Is it worth it?

Is it worth all the hard work?

Strong mindset will take you as far as you wanna go in life.

27th of March, 2000 and 10.

I'll never forget it.

So you should think about that's birthday.

I can't lose here.

It's gonna be there.

Everyone's gonna be there and need to put on a clinic because at that time, everyone was saying they were the best fight in the UK But then obviously he'd stopped me.

So I'm like a member member.

Liamine that good?

Maybe he's just being found out here.

So then I was thinking I've just been found out.

I'll shut These was being found out.

So I was like fighting against myself, my own demons.

I had to stay mentally strong to show that our more than that.

And then in the first fight, I sat down after round.

One of my leg was in agony and by the end of around five of him, still kicking out fight in the rematch, I couldn't feel a thing still, but my mindset was saw mentally strong.

Then I think he could have hit me with an iron bar in that fighting, I wonder.

Felt it After the fight, the ambulance had to come and take me to hospital, passed out in the after party and I got to hospital staying overnight and a really bad concussion on That was how hard he hit me in around four.

But I was in such a mental focus that he didn't even have any effect of after the fight.

If you want to be the best day, you've got to be obsessed by it.

You got toe, give your life, you got to live it.

You got to breathe it, willing to go that extra mile just where certain people are willing to go.

Anyone can come in a gym and keep the pods and spar and do this, but when they're tired, it depends.

Are they willing to do it around?

They're gonna get back on the pods afterwards when you can't breathe anymore.

You know, you've been hurt to the body in the middle of around 10.

A sparring.

A fresh appointment comes in and they're gonna get out.

Are you going to stay in and you're gonna keep going?

So obsession is massively important.

And if you're not just fighting just in any walk of life where you want to be successful.

I just used toe get in there.

So I used to love it, usedto walk around school and playground, just daydreaming about when the next fight, where I'll be sat in class, not paying any attention whatsoever.

All I could think about was getting out, going to the gym, and eventually I started on the dinner hour running from my school up to the gym, doing some quick pads of Richard and then running back to school.

And that was like my my dinner and stuff like that.

So I was obsessed by the spot, and I was obsessed with fire in when I walk through this door, I did not want to just fight to, like, turn up to fights and make up the numbers or anything.

I wanted to be a champion, and that was that.

Andi.

I'd always stayed behind afterwards, and after the class, I got in the bag upstairs on my own.

I used to use my Did you come with those recorder and stuff and just fill myself to make sure I thought my stance were okay and stuff like that, And that's like, I think, sort of mentality that takes you from being just a fighter to a champion.

I had my first fight at 14 e.

No one ever questions because I looked quite old for my age and eso I got away of it then.

But I ended up with, like, fighting men.

So I was like 14 fighting men.

I think when I was 15 or 4 2028 year old I think you are.

I knocked him our did.

Never, ever used to cross my mind that I will fight in a fully grown man all the way, which, like this is the fight, and I loved it.

It was after my 29th, my 30 year fight.

I went 29 fights on being my 30 year fight.

I fought, I jump in and he was like elite level top top level.

I never fought anyone that good.

I was 18 and in round two.

I'm not this guy down the left hook, and it's far he's just saying is every other fighter.

I'll finish him off now and that's that.

I went in to finish him off.

He survived around And then he got opening around 34 and five.

He destroyed me, and I mean, he just wiped the floor.

May I remember When I dropped him in the left hook, his eyes rolled into his head, and then he came back up and he started smiling at me and he didn't have a gun shield in and had blood all over his teeth for this guy's crazy and he just absolutely destroyed me.

But me and I remember after the fight, I was thinking right, If I want to fight these guys, I need to be able to know how they fight as well as our I fight.

And if I could mix both the styles together.

I just said I was seeing a girl for the time as well.

I've been seeing her for three years.

I just went on when I'm sorry it's over.

I must live in Thailand on that.

She was devastated, and I said, a moment to moment off.

I went on the 15th of December before Christmas, so everyone mad at me for ruining Christmas.

But I said this.

That said, I can't have this in my head over Christmas because me I'm just gonna go.

I need to, like, go out there and make sure that and see if I can live at that level.

I don't wanna be like the nearly guy I said.

I want to get that level on.

I wanna be the one that get in the ring knowing I'm gonna win at that level.

I don't wanna be fighting these guys thinking, um, I good enough or not I want to get in there.

And so I just went out to Thailand and led to fight their way.

And I probably about 15 fight center of its special two years.

So I was fighting, Really?

Like you learned had to my best best experience in your life and some it worst.

Oh, yeah.

Getting out of your comfort zone is massively important again.

That comes down to the same thing as obsession.

I think you can't just be comfortable in what you're doing.

