The professional fighter knows how to hit the body. Being hit in the head is debilitating; being hit in the body is painful.
‘Don’t You Cry!’ Training Fighting Women
FightLive Magazine, Sept/Oct 2016
“Don’t you cry; don’t you dare cry,’ I say. “And I’ll always reprimand her if she hits like a girl.”
Very few trainers could get away with giving instructions like that, unless the trainer has been told the exact same thing.
Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Combat Sports and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
FightLive Magazine, June/July 2016
“Life after fighting is more scary to me than dying.”
-‘John’ Wayne Parr.
I sat on the edge of the treatment table at the Albert Park Sports Medicine Center in 2006. I had come to ask Gary Nichols, former physio for the Collingwood Football Club, about a persistent twinge in my knee.
‘John’ Wayne Parr versus Pavlos Kaponis
FightLive Magazine, June/July, 2016
Pavlos Kaponis is ready, hungry and looking for blood.
“John Wayne Parr is famous not only in Australia, but also all around the world and this is respectful,” says Pavlos, starting out with a congenial foot forward.
Legends of the Pit: Toby Smith and Roy Wills
International Kickboxer Magazine, May/June 2016
Roy Wills and Toby Smith have been the best of friends most of their lives. They met at kindergarten and have spent much of their time since hanging around, playing sport and going to school together.