A few weeks ago my son and I saw our favorite heavyweight fighter, Fedor was scheduled to fight. We were sad he was still fighting because he hasn’t won his last couple of matches and after years of dominating the cage. So we stayed home and went to bed early.
Fighters are always the worst athletes to know when to retire. The difference between winning and losing amongst top ranked fighters is slim, but once you lose that edge it is over. You may still be just as fast, strong and train as hard but if you’re reflexes are not as sharp, you are just a regular man. So when a champion has a long reign it is special. And those men are honored and idolized. But they are still just men.
Which is why it is sad to see them fall. We remember the glorious triumphs and suffer the loses as if it was our own. So our dreams and distraction from reality exists once the bell rings. But they are still men so as time catches up to them , they become subject to our reality. The reality we forgot as we climbed in the ring and revisited the spotlight. And that hurts even more because they were living our dreams.
Which is why we have to live and enjoy the now. Every great fight, dinner, conversation ( cigar! ) Is important. We must not put off for later what we enjoy because that opportunity may not be available. Not to live a life of total disregard but to live a full and satisfying life. So every victory and defeat is savored because in order to win or lose you must climb into the cage. You cannot be a spectator in life but an active participant. Until you actually do something you are only a dreamer. So we must run, lift, sing, drink (fuck) and take advantage of every second we live.
And Fedor won 1st round knockout !
Be The Man 