You need to be out of your comfort zone like training.

You need to be in six or to eight weeks out of your comfort zone.

Otherwise, when you fight is gonna be healthier.

I said before, I don't wanna be like a big fish in a small pond.

I wanted to go over there and I went to a gym called Ji Jim and it had a lot of Thai champions and at the time and top level guys, so I wanted toe live like they did.

I wanted to train all they did.

And for the first, like, 34 weeks until I got used to it.

It will help.

I was living on a mattress on the floor.

They have been fighting every 34 weeks, But yeah, it was He got tougher at some points because I was out there fighting for money as well.

I was only 18 when I went.

I'm not too much money saved up from bodies, A bit banged up.

I'm injured.

DeMaria to fight.

So that's what I did.

I just used to fight a zoo, often as I could as regular as I could.

There's a big gambling culture in Thailand, so if I had a big fight out there, they're probably gonna get some money, gambled on it.

They're gonna be back in.

So if they fought, I want in top ship was possible, then they wouldn't met with me in the ship.

I mean, like they love me will put six running and I'll be the last one out the gym at 6 p.m. At night and then make sure that our on point, like I said, I was there for money and I said, Right, I'm gonna bet on myself.

So if I didn't win, I had no money.

So I had to win.

E had to win.

But one time I bet on myself and the whole gym bet on me and I lost, and I'd bet all my rent money on myself and everything, and I lost the fight.

And then three days later, I was banged up badly and he said, Look, you ain't got no money we're gonna do is I'm gonna fight again.

So three days later, I got flowing down and pull, kept one of the islands and had to fight again for me rent money.

I won that fight by knockout in round free, and I pay my rent for two months then, but you have to fight three days after having a really hard fight.

I lost one point and it to go down there enough to do it again three days later was not nice.

Mhm.

My fear.

Is that the time war thinking I wasn't as good as I thought.

So that's why I wanted to go and put myself right out to face my fears, had to go to Thailand and train with these guys and fight them in Thailand mix.

I thought maybe I'm not as good as I think.

E thought was only one way to find out.

Go over there and then I just have to fight them every time after training them every day.

By doing that, that brought me up to the next level.

These guys over in Thailand, they've all been doing it since six years old.

It's second nature to them, so I'm trying to catch him up.

So if I've got that means staying late when everyone else is eating dinner, that's what we're willing to.

Dio went out there and I faced my fears, but look where he's got me now.

It was like the end goal of all that was always more important than any fear that I ever felt e.

You can sit around and wait for stuff to happen.

We can get out there and make things happen, and that is massively important in any walk of life.

It don't matter who you are or what you do.

You've got to get after it.

You've got to chase it.

You've got to make it up in yourself because no, it's gonna get gifted to you.

You're gonna have to work for it.

And those people who are working and those people who are you grinding?

And they are going the extra hour doing the extra mile?

They're the ones who are gonna be at the top loses, always have an excuse.

Everyone feels pain.

There's no, like personal.

There was a Terminator.

Everyone does.

You just have to deal with the pain.

That's what makes it different.

Strong mindset will take your asses faras.

You wanna go in life a strong mindset and willing to go that extra mile and obsession.

That's a good one that comes with success.

Being obsessed with whatever you're doing will bring you success.

Everyone wants success.

You have to do the hard work.

Some people try and find a shortcut.

We should never wanna try and find a shock.

Hard work should always be like the the main thing and you should enjoy how hard you've gotta workers.

Well, to get there because it just makes it that much sweeter.

In the end, I don't believe your mind, your strongest weapon and your body will your mind will give up before your body along ever does.

You just need to tell yourself it worked like David Goggins and people that look what they do with their their body and it's their mind that's making do it.

But it all comes down to Is the juice worth the squeeze?

And is it worth putting everything else back in?

Um, are you gonna quit and let that be like that?

Obviously, as I got older and my friends were going out and stuff, I've had to miss a lot of things like parties and nights out and stuff like that.

But I wouldn't change it for the world.

You know, you could go out on the piss anytime you put life for the life of lead in the experiences I've had and stuff like that, I would not change a thing.

I have sacrificed a lot and I probably missed out on a lot, but I've gained a lot more.

Is it worth.

It is the end goal worth all the hard work that you're putting through?

Is it worth dragging yourself out of bed when your body is in pain?

Is it worth getting in their inspiring with some guy who was probably a lot better than you?

But you're trying to better yourself.

Is it worth around five when you're exhausted and there's 30 seconds left in the fights?

Even is it worth pushing yourself that little bit extra?

Is it worth doing bringing an extra mile?

Is it worth getting 16 morning doing Hill sprints?

Is it worth it?

And the answer will always be for me.

Yes, Thanks for watching guys.

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