Yusuf Dikeç, the guy who went viral at the Paris Olympics for being chill with one hand in his pocket, just won gold at the 2025 European Championships like it’s nothing 🤯🇹🇷
From this point on, I don’t want to see any more Tom and Jerry-type boxing matches where one fighter is running around the ring and the other is chasing him. We can longer support these kind of fights with Riyadh Season and The Ring. We want to support fighters who leave it all in the ring and fight with heart and pride!🥊🥊🥊
Canelo just solidified my point. MMA is way more exciting than boxing. The supposed king of boxing went 12 rounds with a mannequin from JCPenney and still put everyone to sleep. At this point, boxing ain’t a sport anymore, it’s a sleep aid with ring lights.
When I burn out on streaming / playing video games, I burn out hard.
I spend months isolated in a room, playing games, grinding Twitch, and allocating any additional time I have to keeping a foundational level of health / fitness / structure alive only to come out of it in a proverbial haze..
Realizing that when the distraction of chasing frivolous materialistic gain dissipates I’ve neglected much of my / the general human condition.
Maybe this is just a result of not pushing myself as hard as I once did in areas that I know I should.. playing it “safe”.. growing comfortable.. stagnating.. a compounding effect of small daily decisions that don’t drive me towards the best possible version of myself.
Stuck on a never ending hedonic treadmill where effort amongst the circles I’m exposed to is met with “just enough” reward to keep me shuffling along at a numbing pace.
Maybe some of you are in similar situations and to you I say~
It’s time to get back in the mental & physical lab. Start asking yourself those uncomfortable questions you’ve been putting off till X Y or Z is finished or better. Start excavating the deepest parts of your soul. The parts you’ve kept dormant and suppressed for far too long.
You owe it to yourself to reach your potential.