u/Fists-McGee

I've been at my MMA gym since before Covid and absolutely love it there. I have had multiple kickboxing fights and did decent ( 2-2 ) and do pretty well in grappling tournaments too. Last year I was prepping for my first MMA fight when I tore my Achilles. As you can imagine it was a huge uphill battle to get back to a place where I could train again, but I finally recovered enough to be back to training [almost] everything.

I wanted to take a fight this summer to ease me back into competition and get to prepping for MMA again but I'm still not cleared to wrestle so I cannot take an MMA fight. Also kickboxing fights are surprisingly hard to find in my area. 2 of the four fights I've had were at an organization that's now defunct. Making it even harder. So that just leaves boxing. People constantly tell me I have good hands so I figured an ammy boxing match would be super easy to prep for.

Good Lord was I wrong. My boxing compared to actual boxers is a fucking joke. It's like I've never boxed before a day in my life. I can hold my own with our MMA ammy champs in MMA sparring, do fine in Kickboxing sparring, and even do OK ( as in can survive a round ) against one of our MMA pros, but all the boxing ammys of my size beat the tar out of me.

Now it's got me wondering was this a good idea. Like I genuinely enjoy the fact that it has shown me what the next stage is, and how much better I can get, but I'm wondering will actually investing all this time to get good enough at boxing to win one or two amateurs actually translate to making me a better MMA fighter when I'm fully cleared to do everything again.

Is taking a boxing match still a good idea, or would it make more since to not compete in anything until I can do MMA?

Ever since his little monologue at the end of season 4 where he essentially doubles down on his misogyny and raping Annie in Season 1, right before he attempted to kill her and Butcher - I've been hoping he gets offed in almost every scene. It reminds me a lot of how back when Harry Potter was at its most popular, polls suggested people hated Umbridge more than they even hated Voldemort. I believe the explanation was that you will [hopefully] never encounter someone as evil as a Lord Voldemort, but everyone has met or worked with an Umbridge.

I kind of feel the same way about The Deep. Homelander is obviously the worst character, the quintessential super villain, and the character I'm looking forward to seeing die the most simply out of curiosity as to how The Boys will pull it off. But I've met so many young men, in both college and my professional life who were just The Deep without fish fucking powers and would be near identical to him should they ever stumble upon a way to have his degree of power and influence, that it just makes me hate him the most.