{"id":4355,"date":"2014-02-23T17:52:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T23:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=4355"},"modified":"2014-02-23T17:52:29","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T23:52:29","slug":"my-ufc-170-experience-mike-pyle-won-d-and-amazing-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2014\/02\/23\/my-ufc-170-experience-mike-pyle-won-d-and-amazing-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"my UFC 170 experience.  Mike Pyle won!! :D and amazing fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the coaches at my gym Syndicate MMA, Mike Pyle,  beat down TJ Waldburger to win by TKO.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.bleacherreport.net\/img\/images\/photos\/002\/769\/941\/fc324760740882aca3951c1bdaaaf725_crop_north.jpg?w=630&#038;h=420&#038;q=75\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wanted him to win so badly&#8230; It&#8217;s been a while since I wanted another man to smash the living daylights out of another man with my entire heart and soul&#8230;.and vocab cords.  I was screaming sooo loudly&#8230;. <\/p>\n<p>Okay&#8230;.back up.  Woke up Saturday morning feeling tired, decided to skip grappling and do kickboxing sparring that morning.  I warmed up, sparred a while, and accomplished two out of four training goals.<\/p>\n<p>For the first round, Chaz, one of the Muay Thai coaches, invited me to spar. I said, &#8220;Oh sorry, I&#8217;m going with Fanny first.&#8221;  &#8220;Well, F*CK YOU!&#8221;  he yelled at me and turned away to find someone else.<\/p>\n<p>hahahah  Just kidding, of course.  That was hilarious.  We sparred later for the first time. \ud83d\ude00 Fun.  And I got good feedback in front of my other coach, who TEASED me to cover up how SECRETLY PLEASED he was. \ud83d\ude1b \ud83d\ude1b \ud83d\ude1b  I know, don&#8217;t worry. I get it. <\/p>\n<p>Then I chose to spar with this karate guy who&#8217;s not a member of our gym.  Very nice guy. I like him. But he does moves that I wonder, are they really meant for sparring, or just kata and then street fighting?   Because they&#8217;re kind of &#8230;damaging.  Like spinning back crescent kicks to the head with the heel, lots of spinning kicks and stuff&#8230;.  And he bends over and shows his back, so in MMA, it wouldn&#8217;t work because we can tackle him, but we were doing kickboxing on Saturday.  I went with him because I wanted practice blocking  kicks. <\/p>\n<p>I resisted soccerball kicking him in the face when he was bent over in half.  That would be kind of mean, right? I think he was baiting me with like an upward donkey kick or something.  I tried a spinning back kick and he countered with a spinning crescent kick downwards onto my leg.  It checked it perfectly!  It was so cool!<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.except his heel hit me really really REALLY hard in the thigh, in the T-band area&#8230;.and my leg died and went to heaven.  I could put zero weight on my leg.  It hurt so bad.  That was not cool at all. I hopped around on one leg for the last like&#8230;30 seconds to finish the round, and then had to drag myself to the side.<\/p>\n<p>So I had to sit out for the rest of practice.<\/p>\n<p>SO PISSED OFF!! ~_~; GRRRRR  Fanny was like, &#8220;oh we gotta rub it out or it&#8217;ll knot up,&#8221; and tried to help me.  I think I actually screamed. Thanks for trying, love.<\/p>\n<p>One other teammate offered to beat him up for me, but I can&#8217;t knowingly condone that. The key word is knowingly. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I went home after that, then went to UFC 170!! \ud83d\ude00 I could hobble around after icing it for a while. The event was great! This is my first time to be a spectator at a UFC since I fought in it. I got stopped a ton of times by fans to take pictures.  It&#8217;s really my honor to meet people, and I&#8217;m so glad people are made happy by meeting me! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>I had to wear my disguise.  And you know what, I had Heather  lead me to the bathroom while I wore my disguise, and nobody said a word!  Then I took it off, and a lady in line shouted, &#8220;OH, ROXANNE!!!&#8221; and wanted a picture.  HAH I KNEW IT!<\/p>\n<p>It worked!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/roxy-heather-disguise.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/roxy-heather-disguise.jpg\" alt=\"roxy heather disguise\" width=\"413\" height=\"317\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4358\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBut don&#8217;t tell anyone about this disguise. It&#8217;s only between you and me, okay?<\/p>\n<p>:} I got to hang out with my friend Perry, and we had dinner together afterwards!   In the arena,  I sat with my friend Heather!  And Phil Baroni was like three seats down, but I didn&#8217;t recognize him because he has full beard, rather than his usual styled one.<\/p>\n<p>Dude, during Pyle&#8217;s fight, Phil and some other guy started getting into it! I heard &#8220;You wanna go? You wanna go?&#8221; and some people stood up.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to be like, &#8220;Hey, sit down and shut the F*UCK up, one of my coaches is fighting!&#8221; but you know. That would have been a very.very.bad. idea.<\/p>\n<p>So I got up and moved in between the first and second round.  I found myself next to two gentlemen from England who were very nice, but they kept talking to me. I just wanted everyone to shut UP and let me watch the fight&#8230;I was so nervous and freaking out, and I don&#8217;t wanna talk about my life history or how sound Pyle&#8217;s strategy is or not. ;_;    So it looked like things settle down, so I went back to my regular seat in time to see Mike winnnnn YAY!<\/p>\n<p>At one point, I was walking down the hall and I saw this fan with HUGE FAKE HANDS. I turned around.<br \/>\nRoxy: HEY!  Awesome fake gloves! haha<br \/>\nman: OH, it&#8217;s ROXY!<br \/>\nRoxy: Can I take a picture with you?<br \/>\nMan: Can I take a picture with YOU?<br \/>\nRoxy: will you face off with me?<br \/>\nMan: Will you sign my GLOVE?!?!?!<br \/>\nRoxy: YES!<br \/>\nMan: YES!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/fan-with-huge-gloves.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/fan-with-huge-gloves.jpg\" alt=\"fan with huge gloves\" width=\"490\" height=\"653\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the coaches at my gym Syndicate MMA, Mike Pyle, beat down TJ Waldburger to win by TKO. I wanted him to win so badly&#8230; It&#8217;s been a while since I wanted another man to smash the living daylights out of another man with my entire heart and soul&#8230;.and vocab cords. I was screaming&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusing","category-fight","category-friends","category-fun","category-6","category-7","category-9","category-8","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}