything together where you are able to perform at your best and also you’re able to perform at your worst.
Okay.
Now, as I’ve said, brain sends out the hormones.
The hormones are the emotions right.
We feel the chemicals that our brain um releases right and our reaction may be to the hormone meaning it hurts I’m gon na cry or that’s emotional or logical that hurts.
Why does it hurt? Where did it come from? What can I do to stop it? You guys get it y’all, get it now lovely assist, bring on the next image.
Ah, so what you guys are looking at what this mug shot is is the main culprit of what it’s all about the foundation of what drives Us in that ring.
Um, the the government name or the you know.
The the fence name is epinephrine AKA, adrenaline, okay, so this is the culprit, all right and so um adrenaline is a hormone released by um, the brain that triggers the fight or flight reaction.
Okay and that reaction is an emotional reaction right, um and so we’re going to get deep into it.
So adrenaline is really released, mainly through the the activation of nerves connected to the adrenal glands, so like this is biology going on okay, and so when the fight starts, this is released.
I said the fight starts so much earlier than um.
That moment, when you’re, actually standing in the ring in front of your opposition, for me the fight started when either I saw the roster of who was in my weight division or when I saw that contract come in.
That’S was my first burst of adrenaline, because now, okay, that’s a challenge right.
Let’S see somebody chimed in already Michael or hi sugar, hey Michael um, thanks for chiming in thanks for coming to see me this Wednesday.
This conversation tonight is um, who feels it knows it meaning like what is the actual feeling of fight of a fight, and I know Mike you’ve been in a couple right because yeah um, sometimes sometimes you, you wind, my my you know my switch.
Sometimes you wound me up the way where we we could Guff at it too right but um.
I wouldn’t be guffing that I I we wouldn’t be.
We wouldn’t really be fighting uh Fair because I I I’d probably try to take advantage of you um yeah.
I said it y’all out here in cyberspace, um, but Mike knows all right.
I think for him anyway, Mike uh we’re looking at um the culprit, the main culprit um in the start of a fight which is a uh epinephrine, AKA adrenaline, okay, now um it activates.
The fight or flight response that response may be logical or emotional, okay, so the brain and heart works together in that response.
Um now there’s there’s.
You know a reaction, regardless of what the mind is doing.
There’S a physical um impulse or there’s a physical thing.
That happens inside of our bodies when this adrenaline is released right so um it it, and it happens like that right.
It’S it’s not a slow thing.
It’S like boom right um within minutes of the of The Happening of the thing right so, like I said within minutes.
When I look at that roster and I see who then signed up right to fight.
I take that every last one of those names as a channel challenge.
Why? Because, as a fighter, I believe I believe that that’s that’s mine, that title is mine.
I’M gon na be the last one.
I’M Gon na Be A Champion right, so they don’t.
They all signed up to fight me.
Excuse me y’all, so you know that’s my thought.
Personality adrenaline gives me a gives me like a rush and at first when I first started, and even with the contract too, when that that contract comes and you read it, and it got your name and it got that other broad’s name and and where y’all gon Na meet what time, what day, what way right? That’S a rush.
That’S a challenge, if anything, that’s a challenge, because now you we got a contracted date.
That means you got ta show up right and what I I signed, my name on that dotted line.
I signed my life on that dotted line, and so will she right so from that day forward we’re doing everything we can to be ready? Okay, so that’s when it starts right, and so in the duration of that time, between the challenge and actually getting into the ring is the fight and a lot of people starts to fight and a lot of people in getting to the ring.
People can’t manage the emotions, the feelings, the stresses obligations of responsibilities that happen as you get closer and closer to that date, or that moment, okay, lovely assistant um, do we have? Can you put on the other picture? Please I mean sippy sip um.
Now I did this um, I I you know one of this diet diagram um, because it it it really outlined uh.
You know I have an opportunity to to like point and and talk about the details of from head down right down down to the uh fingertips of the feeling right because um, a lot of us really don’t know right.
So, let’s start with the brain okay, so that brain sends out this signal the adrenaline right on down to the eyes so the eyes we all of a sudden have tunnel vision, tunnel vision, meaning that this is the priority.
This is what’s important.
There’S nothing else.
That’S happening outside and around that’s most importantly, more than this right and then and you got to be committed to that tunnel vision.
