George Kambosos Jr: Every Fight Is Different

“Once more into the fray, into the last good fight I’ll ever know. Live and die on this day, live and die on this day.”

Here we are again in a situation where the world is doubting Sparta’s bravest son, George Kambosos, to pull off the upset. All I’m saying is this: every fight is different, and a different fight equals a different outcome.

Earlier this year, George Kambosos Jr. revived the sport of boxing in Australia, and most importantly, he pumped Melbourne’s economy solely by himself. That takes a lot out of you. And by no means am I forming any excuses for the former champion, but at the end of it all, just like you and me, he’s human.

It’s impossible to fathom the pressure of becoming a champion – the phone never stops ringing, people bombarding you in public, and distractions left and right. In a few months, you go from worrying about the bills to become a multi-millionaire. Suddenly, you see your team and private circle grow unintentionally. And in a blink of an eye, the belts are gone.

The psychological battle a combat athlete goes through on a daily basis tends to break the sturdiest men of all. However, in a year, one man rocketed to the highest heights and then fell to the darkest valleys of despair. He came out alive with a smile on his face, gratitude in his heart, and vengeance in his mind. George Kambosos Jr. is that man.

“Then we shall fight under the shade.”
-Spartans

The blood, or the background of a fighter, doesn’t always relate to the combatant’s written destiny, but when you mention the word “Spartan,” one thing comes to mind; an image of a fearless, ferocious warrior that’s put on this earth to be standing still by the time the smoke clears in battle. The packed stadium looked astonishing last June. However, it didn’t look like a fitting place for a Spartan. A colosseum is a proper fighting ground for a true fighting Spartan, and the rematch goes down in a modern-day colosseum under the shade of Rod Laver Arena.

Since starting his boxing journey at 11-years-old to get in shape and overcome bullying, George Kambosos has always had the sense that his calling in life was more prominent than anyone would ever fathom.

While you have the “built” stars in the sport, who are guided in every step to the sport’s summit. On the other side of the pond, there’s something to be said about a combatant paving his own way to the pinnacle by going through thousands of gym battles, small local shows to prove himself, and, most importantly, conquering the place where all demons of self-doubt reside, inside the mind. George Kambosos is the embodiment of it all.

When picking teams at school, George was always picked last, but on November 28th, he became first, not in a school race or a boxing tournament but in the entire planet. But it’s the comeback chapter now – and George Kambosos Jr. is back from the darkest valleys of despair to exercise his demons by becoming a Two-time Lightweight Champion. He’s born to shock his foes; it’s the only way a Spartan knows.