When fighting, Ibo seems anything but unfocused. For half a year Vedran Kos accompanies his exhausting preparations for the first amateur boxing match and talks about the emotional but also pragmatic hurdles of the sport. Today the time has come, the day of the fight that will decide everything. It’s easy to say the most important match is always the next one – but for Ibo at this instant it is really true that nothing else counts. Depending on the outcome, he feels the threat of megalomania or complete defeat. Ibo dreams of the moment of triumphant glory that will make all the suffering worthwhile.
Ibo is 26. What bothers him most is simple: its time. Dropped out of school, unsettled lifestyle. Now it's time to change before it's all too late.
When fighting, Ibo seems anything but unfocused. For half a year Vedran Kos accompanies his exhausting preparations for the first amateur boxing match and talks about the emotional but also pragmatic hurdles of the sport.
Today the time has come, the day of the fight that will decide everything. It’s easy to say the most important match is always the next one – but for Ibo at this instant it is really true that nothing else counts. Depending on the outcome, he feels the threat of megalomania or complete defeat. Ibo dreams of the moment of triumphant glory that will make all the suffering worthwhile.