Trust me.
Um.
I’Ve had deaths, I’ve had divorce, I’ve had injury.
I’D have all of these things.
My vision has to be tunnel.
A deviate I got ta keep my eye on the prize, and so that’s what happens with Fighters right.
That’S and that’s a big reason why Fighters go away to camp right.
That’S important fighters to me Fighters! Don’T go away to camp uh like they used to right.
There’S no camps from what I I’m seeing out here now there are no camps and camps were important.
I I got a lot of my experiences and and knowledge and um my name.
You know kind of grew in because you he, after a while the camps that you go to, you start becoming a name where, if you’re, if you’re a good fighter, if you’re disciplined, if you show a certain caliber of performance and and just um demeanor, the type Of fighter you are you get invited to different camps right and you can be invited to the camp just to add a bit of um.
You know you’re going you’re running every day with everybody you’re training every day with everybody, so that fighter has has that motivation? You add to the motivation of the energy of that one main fighter, that the camp is about to get ready right or your work right.
So you you get invited because you’re a good fighter out here and it’s an opportunity for you to get in rounds with of this fighter who’s getting ready to um perform at one of the highest um.
You know at a high level, so it’s like going to University, you know um and you would you like.
I said people wouldn’t people would know you from the camps that you’ve been at and if these certain people, if these type of people know you and your name, is on that caliber, then your value, your street value and your brand now becomes no.
You get a little change on your name right, so um! That’S why that’s important now, when you’re away at cab things happen at home.
Things happen in your life, but Camp is supposed to take you away from all of that.
Okay, um and it works now fighters who don’t go to camp like you most Fighters, don’t have the luxury of going away the camp going away.
The camp means that you have a Handler.
That’S taking care of your business you’re getting paid while you’re in Camp you’re.
Getting your you know, your obligations are being managed or you’re getting compensated for being at camp.
Your family.
You know you you’re, you, you get uh paid, you you have the funds, your family has the you know.
Your family is okay, so you’re able to really focus and and put your all into being at Camp.
Okay.
Now, like I said, the average fighter does not have uh that opportunity and those opportunities now are very few and far in between, because uh as I’ve spoken to um old school guys like uh Tim Witherspoon, who who you know he he has his his platform with The guys uh he’s old school, so you know those camps few and far in between they’re not happening, and so therefore, the knowledge isn’t being uh why certain things are done or the little tricks and and those things are, are slowly disappearing, because people who have no Clue people who just woke up one day and said: oh I’m gon na be a I’m going to be a trainer, and I I can I can do that by reading this book or I watch it’s on YouTube.
So I I know how I know how to be a trainer and a coach right.
I know how to tell somebody what to do in their right now.
You have these stumble bombs that come in, oh especially now I don’t know yes, I’m gon na throw this shade out there, because it’s necessary this broad out here.
That’S doing the pads.
That’S doing the pack, that’s doing the past, who the hell are you? Where have you been what education is? It is there behind you playing back patty cake with random people? I mean this.
This Vision made it to a movie.
You know what I’m saying and you could tell that she don’t know uh a left hook from a fish hook by the way, she’s doing the hand pads right and that’s been a debate.
That’S especially debate is getting stronger and stronger nowadays, because back in the day and and really how it is, is pad work, wasn’t pad work, didn’t explode or didn’t get popular or wasn’t even like wasn’t even um.
It wasn’t something that a fighter um especially thought that they were gon na get until Floyd and and Uncle Roger came out with the 24s and Floyd doing all this stuff on the pads and now you know, people think because they they like they can do hand.
Patty cake stuff, you know that they’re able to because the hand pads look good they’re able to translate it to an actual fight, which is, I think, he I think, Floyd and them boy and Uncle Roger set a lot of people up for um.
You know to get hurt right because hand pads was never supposed to be a thing like that hand.
Pads are, are something it’s like just something to to see how sharp the fighter is sharp, meaning.
What’S the reaction? Okay, what how? How? How are they running their hands to calibrate them in what they’re doing what their rhythm is, what the coordination is with their feet? Things like that right and and it’s to see it was for the trainer to see if there was any hiccups in the flow of the fighter.
Okay, that’s what hand pads are four now like.
I said you got people who now they learn how to play.
