These OCVarsity Pickapalooza Deathmatches are turning into my personal Vietnam. I’ve taken  three consecutive brutal beatdowns in a row, but last week’s was the worse because it came against my arch nemesis Damian Calhoun of OCVarsity’s Calhoun Countdown.

The defeat cost me my Diego “The Nightmare”Sanchez UFC action figure. It was a terrible loss to The Los Art and Memorabilia Collection. The defeat sent me to a dark place. Beaten and battered, I was on the verge of retiring from OCVarsity Pickapalooza Deathmatches.

But then I got a call from Apollo Creed, an old OCVarsity Pickapalooza Deathmatch opponent from my past. We had battled to a draw and then I beat him in the rematch. It was an epic OCVarsity Pickapalooza Deathmatch series.

Apollo Creed: “Now, when we fought, you had that eye of the tiger, man; the edge! And now you gotta get it back, and the way to get it back is to go back to the beginning. You know what I mean”

Yeah, we had to take it back to the beginning, but I still wasn’t completely on board and it showed during one of our early OCVarsity Pickapalooza Deathmatch sparring sessions.

Apollo Creed: “He’s hooking. He’s hooking. He’s hooking! Damn, Los, Come on! What’s the matter with you?”

Me: “Tomorrow. Let’s do it tomorrow.”

Apollo Creed: “(Screaming) There is no tomorrow! THERE IS NO TOMORROW! THERE IS NO TOMORROW!”

Apollo Creed was right. “THERE IS NO TOMORROW!!!” Flash to my OCVarsity Pickapalloza Deathmatch training montage.

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