The gym I joined (see earlier Gymbox post) planned this boxing night at a club, and I went with Alex! I will sporadically add pictures to make this post more interesting.
The Ring. Literally built in the middle of this nightclub just for this event
There were DJ's and techno music, neon lights and a huge boxing ring, sounds a lot like Gymbox itself! The point of the event is for people who box at the different branches of Gymbox (there are 4) to have organized fights and stuff. So the idea is that you go and support your branch of Gymbox. Our is Holborn. We had the most boxers overall... and I think the best quality too!
They had a little announcer guy in a tuxedo that introduced the boxers and announced the winners!
There were 15 fights total, each one between two boxers lasts for 6 minutes, 3 rounds of 2 minutes each. then a winner is called at the end. For a lot of the fights, it was the boxers' first fights, so some of them were pretty good, and some were sloppy. But it was cool to watch and kind of learn about the sport.
That is Ryan, my personal trainer!
He was the one that told me and Alex about the fight and how it was his first one and he was really excited. So we went to support and cheer really loudly for him! When it was finally his turn... his fight was #12, we cheered and clapped really loud, and it worked! He was awesome, he beat the other guy so bad, he barely let him get any punches or kicks in during any of the rounds!
Here is his victory shot!
It was a fun night, a cool experience and funny enough (and probably not that surprising) Alex and I were one of the 10 girls there, there were like 300 guys. Sooo we were a bit outnumbered. But we didn't mind :)
