The following is a guest post by Jesse Irizarry. “Ease up on the kid,” the trainer yelled. The fighter backed up to take a break from wailing at my head. There he stood glaring at me, a good thirty pounds heavier than me with almost twenty years’ experience in the ring. The head trainer at the boxing gym I belonged to was having me spar against a much more experienced boxer so I could learn from him. Between the first and second round though, I heard him say to the other fighters watching that I actually caught his jab and [...]
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