Patty cake on you know they playing patty cake with the pads and they got the sweat suit on and they look cool.
You look cool as hell ain’t you.
I went in the gym one time and I seen that this this dude and the rest said ain’t.
You you look cool as hell doing that [ __ ] right! What’S that, for why are you holding a pad like that? So when you hold a pad like that, what’s the reaction when you hold the pad now, where is the fighter to go, and so I start asking questions, and you know this – the stumble bomb started seeing that he didn’t know so he’s in there with tools that He don’t know – and I know right and so when you put them on Front Street like that which you’re supposed to right, because you used to put if you see somebody that that’s like you know someone that’s false advertisement, you in the ring holding patch for somebody You’Re teaching them movements and you’re you’re, showing them things that you don’t even understand and know.
That’S like false advertisement, you’re setting them up to get hurt right.
So when people see that you know they become uh, conscious and and and and they feel like you’re attacking them, but you’re – you know they’re the ones that stepped in the arena anyway, uh Cedric Sports training says what up sugar keep dropping that knowledge thanks, baby uh Cedric Sports training, so that’s seti, um over there up there in um up there up north in the great North, Canada he’s a he’s, a great General uh and and those who are new.
I call a lot.
I call the good uh trainers, good coaches generals right because you train in somebody.
For that I mean that’s legit War right, so uh Cedric Cedric is a.
He he’s a general up there in the up north uh, he’s he’s been he’s been in the in the game.
He’S been um uh mentored by some some some, some good good knowledge in the game and and he’s now spreading his knowledge as a general – and I tell you – I appreciate it so thanks for chiming in and and it’s for me, it’s an honor for for people Like Cedric to to um check in and say what up sugar because um it it lets me know that um, you know, I know what I’m talking about, even though I know what I’m talking about.
But you know when you, when you’re in the cipher or when you spit in your you know you spitting your little flow and one of the you know one of the generals out there was like you got bars.
It feels kind of good um.
So back to what I was saying, you know you you get that tunnel vision.
Nothing else is important right or or the priority is now getting ready.
Now um.
This is the actual time like auditory, uh exclusion, that’s the ear! Okay! So that’s your hearing and awareness right so eyes and um Cedric Sports training says uh.
Everyone watching hit the like button.
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This sugar even share this sugar right, um and chime in too into this conversation like there’s, no right or wrong.
It’S a conversation ain’t.
Nobody here to judge sugar, don’t judge sugar wants to know.
What’S on your mind, because I’ma tell you what’s on mine um, so you know the ear in auditory actually like.
This is a reaction.
So imagine like, like I said, the fight starts for me when I see the roster or when that contract comes in and every little moment there’s moments from then on that triggers that that those spikes of adrenaline right, but I’m I’m I’m on I’m locked in now.
Wear this on this ear, the auditory and the tunnel vision that, where that really um is is maximized, is when you now are closer and closer when you’re around it, it could even be inspiring.
You know where you have to visualize this person or it’s now.
The stress now you’re being trained to get to this stress level and in the training that you’re getting to the stress level.
The training brings the adrenaline right and so in the training.
Now your team, your people, especially your coach, because no one starts off perfect or great.
You start you’re supposed to start off a big pile of you know, mess and what what you do is you grow into a polished and professional uh performance after right? It’S you’re polished and you’re professional in in the end of the at the end of the the training camp and the training period right so um.
You know you’re hearing things, you’re hearing things that you may not that that you may not have been in tune to uh previously, so especially in a fight right, and so I’m gon na fast forward it to like being in the ring, uh or or being at The press conference, or or even you know, being at the gym where certain things like before, where you’d be around certain things, you don’t hear because certainty and then once you hear that those things it’ll trigger you right, so the main trigger the trigger that we all Uh react to in in boxing is ding ding ding ding.
Okay, that Bell is the trigger, like you can hear that Bell right.
You know like till this day like now, I know I know.
I know that Bell.
I know when it’s two minutes.
I know when it’s two minutes 30 seconds.
I know when it’s three minutes like I just know right.
I’Ve been conditioned.
My ears and my body has been conditioned to know and react to that right when you hear that but y’all in the fight game, y’all know what that means right, and you know what to do.
When you hear okay, now, there’s a logical reaction to these things and there’s an emotional reaction, and it depends on where you are in your brain and your heart: okay, um – and we would you know, I’m gon na talk about this.
