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@sam_simon_mma He explains what it felt like to capture his first amateur title after spending over 8 years out through multiple injuries, with the first injury one coming weeks an amateur title fight he then went on to win two more titles. Always a pleasure having Sam on Full…

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He explains what it felt like to capture his first amateur title after spending over 8 years out through multiple injuries, with the first injury one coming weeks an amateur title fight he then went on to win two more titles.

Always a pleasure having Sam on 

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And you, like, you had every excuse as well to give up because the first one goes, okay, fair enough, you've come back.
Like I said, even waiting two, three, three and a half years or something to come back.
That's a long time thing.
Right.
So I'm going to be out for this long and come back.
Then it goes again.
And then you have to live.
And then you're just like, most people are not going to like it.
After the first time, I'd be like, I'm out bro.
Yeah.
Whereas like, obviously, and then for the same knee, like that, like that must have been so hard mentally to know, especially when you were so close to the title.
but how did it feel when you actually won your first title when you got the first title you
won it because that was what you were about you were about to fight for title before you got injured
weren't you yeah how did that feel yeah that was that's a good question i like that question
for some reason because no no one has actually asked that question before it's given me a deja vu
you know a deja vu of this is what happened then and this is what's happening now and you know if
I wasn't, if I was weak mentally, I could start learning that because in my mind I was like,
what if I get injured again? What if this knee is not perfect before going to the title fight?
But I, I changed, I, I strengthened my mind to think the opposite, you know, that this is an
opportunity to reclaim what you lost. You cannot, um, you cannot lose this, um, title. You're not
going to lose this fight. I say to myself, this is not going to happen. This is actually meant.
this is you getting back what you lost you know what I mean so I say that to myself and
before going into that fight I already knew I was going to win that fight and it's not like I'm
looking down on my opponent on the estimated because I knew that was meant for me because I worked
it took me such a long time to go through all that for me not to actually get that get that and
it was just I was meant to be strong going I wasn't the most I'm not the most skilled five
person in the world. But I know I'm one of the most mentally strong person, especially when it
comes to things like this. And yeah.