29/03/2008 Milan
Palaiseo
3rd MMA match
Adversary Alex Evans
An evening really important. The first test with a fighter and level of experience, Alex Evans. I knew I would not be easy but I would have given the soul and I never assigned.
At almost 5 kg weight was giving to Alex, I paid a pledge. The mental condition was not the best, was about to get my little Gaia, Pamela was at home with the baby bump and in truth even with my head. But it was too important for me to be there, I had to be there, there was already a victory. Great satisfaction to be on the poster next to Minonzio and Jenkins, I would have never believed it. The weeks preceding the match saw me engaged in the preparation on the distance, a broken nose from a good middle finger and dislocated by Fabiano Fabio good "preacher" Santinato both MMA Fighter. We arrive at the team's training headquarters Palaiseo the great Fabio Tumazzo. Dino has done great way since the days of GTN 1, begins the evening presentation of the fighter in the ring I know I get my opponent. It looks like a nice guy serious and determined, a real sport, entertainment and just as I discovered, much substance. Switch the evening and it's up to me. I'm strangely nervous, a bit tense and in truth not at all concentrated. I do not feel as usual, and I am sure will not be resolved with in minutes. At my corner Cico, Caesar and David, "preacher" does camerman. E 'gong, low kick and Alex brings me to the ground. I feel her G & P is strong and powerful control. I hammered his sides. And strong but I feel nothing. Evans hits me in the heat several times a column, I bite, I get scared and call the referee. Standing continue but I'm feeling down, I see a hole and shot a front kick is a type of cannon shot to the chin of evans just a moment of stall and dodge my left, double leg take down and the audience ecstatic. My petrol what little was low. Control and I find the time to place both knees in the face of Alex who returns to the body. Here, the triangle, I did not, but he was leaving, I find the time to place two percussion Evans's face between my legs. End of the first round, I do not know whether to rejoice, a step away from finalizing. Two minutes pass quickly.
We share a central right and I'm going to land but resist, P & G still seeking his arm, but to no avail, to face 24 shots in just seconds. The referee stops Tazio Basil. E 'defeat. They tried, but I never gave up.
Arrival in the locker room, I feel the full brunt of the disappointment of my team mates, I'm sad I could do much more, but something was missing. Honor of Alex Strong but not unbeatable, I call a rematch with Dino, I know where I went wrong, it will not happen again. I see the match one, two, three, many times, I see what I could do. I turn off the Mac all of the time wasted to the gym, better go.
