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I started working out yesterday with my friend Rob. He used to win all the Tough Man competitions here and ended up getting sponsored by Hooters and headed to Vegas to train for a couple years under Winky Wright.

I inadvertently ran into him at the pool two weekends ago after not seeing him for a year. He called me up last week and said, "Do you need a workout partner? You said you're single again, so I figured you're like me and need to trim up whenever that happens."

Ha!

And so it began.

Here's an article on Rob from 2003:


http://www.sptimes.com/2003/10/22/Northpinellas/Tough_man_finds_out_h.shtml
Tough man finds out he's not the toughest
A local champ and city resident with 81 victories meets his match in the world Toughman semifinals.
By AARON SHAROCKMAN
Published October 22, 2003

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Midway through the first round of an amateur Toughman boxing match, Rob "Robo" Ochoa's 81-match undefeated streak snapped the moment his left knee popped.

But his dream to become the toughest dude on the planet hasn't ended. Once his knee heals, he'll be back in the ring dodging jabs, throwing uppercuts and beating up any man in his way.

And if that works out, Ochoa will give up his job as a waiter at Clearwater's Island Way Grill and turn pro. There, he'll pummel people for a living.

Crowned Tampa's Toughman heavyweight champion last year, Ochoa, 31, lost his first match during the world Toughman semifinals, a gathering of 64 would-be Butterbeans, in Norman, Okla., last week. Sixteen Toughmen advanced to the world championships in Oklahoma next month, with a chance to win the $50,000 prize and the admiration of pay-per-view fight fans everywhere.

Ochoa, a Clearwater resident, said he could have flattened the competition if a freak softball injury hadn't strained his left knee. Running on the field less than a week before the fight, Ochoa's cleat caught in the turf and sprained his knee.

It hurt so badly that Ochoa thought about dropping out of the competition in Oklahoma.

But he made the trip west and prepared to fight the best he could. In a random draw, Ochoa's first opponent was Jason Freeman, an Ohio native and construction worker who plans on going pro, too.

"He looked 250 and was ripped," Ochoa said. "It was kind of unlucky."

Freeman, 27, has been training at USA Fight Club for more than a year for this fight. He said he weighs 215 pounds.

"I gave him everything I had," Freeman said. "I used the whole kitchen out on him."

In the first of three one-minute rounds, Freeman leaned on Ochoa and his already hurt knee curved sideways.

The crowd at the Oklahoma casino "oohed."

Ochoa looked at the canvas.

"I knew I had lost," he said.

Ochoa kept fighting; he had come too far to give up. But a 6-foot-1, 225-pound man punching on one leg is more nuisance than threat. Ochoa lost in a judge's decision.

"I chalk it up to the injury," Ochoa said. "I saw the competition; I knew I could win."

Freeman, who advanced to the championships, saw it differently.

Here's his jab:

"He said he had a knee injury that limited his side movement," Freeman said. "I don't know. I'm sure the knee probably did bother him. But I was winning the fight."

Now, the knockout blow:

"I came into the tournament with a messed-up left hand, so I was injured, too," Freeman said. "He was a real good fighter; there's no doubt about that. And I beat him; there's no doubt about that, either. Good for me."

It was the first time Ochoa was really punched, he said. In all his fights, he remembers three good wallops before last week's fight. Usually, he said he can dodge most of whatever anyone throws at him, but the injury left him a sitting duck.

"He throws a good punch," Ochoa said. "He gave me a nice little beating."

Ochoa said his knee will take two months to heal. After that, he'll start training full out for next year's Toughman contest.

The competition, which is similar to amateur boxing, started in Michigan in 1979. Critics have called it dangerous because fighters are often untrained and ill-prepared. In June, a 30-year-old woman died in Sarasota because of injuries from a fight.

In the subsequent investigation, Ochoa turned over a videotape to police that showed the fight, creating a national stir.

Last weekend, organizers took extra precautions for the contest. Doctors immediately examined fighters after each fight, and entry physicals were also more stringent, Ochoa said.

Ochoa said he was worried organizers and fighters might be upset with him for turning over the June videotape to police because it put their sport in a bad light. But in Oklahoma, he said he was treated like everyone else.

On the trip, his first at a national level, he learned a lot too.

"I probably got hit 10, 12 times solid, each round," Ochoa said. "Now that I know that I can take a punch, it will probably make me a better fighter.

"I got to see what I'm up against. I can handle it."
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Ultimately, he was 86-1 in Toughman, 16-0 as an amateur boxer, and 10-1 or something as a pro boxer.

Yesterday I had my first session...two hours of brutal weights, machines, and sick cardio. We finished up the workout with some crazy treadmill ballet. I almost puked about half way through. The dude is a beast.

Anyway...we work out Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 9am-11am with tennis and outdoor running on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Having someone else push me is very effective. He told me I can expect to lose 6 pounds per week on this program. We start pliometrics in two weeks and then he's putting me on the speed and heavy bags at his house to increase my stamina. He promised there would be no hitting me.

I just finished Day 2. Hory crap.

We did circuit training on legs, bis and tris.

I got my first words of encouragement today. He told me he's proud that I'm going so hard and I should see nice gains fairly quickly at this pace. Little does he know, I'm pushing hard so he doesn't call me a pussy.

Thanks for being a part of my blog.
 
Good job. It's always nice to have someone else to impress so we don't give up. Unfortunately, I'm over impressing Knyte while working out, so I give up easily.
 
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