Talking about you know, it goes uh, so your ear you’ll hear certain things.
You’Ll hear certain voices like the the um, the auditorium or the you know the the venue could is is like people are screaming and you know [ __ ] is going on, but for me The only voice I hear is my coach and my mama.
It’S funny.
It’S so funny that you know there was um.
I was fighting one time and I ain’t gon na lie.
I wouldn’t do it so well and around and my mom came down she.
She came because she never used to.
She never used to like to see Sugar in in the ring fighting and my mom yeah y’all know Sugar’s Jamaican a little bit a lot of bit, and so my mom’s very Jamaican right so round one going too well and she came down from where she was And she put her like she.
She always she had a dress on my mom’s, always just seeing a little cutesy, a cutesy gal, okay, um, more more bark than bite right sugar was a muscle, my mom she’s.
She a Beyonce uh lady, so she came down because she’s done seeing her daughter she somebody getting the best order.
She said Natalie, you know sisters, [, Laughter, ].
I got backed up out that look.
I said Mama boy down here.
She my mom’s, like at the lip of the red at the apron of the Ring, how the hell did she get down there.
That’S another story: right, look everyone hearing, people cheering screaming or whatever right, and then I hear the coach nah Natalie get on your jab.
Get on your Jab right and I get my mind back right, I’m starting to think logically now right so the I mean these are the things right, and so what you hear also causes a reaction right and it could be if you’re prepared for that reaction.
Then boom we on go if you’re not prepared for the reaction.
That is when the coach especially is concerned right because, if you’re reacting to things – and you can’t get a hold of yourself, then plan goes out.
The window strategy goes out, the damn window.
They just on the sidelines, hoping you don’t mess up right, so um that you know you.
You see thing like your eyes.
You’Ll see things I I remember um talking me and my ex-husband, who is a fighter used to talk and he he was like you know.
I could never Focus uh when I, when I was fighting, I was different in the gym like in the gym.
He was amazing, but then you know Under The Lights, things were different from him and I remember him saying I can’t when I’m in an actual fight.
I cannot focus on what’s actually going on in the ring, I’m more outside the ring, and I’m like what does that mean? I didn’t know what that meant and he was like.
I could tell if there, if a napkin dropped off of a table or somebody dropped something I could tell you who dropped it and who picked it up and what they had on.
But I can’t tell you what the hell, if I got hit with something I couldn’t tell you what I got hit with and I was like wow.
That’S the other way around for me.
I don’t see nothing outside, except for the fighter.
That’S in front of me, which was was a hitch for me, because I learned the hard way that you’re not just fighting one person in the ring you’re fighting two, that rep is a [ __ ] too okay and some of a lot of the time that Ref getting slid a little bit, it’s the same thing, it’s especially if you not what they call a side now and they helping that other fighter, and you got ta know and you got ta see what they’re doing and you you have to also you know, operate Where you’re dealing with them, as well as you’re, dealing with the opposition in front of you case in point sorry, yeah, sip, something foreign ever notice or start noticing.
When these nasty refs out here yell break they’ll, hold one fighter and they’ll push another fighter back and they’ll hold that fire push the other fighter back.
But what you guys don’t see is when they do that, and they push that other fighter back they’re pushing you out of your range they’re, pushing you out of the range that you have fought right to get into in order to unload now, they’ve disrupted.
All the [ __ ] that you’ve done work to come together on and you got to start all over again right and on top of that, if the fighter who they’re working for right is smart, then that fighter walks behind the ref.
So now you got to go around and find that mother you got to go around and find them and start all over again right.
A lot of people, don’t notice that a lot of people don’t see that so that’s! What’S going on in there also a ref a lot of ref when they touch you they’re delivering blows too right when they separate you they’ll push you in your chest in your diaphragm, where you’re already your lungs you’re, fast, breathing, you’re, already trying to catch your breath And they push you or they’ll they’ll get in between and elbow you where feel a it’s like a blow, and you have to recover from that and then a break stop or they’ll they’ll like Motion in like they’re gon na stop, and so then you’re looking at Them you’re not getting in your floor, you stop and then they don’t right.
So, like a lot of nasty things um these refs do refs are refs, are um aside from judges, I would say, and Reps and judges are hand in hand.
