Everyone has a plan.
Until I get hit / 8
How to Win a Street Fight 100% of the Time / 13
I got my own place / 17
Make your bed first / 22
The answer lies in Jung Chan-sung's fight / 26
We're open until Saturday only / 30
Breaking down fear into one day's worth / 35
Mr. A's Complaints After Debuting as a Pro Wrestler in Just One Week / 40
A familiar voice heard in Kumamoto: "Shi-eo" / 45
Rocky's Quotes from Boxing Tournaments / 49
Sensors implanted in the body / 54
A Hobby Called Buoyancy / 59
Lucky Man on New Year's Day / 63
To the Worried Junior - A Happy Life / 67
There's nothing I can do / 72
The Life I Really Want / 76
I received a scholarship from a boxing gym / 82
The Cafe Disappeared / 87
Blaming others is an unnecessary waste of emotion / 91
Six Routines That Shape Me / 94
From a Mere Keyboard to a Slice of Bread / 99
On the Road / 101
My knees were screaming in the trenches / 104
KBS Arena Night / 109
If left untreated, a wound will fester, but if treated, it will become a shield / 113
The speed bump recognized me / 117
Turning off the power was like turning on existence / 120
How to Navigate Life: Learning from the Sun / 123
Brother, please hug me just once / 126
When you take off your helmet, the lecture begins / 130
Cherry Blossom Rain, Blues, and the Jeju Go Brothers / 134
A Prison Called If / 137
Live Like an Outfighter or Break Through Like a Slugger / 141
Newly Discovered Uses for Helmet Ducts / 145
Hospital or Gym? Middle-Aged Sparring / 149
At the site of the disappearance of the left knee cartilage / 152
Hope comes like a joke and remains like the truth / 156
Fish Cutlet and Space Bazooka / 161
The night before departure / 167
Regret, the Awkward Friend / 170
Life is like Tough Solar / 173
2 Days & 1 Night in Mungyeong: Shining Together / 176
The Wailing Wall / 180
Yoon Hyung-bin - A Man Steps Into the Ring / 186
Go Min-soo - Body Shot and Bulgogi Burger / 190
Lee Ho-seon - The Man Who Carries the Fire of the Heart / 195
Hong Hye-geol - The Responsibility of the Sunset, A Thought on a Dan-ah Lee / 201
Jeon Chung-hoon - Commander of the Battlefield, Controller of the City's Fair Trade / 206
Tattoos and Pots / 212
Proof of Non-Existence of Liquidation Assets / 215
Kryptonite, My Venus Television / 219
Hulk Hogan: A Farewell to the Immortal Man / 224
Boxer Kang Ji-sook's Theory - Seize the Day Because It Ends / 228
The Square Ring and Our Seasons / 233
Conclusion: To the Friend Who Came into My Room / 237
September 8, 2025
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Cross-editing between sparring and everyday life

This book is not a chronicle of events, but a compilation of attitudes.
The chapters are generally grouped into three streams.

The art of rebuilding the body: If "How to Win 100% in a Street Fight" asks about the ethics of "survival without cowardice," "Implanting Sensors in the Body" deals with the engineering of self-awareness that reads pain and condition as numbers.
Chapters like “Hospital or Gym: Sparring in Middle Age” and “Where the Cartilage in My Left Knee Disappeared” explore how to decide between “stopping” and “resuming” at the dividing line between injury and recovery.

Based on the routine of life: “Make your bed first,” “Six routines that make me,” and “Turning off the power is turning on existence” discuss micro-strategies of daily management.
The insight that reducing noise, like turning off a light switch, can sharpen one's sense of existence, shows that the fighter's system can be extended to everyday ethics.

The spark passed on by relationships: “Brother, Please Hug Me Just Once,” “Cherry Blossom Rain and Blues, and the Jeju Go Brothers,” and portraits of colleagues, “Yoon Hyung-bin - A Man, Steps Into the Ring on His Own,” “Hong Hye-geol - Responsibility at Sunset,” “Jeon Chung-hoon - Commander of the Battlefield,” and “On Boxer Kang Ji-sook” recall the “method of fighting together.”
He proves with 'Character's Emotional Line' that the spark that spreads from someone else's shoulder can eventually become light for oneself.

