In 2002 I fought for the WKN World Tittle in #poland. I arrived in #gdansk a couple of days before the event, "Poland (Belarus) Vs The World" (note: a young Andrei Kulebin is also fighting). At the wiegh in I'm informed that my opponent has been changed (that old chestnut) and I'll be fighting at 55kg not 57kg ...I make wieght at 55.5kg they accept.
Fight day and my trainer arrives from Australia. We get shuttled to the venue and like any other fight night - wrapped up, rubbed down, I enter the ring, Wairu Kru/Ram Muay, I fight. True to the Belarus style, it was a furious pace from the get go, at 2m 30s I land a step up knee on my opponent and he can't get up from it. I'm the only one on the International team that won.
We spent the following day looking around #gdynia and #sopot, then dinner with the locals that toured us. We catch our 10pm train back to #warsaw for our flights at 6am. Sleep. During the trip I felt the train stop a few times for disembarking/boarding passengers. I keep waking up and returning to sleep, mostly during the time we were stopped for a while. Next minute, I've woken up to see the sun has risen and the train is now moving at full pace!!! We had slept through our stop and missed our flights!? The conductor comes around and kicks us off the train for not having a correct ticket (obviously). He yells something at us in Polish ...and the train pulls away. We have no idea where we are. We ask some locals how to get back to Warsaw, but no luck with help as nobody can/wants to speak English. Fortunately some high schoolers came by and helped us out, we chat for a while and they get in some English practice (ironically from 2 Asians ).
Back in Warsaw we scrambled to get flights out, me especially as I had missed all my connecting flights for a detour week holiday in Indonesia. Fun times.
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