Behind the Brotherhood: Inside the Ring with Grant Williams

SEATTLE-  When Grant Williams first stepped into the ring he knew nothing about boxing at all. Now he knows 10 times more. The first few months were rough with so much to learn and so little experience. But somewhere between learning and getting beat he found something. He learned to love the sport.  

Grant was in 7^th grade he was thinking about what sports he could end up playing and went through the line of sports. He says that “he was a skinny kid and I wasn’t that big.” He thought to himself and was like “in boxing you can be any size to do it” and so he was in 7^th grade and decided that was his sport. He loves the fact there is just him and the other guy in the ring. He doesn’t have to depend on other people to help out the team like in team sports. If he is boxing either good or bad on a certain day he is the one to be happy about or blame.   

When he first started sparring, it was coming at him like a bullet train, he had to learn fast and it wasn’t going to always fun. He said that sometimes “you just have to get hit and beat up” and that is a lot of what happens when you first start boxing. Everything that happened in the ring for him was a lesson in itself. Even when it was a tough day in the ring he would walk out of there “feeling like he actually got better”. This gave him that feeling of wanting to comeback that most sports have.  

Grant stuck with the sport even through the hard times. He started to have moments where he was learning a lot and paying that forward. He talked about how “you can hit someone and you wait for the delayed reaction.” He started to have stuff happen like that more often and it felt good and he felt accomplished.  

He now has been boxing for 2-3 years so far and will continue to. He has learned a lot and had to persevere through a lot. He has a fight coming up next may that is close to becoming locked.