About a month ago or so, my trainer, Terri Moss was excited about an amazing bout that was announced. Hollie Holmes vs Melissa Hernandez!! These are the 2 pound-for-pound best female professional boxers in the world. "Patricia, this is what you want to be one day, right?" We have to support the event and at the same time be there to visualize your future...Within the next couple of weeks we made arrangements to get ourselves to that event. From the beginning of last week, I was ridiculously excited about this event as if it were me that was fighting...The Big Fight was scheduled for Friday, December 3rd in Albuquerque, NM at the Isleta Casino at 7pm. Terri, Lisa, Lynn & I arrived on Thursday to attend the press conference & weigh-ins. It was like the big press conferences I have seen on television and it did take my breath away & viewing this in person just took my breath away. I knew that this is what I wanted for my future. Melissa Hernandez was gracious enough to take pictures with many of the people in attendance. However, we were left waiting for Holly Holmes as it appeared she was upset by Melissa and not making weight.
Well, the big Fight day was here and I was waiting with high anticipation. We had awesome seats and were enjoying the undercard bouts waiting for the big showdown and got the news from our seats through someone in the Hernandez camp that the fight was off. Apparently Holly's hands had been wrapped without someone from the Hernandez camp watching and they refused to cut the wraps and re wrap with someone present. I could not believe this was happening! Terri & I were in shock, but at the same time she was telling me that if it were me, she would not let me fight either. A few minutes later and half way through the co-main event, out walks team Hernandez with their flag, their gear, and their entourage. This was horrible!! Why wouldn't Holm's people cut the wrap? To make things much worse, within a few minutes of the main event being off, there was talk of there being a replacement. T was pretty insane since it was still a sanctioned World Title event and the instant replacement was a girl with a record of 3-7.
Needless to say, I was very disappointed....Well, it was unfortunate, but I still love the sport & I am very hopeful that the struggling sport of Women's Boxing will bounce back. My goal is to represent it well & be the best athlete I can be. I had a LONG flight back to Asheville, NC & woke up this morning with lots of energy and went out for a wonderful 7mile trail run with my awesome chihuahua/jack russell mix puppy named Jack. I was featured as a special guest on the Sunday Sizzler addition of the Rock'n Talk'n Boxing Show on Blogtalk Radio! I was featured as a guest along with Randal "KO King" Baily.
Make sure you click below to hear about my b-line to a world championship and my new professional boxing career! To check out the radio show click below at the end of this posting. You can also check out my profile/wall on Facebook & click on the link that features the Sunday Sizzler...Talk'n Boxing is hosted by Johnny "Jsizzle" Shultz and "New York" Dan and airs Sunday mornings. Next week's show hosts Paulie Malignaggi on his upcoming rematch with Juan Diaz.
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