Rhys Moran can’t contain his joy when talking about his return.
In fact, no one in the history of work has been happier to return to work than the Waterford man.
The Celtic Warrior Gym lightweight is almost shadow boxing and sports a huge smile as he talks about his long-awaited return on McEleney Promotions’ ‘Breaking Ground’ card scheduled for Galway this Saturday night.
“I’m overjoyed,” he tells Irish-boxing.com before we can ask a question.
“I’m very happy to be back in the gym. I’m flying it. This is my 2.0,” she continues.
“It’s the best I’ve felt in years. I have so much excitement in my body that I can barely keep calm. “I’m not really talking about the fight, it’s more the excitement of returning, everything that surrounds it and being here in the gym.”
That joy is a huge transformation from the disappointment and frustration Moran felt during his nearly three-year absence from the sport.
It may even be that those contagious levels of emotion are rooted in the fact that you had to endure a really difficult time.
The Déise light heavyweight endured what was far from a perfect storm in early 2021, suffering a loss to Michal Loniewski, who broke several duck eggs, including one from an 11-0 Canadian, in Belgium and was denied the chance. to return to the winning path due to the pandemic. His training was also affected and, as is typical, it never rains but it pours, he also had to deal with serious personal problems.
“I had an unexpected loss, then I was training and then I didn’t train. I also found it difficult to stay motivated. I was just very deflated. I also had some personal problems.
“I never thought about retiring, but sometimes I felt like it was. That can happen when you are in a dark place. To be honest, for anyone who is struggling and hears this: make your circle small, stand up, take the first step and love yourself. After that, everything will fall into place, I promise,” he adds, sharing advice.
It is advice that has been very useful to him and he believes that he has come back better than ever.
“I faced the difficulties, free time allowed me. I have matured as a person and I have had great people who have come into my life. I have a good family around me and they pushed me to get back to what I love to do and that is boxing. All the negativity is gone. “I’m looking forward to showing everyone what this version has to offer.”
First and foremost, ‘The Kalifornia Kid’ wants to have fun, and considering how much he has loved training and training, that won’t be a problem, but he has title ambitions.
The plan is to be eligible for the title and then scan the landscape to see who is competing at light heavyweight, super middleweight is off limits unless they “take a limb off.”
“Getting a win on March 16, moving forward to get on that national scene and where I want to be.”
