Weekend Updates
As was mentioned before, age doesn’t matter! On Saturday night, Randy Couture dominated the MUCH larger and younger champion Tim “The Maine-iac” Sylvia.
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And in the boxing world, another amazing story took place on Saturday night. Edison Miranda defeated favorite Allan Greene. Miranda’s victory was convincing, but it is his life story that is truly amazing.
For those unfamiliar with this story, please take a moment to read through his bio at the link below.
As quoted within:
“At just one month old, his mother gave him to a family friend to be raised. Edison was both physically and mentally abused by this person. At nine years old, he decided to search for his mother all by himself. He traveled all across Colombia and finally found her; however, she rejected him again. He was now all alone on the tough streets of Colombia at the young age of nine. He spent the rest of his childhood working hard in the plantain and yucca fields of Tumaco and sweeping up for street vendors in the neighboring town of Buenaventura. He ate whatever he could find on the streets in order to survive. By the time Edison was 12, he was already working a grown-man’s job in construction. Just two years later, he worked as a cattle butcher in Barranquilla, where he would soon begin pursuing his dream of becoming a champion boxer.”
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Anyone can find inspiration in Miranda’s story. This is a man who was given nothing in life. He is living proof however that we can all write our own stories. We each have the power to determine our destiny.
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Edison Miranda is also proof that God is real. If you read his story you know what I mean. Miranda would pray by a church everyday to God to help him out. Miranda had a dream that he was in a boxing ring, but he didn’t even know about boxing at the time. Miranda put all his trust in Jesus, and look how he is blessed.
This is what was on Miranda’s robe the night he fought Green.
9That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. 11As the Scripture says, “Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”[e] 12For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
ironfist77… right on man! confess it brother!