There’S there’s these slimiest characters in inboxing.
A lot of them are the reason why people have lost their lives right.
So I want you guys to pay attention out here to uh how these refs and how these judges are.
Um are operating right because then you have somebody who’s going through, like I said, the fight and the adrenaline of it all uh takes you away from what is actually happening unless you’ve been trained to understand how to protect yourself all times.
Okay, so your lungs.
You start breathing right so, but when things happen like that, you’d lose track of your breathing.
So you can’t catch your breath and when you can’t catch your breath, you’re losing oxygen right and so you’re, not in control your pace and start you.
So you actually start getting tired all right, so this is what’s happening in a fight right now, those who are prepared and those have gone through camping and have been exposed to these conditions.
You know what to do.
You know what to expect so you’re good on that right, um, the heart accelerates and calms down, accelerates and calm down, based on the pace that your your opponent or your opposition says, and the pace that the referee encourages right.
A lot of people don’t see that.
Why can’t they just or why you don’t know what’s going on in there? This is what’s going on in the actual fight.
Okay and then you got your liver, okay and now a lot of people don’t understand what that liver mean right and the people you say, liver, shot right, because your opponent is also attacking these areas.
I’M attacking your brain right.
I’M I’m trying to I’m trying to shake your your skull, so your brain slams against your skull.
So you can’t think right.
I’M trying to damage your eyes, so you can’t see straight.
Maybe you know one eye will swell, and now you only have you know the vision, your your vision is compromised right, I’m throwing shots to burst your eardrum or to damage your ear and your equilibrium.
You know right, I’m describing what we are.
We are human butchers.
Okay, um your lungs okay and I I I I’m gon na press your lungs and then I’m going to damage areas that deliver that oxygen from your lungs to your body.
So I’m gon na punch you all in your neck.
When I hold right I’m going to squeeze on you right, I’m gon na try to put my arm around your your neck and squeeze it so right, I’m doing it all, but people don’t see that that’s part of the performance um put Unchained in Tony’s reviews.
Hey Tony, I haven’t seen you in a while Tony, where you been at thanks for checking in thanks for chiming in Tony’s review, says: keep up the good work can’t stay, but giving you support thanks.
Baby um and thanks for checking in uh, come back in and come back and watch this, and let me know what you think: okay, Tony good, to see you um yeah.
So you know, then I I’m I’m compromising your breathing.
I’M I’m punching you in your chest.
You know these are the things this is what’s happening, who who heals? It knows it so so you’re going through all of that boom boom at times, and it’s not happening in any particular order.
And then you got somebody, that’s stopping your praise and then you got interactions that are happening, that you have an emotional reaction to right and you’re, trying to you’re trying to put everything in order.
Logically, that’s what’s happening in this fight; okay, um.
So with that liver, right and then people that liver shot.
Yes, I used to love that liver shot right behind the elbow behind that back behind that rib.
Oh, I love that you’ll fold a mofo, real, quick.
You especially a lot of broads a lot of broads.
Don’T throw those shots right because they’re not taught they don’t understand, but sugar been taught by some generals out here.
So I mean I, I touch that liver right and that alone folds you, but the liver converts glycogen to glucose.
So if that liver is being punched up and damaged, it’s gon na more so swell than do what it needs to do or do its job right because glycogen is that is, is energy glycogen going to your muscles is the thing that makes your muscles strong? Okay, it makes your muscles able to um contract and and and and give consistent power and and strength.
Now, if that’s compromise, you start feeling weak right, so this is what’s happening in a fight.
So if this, if you’re doing this to somebody now you just touching your weight, you start singing and ain’t much on their punches anymore right.
So then I could walk through some of this stuff.
Oh that wasn’t that used to hurt not no more right, um! The muscles get tense because there’s no glycogen being uh delivered so where, but they they probably were swinging before they’re, not because now uh.
The reaction, that’s happening is they’re, feeling their power they’re feeling weak their heart’s beaten right.
They can’t catch their breath.
Okay, they’re getting hit that you may have damaged their their Vision, their eyes right.
They may be confused from from getting shot hit in the head right, their ear.
You know you, you may have damaged their equilibrium.
They can’t probably can’t stand straight or they probably can’t you know they’re they’re, feeling they’re feeling the damage as as this is going in the fight right, even and even before you get in the ring.
