Am I wrong for unfriending?
Am I wrong for ending a 19 year friendship? Be real with me.
I was an amateur MMA fighter and he was an amateur boxing fighter with wrestling experience in highschool.
We both had dreams of becoming a pro fighter (me MMA and him boxing) and we would push each other and spar as well but only boxing sparring.
We both had fights coming up and he never wanted to help me spar in MMA rules but only wanted to spar boxing because he would tell me that he's a boxer only but what about me? I explained that I wouldn't hit him too hard and just focus on light sparring. I just needed him to go for takedown while mixing it up with his boxing for just 3 rounds, 2 minutes each round. He would decline still because he's a boxer-not an MMA fighter But I would help him spar boxing and I wasn't just a boxer, but I helped him because I think that's what a training partner does.
I was a striker/kickboxer/muayThai background but I wanted to learn how to defend myself from takedowns and some submission moves and put it all together in a sparring match but he never wanted to regardless of his wrestling background the ironic thing is that he wanted to be an MMA fighter before transitioning into a boxer as he took MMA classes.
So obviously I lost my matches.
He won his matches since he got some good sparring sessions from me.
Not only that, but he's flaked when I actually had a video production team that wanted to film me training and I wanted to give my buddy some exposure for his boxing. I was looking out for him too. But he ignored my calls and I made sure to notify him about this ahead of time. He agreed. So here's some context: I was getting interviews by promoters/platforms while loosing my fights and he wasn't when he was doing the winning. Not sure if it was jealousy but it obviously seems like it. He has mentioned before that he was jealous that I was a quick learner because he was teaching me some boxing.
Then he really crossed the line when I tried to recommend him to work at my job since he needed work so I did what any good friend would do and recommended him. He said he was down. I didn't get a thank you but I didn't care at the time because I was just helping a friend out. I said good things about him tand made him look good so my boss said to tell him to call him. What did he do? You guessed it. He flaked and never called him. He made me look back and showed me his true colors.
Am I wrong for blocking him and unfriending him or am I overreacting? I'd really appreciate your feedback.