On thursday night, somebody found a copy of Saohin's fight against Paulie Ayala, in Texas. So everybody gathered around the juice bar and watched. It was amusing to watch Saohin, because he had never watched it before. When I spoke to him about that match, he said "Ah Paulie Ayala. He has my phone number." I was confused. He explained "In that fight, Paulie Ayala has my phone number." Then I understood what he was trying to say was Paulie Ayala had his number, which is a phrase that means Saohin was outmatched in that fight. He clearly won the first 4 rounds. The next 8, however, Paulie did in fact have his number. So, this weekend I took a flight to Bangkok to visit my old friend Andrew Konrad, who I used to train with
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