These things start.
I remember um my heart used to just start racing out of nowhere uh at times when I used to think about the fight coming up right right, so my heart would race and um.
You know after a while, it just became that thing just because that feeling just became normal.
So then I I started thinking like okay, logically, why am I feeling? Why is my heart starting to raise? Oh my heart’s starting to race, because I’m thinking about this specific thing right, and so when that happens now it’s not that it’s gon na stop.
When that happens now my logic kicks in and I’m okay with it.
So I know how to react to that happening.
Right when I’m breathing fast well, I’m not breathing fast anymore, because now I’ve been trained right.
That’S what that’s! What good training is? That’S what knowledgeable coaches do prepare you for when these things happen.
So when these things happen, I right I’m I’m aware of that right when my equilibrium’s off right, I’m aware oh [, __, ], okay, Let Me Ride the Rope.
Let me go to the place in the rain that I know I can bear up.
I I can fight out the corner.
I could fight off the robes right, your equilibrium’s off the worst place for you to be is standing in the center of that ring.
Okay, um your eyes same thing right I may I may fight I.
I may fight closer to one rope because I know nothing’s coming from this section, nothing’s coming from this general area, so I’m all I I I’m still within a zone that I can work with.
I can still be dangerous right.
The worst thing now for you to be, or the worst place for you to be, especially if you have any damage to your eyes, is where they can.
People can have space 360 around you right, so you got to cut off.
You got to cut off that area even for the ref right.
So you know when people talk about.
Oh he’s in the corner, don’t go to the corner.
The corner is home all right, depending on what you’re going through in the fight you got ta know.
What’S going on, you got to know how to work.
This thing, um one of my generals, told me.
You know that that ring that ring looks simple for sides.
Four corners and then the ropes, simple, but that’s one of the most complicated houses that you can walk into right, because you can’t tell how the person in front of you has sliced up the house.
You don’t know what room is what and you can only navigate the fight you and you’re even dangerous too, because you’ve sliced up the the ring your particular way, too.
You know what you do when you go to that corner.
You know what’s going to happen in that corner you you know, you know what this with the space with the real estate of the ring means right.
Who teaches that nowadays, who teaches that? Not many people, not many people, but you can always go to your.
You know generic Fitness spot or you know you can always go to a Boston, gym and, and they have these quirky names for their.
You know for what they’re doing, and you know what I’ve noticed is um.
You know many of them don’t even know what it feels like to be in a fight, but yet they’re selling fight, they’re selling the fight game, they’re selling you uh, they’re selling, you a product that makes you feel like you can go in and fight, which is Essentially, playing with fire anyway, you know that um, the the the the funny I’m going to go to the funny part where or it’s not so funny, but that’s stomach too right, so them body shots, but even before you get there um.
I remember my teammate used to say ah here it goes like after when, when we say say it: we we now go into weigh-ins and once he gets off the scale he goes.
Ah, here it goes and it’s like what bubble guts Bubble, Guppies Bubble Guppies and you can get it like.
You can get it at any time like I’ve had bubble guts when the contract come then like brutal, oh right and you start getting gassy right, because your stomach just started your stomach.
Your brain releases, the adrenaline and your body reacts to it and the organ.
The stomach, the stomach don’t do well with that adrenal that adrenaline release right, and so you get commonly bubble guts.
I I remember I’ve been in, I you know you’re in the you’re, in the dressing, room and you’re warming up and then perm.
Oh sorry, because you got bubble guts like this thing is going like you’re about to go in the rain.
So um, listen it it! It’S it’s not cute.
It’S it’s not, but it is what it is.
It’S the truth right.
So when you get that, though, or or you know, knowing that that’s gon na come, I’m not even gon na lie, like you know, as a fighter, you know what to eat before the fight happens or you know what to eat.
Moving up to that because you know was gon na upset your stomach or you know what to do.
You know how your body’s gon na react um when the adrenaline starts right, so you know some people talk about.
Oh, you know I like to eat a steak before my fight, who eats a damn steak before they fight unless you’re a bleeder right.
You may I mean back in the back in the day like these things.
