"I'm taking this time, not to go bang the broad"

Jimmy Jacobs: "In the past four weeks, I've revved on through every city I've been in, the malls in Michigan, the gas stations in Pittsburgh, and the airports in Indianapolis. People that know me, they all come up to me, and they all say the exact same thing. They say, "Man bro, I was in Detroit and I saw that cage match between you and BJ Whitmer. Bro, that was crazy! That was insane! That was brutal! It was sick! How must have that felt?"

How did it feel? [schüttelt den Kopf] I got half my tooth knocked out. I tore my ACL, my meniscus in my left knee. How do you think it felt? Why don't you go through that and tell me how it felt. That match for the rest of my life, will leave scars on my body. For the rest of my existence on this planet, there will be scars on my physical being that will remind me of that one night. Oh it was sick, it was brutal. That one night. And it was sick, it was brutal. It changed me for the rest of my life. For the rest of my life, I will have scars from that match. It changed me forever.

But I think more importantly, it emotionally changed me forever. I think emotionally it changed me for the better. You see after that match, Lacey came up to me. I kind of knew it was coming. I could feel the signs. I mean, I've been doing everything she asked for a year, over a year. She came up to me and as a reward, as an offering, she offered herself to me for one night, one night in heaven, one night of ecstasy, one night of just me, just Lacey, just our bodies together.

And any other man, any other guy in that locker room would have jumped at that opportunity. But when the night came. I wanted to do it. I'm not a jack off. I really wanted to do it. I didn't. So despite what all the Neanderthals in the locker room think. Lacey and I didn't engage in sexual intercourse. I didn't "bang the broad", as everyone was trying to give me high-fives for. No, as much as I really, really wanted to, I knew it was just one night, one night of lust, one night of lust together and the next day, things would have gone back to normal. I couldn't do that. I've worked too hard for just one night. I don't want just one night.

See all the guys in the locker room with their frat mentality. They're damned apes, they're primates. They're like, "Hey you did a good job. You banged that broad, dude!" See, it's not like that. I worked a year. I knocked on death's door for a year. I bled buckets for a year. I wasn't about to take one night. See...

[Jacobs zeigt eine Pillendose und schüttelt sie]

See this. You hear that? That's not my latest addiction. It's not anything like that. This [Jimmy öffnet die Dose und nimmt daraus das Teilstück seines ausgeschlagenen Zahns], that's half my tooth that got knocked out by BJ Whitmer. Half of my real tooth that will never be in my mouth for the rest of my life. This [Jimmy zeigt auf seinen Zahnersatz], that's porcelain. That'll be there for the rest of my life. That's, that's what I'm working for. Forever has been what I've been working for.

[Jacobs zieht sich die Hose aus und zeigt auf sein verletztes Knie]

Hey, you want to look at something. Look at this.

[Zieht sich die Kniebandage aus und zeigt eine Operationsnarbe]

You want to take a look at forever, this is what my knee's gonna look like forever. The torn ACL, a torn meniscus, scopes through here, here, and here, stitches, scars, bruising, inflammation, that's what I'm dealing with. I didn't deal with this to have one night. See, all the guys think it's awesome. All the boys in the back think it's great. They think I gave it to Lacey. It's not about a one night stand. It's not about screwing the girl. It's not about putting a notch on my bedpost.

You think it's cool? I've got news for you. Even dogs bang. Cats bang. Every animal on this planet bangs. They all have sex. That's nothing. That's meaningless. It takes a man, it takes a human... a human like me, with balls bigger than all of you Neanderthals in the locker room, to love. So I'll be damned if the first time with me and Lacey will be about screwing! I will be damned! The first time with me and Lacey will be about consumating our love, and I want that woman with everything I have... with everything I have... with everything I have. I feel as time goes, she's this far away from loving me too.

So I'm taking this time, not to go bang the broad. I'm using this chance to romance the woman I love, the woman that I believe that will love me too. I'm doing something not one of those apes in the locker room can ever do. Lacey and I will be together, not because of lust, but because of love."