C’mon Alex! Kick him in the head!

Posted by Phobia on May 27th, 2007 filed in Home

My friend Alex does kickboxing. Yeah Oooooo! I do have his phone number ladies so just e-mail me!

Anyway back to the story On Saturday night we went to watch Alex at a fight night. The place is a Chinese restaurant usually but that night all the tables were cleared away & there was a boxing ring in the middle. This was the first time I’d been to any sort of fight & had no idea what to expect. The crowd alone was worth going to watch!! Mostly guys (my Testostero-meter was pinging off the scale!) & quite a few women (some of whom made me feel like a proper lady!).

The night started off with amateur fights first. I don’t think I was expecting it to be like in the movies where the fighting is stylish & choreographed & it was nothing like that. Watching this real-life fight I could see how hard it must be to actually punch the other guy in the head & forget about those flashy spinning kicks! There are 3 rounds of 2 minutes each. That must seem like the longest 6 minutes of their lives! The first couple of fighters got into it & although the taller of the fighters looked like he had the advantage the other guy was clearly the better fighter & Tall Guy walked off with a bloody nose.

After that I kind of got used to the full contact-ness of it all. Having never been in a fight it’s hard to imagine how it feels but some of those kicks & punches sounded like they really hurt!!

Alex’s fight was 3rd in the line-up. He walked out to the song Fucking in the bushes by Oasis. So it began! Ben, Chris & I shouting our heads off & Alex moving in with determination!

Like I said before I’ve never watched a fight before & only had the smallest idea what to look for. Alex definately kicked better than the other guy & landed quite a few good ones but the other punched a little better & got a few of his own in as well.

They got into quite a few clenches which were to Alex’s advantage cos he could then land a few knees in the ribs & by the end of it I thought Alex might have won. Okay so I’m biased!

It turned out though that the actual judges thought it was a draw. Oh well Alex still got a shiney trophy & bragging rights about kicking the crap out of the other guy!

So he swaggered away from that one with slightly sore ribs & his pretty face still intact!

To Alex, please excuse my woeful lack of kickboxing knowledge but please feel free to go ahead & educate me. I look forward to watching you beat the daylights out of more guys in the future!