Are you ate a steak before the fight and it would have to be like the morning of the fight it if you’re gon na fight late at night, because that steak provides the protein for the blood that you’ll possibly lose or it provides the you know protein For the cuts that you may possibly get so I mean that was like a theory back in the 30s 40s 50s right that they would do that, but don’t child! Don’T nobody do that? No more because we understand what what what this means and we ain’t fighting.
15 rounds no more right, so we don’t kind of don’t need that right, but it it.
It benefits us that to know why – and it benefits us to know that okay, this is a real thing that I need to prepare for so yeah, the stomach and one.
Even when you’re in a fight, you feel them bubble.
Guts, like I’ve, seen Fighters I’ve made Fighters poop on themselves right and it’s because there’s a reaction.
There’S a bowel reaction to stress to pain, to what comes with a fight happening right.
Some people will gone, will um [, __ ] up the bed.
You know what I’m saying so you you got ta um.
This is what’s happening.
So when people talk about, oh, I would have did this or oh, he could have.
He could have gone on a little longer or he could have taken him.
He could have stood around you, don’t know.
A lot of people don’t have that fabric to withstand all of these things happening, but you would hear all these people with their life with their solutions to what should have been done or who didn’t do what it’s just funny um same thing with the bladder right.
You I’ve I’ve delivered shots.
I’Ve.
I’Ve made people piss themselves in the ring, because this is a reaction to the stress and if you know what you’re doing right, these generals have taught me to know what makes what happen right so I’ll.
I’M going to tell the secrets that costs money right, but I know what to do to cause that loose bladder reaction right.
I know what to do and it ain’t about hitting nobody below the belt in the bladder right.
There are different things and then, once that person realizes that I’ve been pissed on myself, more adrenaline comes because there’s a rush from that embarrassment.
There’S a rush from the fact that this bodily function happened without me being in charge of it right.
So it’s just it! It’S just you know it’s Terror, layered upon Terror, right and then.
Lastly, we get uh well, the adrenal glands right and that’s over there over on the other side, on the other side, opposite to your um liver.
So these adrenals, these body shot.
When you come around the elbow and you you plant them right, these adrenal glands now they start to swell and they’re not operating the way they should right.
So then, these bodily functions, like I said you you’ll pee on yourself, You’ll poop on yourself, especially your stomach, is starting you’re bubbling your heart’s, accelerating you’re, breathing hard.
You possibly are damaged the rooms, possibly spinning.
Who knows you can’t stand up straight right, but nobody knows.
What’S going because, as Fighters we’re trained to keep going we’re trained to to look the part we’re trained to be resilient, even though the damage is being done? Okay, hands start shaking now some people, yes, the hands, start shaking so yeah your hands are shaking and you’re.
Not and your hands are sweating.
You know shaky hands means I I’m I’m I’m I may.
I may not shoot the shot accurately and I may not bring it back accurately, so I’ll shoot the shot and bring it back low, I’m open to get clipped right.
So all of these, these things are happening, but if you’re trained and you’re trained well right with all of this stuff happening still able to operate, you you’re still able to execute right and that’s the Triumph in it.
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Do I have any other um images, I’m already an hour so list the symptoms? Okay, list, the symptoms that distinguish an adrenaline rush: okay, so [, Music, ] um.
You have high and very Swift rate of heartbeats, like I said, your heart start beating fast right.
Some people – that’s a panic, that’s in it.
So the emotional reaction to that is panic right, but there’s some people where you know you want your heart now, I’m writing I’m locked in my heart’s being fast and they always say it’s the people that are the calmest.
When start when the [ __ ] is hype, is the most dangerous and I’m explaining to you why? Because they’re not reacting emotionally like anyone else, they’re calm, they’re cool deadly.
So, yes, you need to be careful for those who are calm right when when when, when, when stuff is getting wild, because yeah they’re locked in okay, then there’s this wedding, like I said in the underarms and you get it ain’t, it ain’t the sweat like.
Oh, I’m cool sweat, it’s the stank, sweat! I’M telling y’all like it’s that sweat that releases, the body odor and you’re, like oh shoot, I’ve had it I’ll share it I’ll tell you right! I’Ve been there.
I’Ve been through it where you know that that hard sweat that coming you’re like okay, that’s what but you feel it come under your arm and you’re like oh, it should.
Okay, that’s that nervous, sweat people sweat from their hands.
You could probably see the little glistening.
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