John Wayne Parr - The Gunslinger

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Brian Rose

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🗓️ 17 July 2016

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

John Wayne Parr, also known as JWP, is an Australian kickboxer and boxer, fighting out of Boonchu Gym in Gold Coast, Queensland. He is a former 10-time World Champion and was the runner up on The Contender Asia.

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00:00 Trailer.
02:01 Brian’s thoughts on the episode.
04:59 Brian’s Introduction.
05:50 Winning 125th fight at 40.
06:29 Brief retirement was time needed to reconnect with his ‘why’.
09:17 “Silly”, “fun” “love”, words not usually equated with MMA.
13:00 Movement training views.
16:29 What drives him to keep fighting?
22:19 The route to Thailand and Thai Boxing aged 19.
30:26 History of Thai Boxing and why it’s highly regarded as a national sport.
32:49 How John Wayne became the “gunslinger”.
35:55 Living and learning in Thailand, with advice to visiting Westerners.
44:52 A tough time follows.
48:25 Recognition and success arrives.
57:04 Return to Australia and making a successful life there.
1:00:08 The Contender Asia.
1:05:53 Fighting with emotion.
1:09:03 Nate Diaz and Conor McGregor fight.
1:14:32 UFC 200 and Mark Hunt.
1:18:56 Thoughts on Brock Lesnar.
1:21:55 Ronda Rousey fight with Holly Holm in Sydney, Australia.
1:27:07 Coping strategy after a lost fight.
1:28:42 Why is John not a UFC fighter?
1:32:16 How does John justify enjoying something so violent?
1:41:37 John’s belief in the spirit world and the influence of Buddhism.
1:49:42 Success Secrets.
1:5018 Who John considers is successful.
2:02:29 About Joe Rogan.
2:06:51 Brian’s summing up.
2:08:59 Call to the 20 year old John Wayne Parr.
2:09:40 Best advice ever received.
2:11:14 Call to the 20 year old who wants to fight and be like him.

Notes:

John Wayne Parr on Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Parr

John Wayne Parr on Twitter

https://twitter.com/johnwayneparr?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

John Wayne Parr on Facebook

https://en-gb.facebook.com/John-Wayne-Parr-30612449572/

John Wayne Parr on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/johnwayneparr/?hl=en

John Wayne Parr Documentary

http://muaythaipros.com/watch-john-wayne-parr-blessed-with-venom-documentary/

Full Show Notes on LondonRealAcademy.com

Transcript

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0:00.0	Cool, shall we do this? Let's do it.
0:02.0	All right, here we go.
0:07.0	The Bruce Lee scene, I'm not afraid of someone that has 100,000 kicks.
0:11.0	I'm afraid of the man that has one kick that practices a hundred
0:13.7	thousand times. That's me. If you can't train harder than you train yesterday, go home.
0:27.0	The same time I started the movie Kickboxer with Van Bam came out. It was enough to inspire me to want to get to Thailand. You're going to Thailand, you to get to Thailand.
0:33.0	You're going to Thailand, you're going to learn more Thai.
0:36.0	You're not going holiday.
0:38.0	You're going to the help.
0:40.0	I'm sleeping on a wooden floor. There was no couches, there was no luxuries, it was just
0:47.2	you were there to eat, sleep and train. Seeing how hard I was working in fighting and winning and they took me and as one of their own.
0:56.0	Yeah, I just became one of them.
0:58.0	No matter how hurt or how much you're winning, this't change even when you get cut so
1:04.5	emotional it's how many stitches have you had 317 it's like a badge of honor
1:08.5	G'd I mate because giving up is worse and then losing because then you got to live with yourself and then you got the
1:14.7	question marks the rest of your career. So, I'm going to do. So, Let's face it. John Wayne Par is a legend and when I first started training
2:08.0	Wightai in London in the year 2003 I started seeing this white boy in the ring with all sorts of
2:15.7	Thai fighters at the top of their game and I finally started asking who is that guy
2:20.2	who is that guy who is that guy and he was really the very first Westerner that was embraced by the
2:25.7	ties and was taught their tricks. Their intellectual property, if you will, they took him in as
2:31.3	one of their own, and he spoke spoke Thai he lived like the ties he ate like the ties he became Thai and they respected him as one of their own
2:39.6	It's the first time this really happened in history and you can see it in his style and he really has the heart of a champion.
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