John Wayne Parr To Retire After 2011
He’s had an amazing career as a Nak Muay and is Australia’s biggest most well known Muay Thai fighter, but it seems that it’s all coming to an end. This is straight from JWP’s Facebook page 3 hours ago.
Never thought I would be writing this one, but 2011 will be my last year fighting. I turn 35 in May so time isn’t on my side. Want to give it everything I can this year and finish on a high. Don’t want to have 5 fights too many and start drooling when I speak. One more year before I have to think about what I will do after I retire, hope it’s not washing dishes.
Born in Australia, training in martial arts since the age of 9. My first trip to Thailand was back in 2007. Since then i have made numerous visits back to the "land of smiles" to feed my addiction of Muay Thai. During the month of November in 2010 i had to decide between working a 9 to 5 job back home for the rest of my life, or sell all my worldly possessions and move to Thailand to live and train for the next few years. Thankfully i chose the latter.
I now spend my time training Muay Thai, meeting new and interesting circles of people, sipping coconuts under palm trees on the beach and measuring the cost of everything on how much Pad Thai i could buy with that money.
