well said man. The thing is, people make themselves look good, or build themselves up by putting others down. So this guy due to his lack of never fighting and lies about it, needed to keep the tough guy image up by putting me down, as well as many other people, and others he sent to fight that lost. I wasnt competing with anyone, but I was the "best" in the gym at the time, so my teammates were competing with me and wanting to knock me off that top position. I didnt realize they were trying to KO me when we were sparring and I was taking it a bit easy. One of my old teammates from that gym left and went on to become one of the top fighters in the world, wont say what sport as it may be too obvious. anyways he distanced himself from that gym as well. I grew up without a dad, and looked at this guy like a dad, something ppl made fun of me for and he took advantage of. Years later we reconnected to patch things up, within 2 sessions of hanging out he began to treat me like shit again so i left. His new assistant coach at the time talked to me about he was sick of his shit, left and opened his own gym. the old dickhead coach didnt want anything to do with me anymore after we reconnected until i started fighting, then wants to be my best friend.
It wasnt until i started fighting and surrounding myself with fighters and realized most fighters are very friendly and encouraging and not putting eachother down, its a whole different world once i quit hanging around the fakes. I feel I can spot fakes quickly now, and theres alot of them. Without the internet and stuff of today you just had to take peoples word for how many fights they had in thailand or what not, there was no way to verify it. and continuing on that topic of not being able to verify fights, there was another coach at this gym at the time I was there, this coach was from another country, this coach was pretty good skill level, this coach supposedly had many fights in thailand, I never doubted him at the time (I now understand why he acted like a tough guy all the time now though), this coach eventually left the US and returned to his home country, while in the US this coach never fought, I later find on his webpage for his gym hes running that he had several pro fights in america. I knew him the entire time he was in the US, he never fought anything, I know this is a lie on his webpage, thus I can put 2 and 2 together and figure that if he tells ppl in america he has fights in thailand, and he tells people in his home country he has fights in america, they are all lies, the guys entire career, accomplishments, etc. they are all based on lies. The guy happens to be a very high skill level, a good coach, a well respected and well known individual on world level in his sport, and its all based on lies. I recently checked his website not too long ago, and all the lies about fighting in thailand and america etc. have been removed.
I could go on and on about this these guys and this stuff but theres alot of fakes in the MT game, specifically from the previous generation because they can get away with it as now everything is online and can be verified. Back in the day you just had to take peoples words for it. People do alot of fake stuff too like go to another country on holiday, take some pictures with some fighters after a fight and try and pose as if they cornered them.