The first half collects 'sentences that endure defeat' through scenes such as "The answer lies in Jung Chan-sung's game" and "Rocky's famous quotes," and the middle part captures the corners of life where livelihood, debt, loss, and humor intersect, such as "The cafe has disappeared," "Proof of the non-existence of liquidated assets," and "Kryptonite, My Venus Television."
The second half continues with “Night at KBS Arena,” “Wailing Wall,” and “Square Ring and Our Season,” overlapping metaphors of rings and life, and in the conclusion, calling the reader “a friend in my room.”
The conclusion this book proposes is clear.
The round is over, but the game of life still remains.

From the shadow of the ‘show’ to the light of the ‘narrative’

In Korea, professional wrestling was once a national pastime.
However, amidst changes in industry and tastes, the genre's infrastructure has declined, and it is now considered to be surviving thanks to the dedication of a few enthusiasts and young players.
Under these conditions, what Kim Nam-hoon has accomplished as an active player and record-holder is the accumulation of cultural memory.
He has taken wrestling out of its derisive idiom and reimagined it as a narrative sport where the audience's imagination, the athlete's physical strength, theatrics, and ethics intersect.
This perspective, accumulated through media contributions, interviews, and experiments on local stages (such as outdoor performances at Daegu's Seomun Market and attempts at podcasting), has gradually shifted public perception of wrestling.

Furthermore, Kim Nam-hoon's writing demonstrates the aesthetic of translating body language into sentences.
When insights that can only be reached through encounter with others (“things that you have to experience to know”) are distilled into sentences, it becomes a language of recovery rather than a narrative of defeat.
His sentences avoid flowery rhetoric and build momentum with concrete verbs and nouns, like a training log.
As the title “Breaking Fear into One Day” symbolizes, the attitude of managing great fear by breaking it down into “one-day units” is a meaningful philosophy of life in today’s anxious society.

The social resonance of this book is clear.
As much of Korea's workforce shifts to fragmented, project-based living, we've entered an era where contracts and honesty are no longer everything when it comes to trust.
What is needed here is not a grand success story, but a routine that repeatedly demonstrates 'small victories'.
The routines (exercise, reading, writing, Carrot Market, diet, foreign language) presented in the book are not a diagram of 'self-development' that copies other people's successful habits, but a record of experiments verified through the body.

The hybrid identity of 'wrestler-writer'

Kim Nam-hoon has established a dual identity as a 'wrestler-writer' by meeting readers through several books.
《I Thought I'd Give Up, But It's Only Round 1》showed the feeling of getting back up after falling, 《I'm Just a Boy Because I'm Bravado》offered advice to teenagers and young adults, and 《Youth Manual Workshop》showed life strategies.
In addition, books such as “The Truth or Lies of WWE Pro-Wrestling,” “Fighting People,” and “Twitter, That 140-Character Egalitarianism” contain attempts to cross the intersection of culture, the public, and IT.
This list demonstrates that his writing was not a one-time event, but a sustained project that traversed popular culture, the body, and narrative.

The media's callouts are also consistent.
His determination to keep the ring alive despite the declining infrastructure, his stage presence as a professional villain wrestler, and his experiments with alternative platforms like local stages and podcasts were regular topics of interviews and columns.
These narratives emphasize the 'dignity of endurance' rather than mythical triumph, thereby positioning Kim Nam-hoon as a contemporary witness.

His history of public speaking and broadcasting activities also added to the credibility of 'practical language'.
The speaking skills accumulated through martial arts commentary, public lectures, and broadcast appearances are also reflected in the book's sentences.
It shows how words that have been physically tested become persuasive.

Why You Should Read This Book Now

First, it is a textbook on the attitude toward managing failure.
Today's Korea is in a paradox where it refuses to allow failure, yet says, "Try again."
This book documents the process of shifting from shameful defeat to routine and design for recovery.

Second, it addresses head-on the realities of middle-aged bodies, livelihood, and care.
Injury, pain, treatment, and rehabilitation are not just a hobby or a health discourse, but rather a condition of work and livelihood.
Chapters like “Hospital or Gym, Sparring in Middle Age” make you ponder “how to fight just long enough to endure.”

Third, restore the ethics of relationships.
The portraits of characters in this book are not the 'faces of winners' but the faces of 'those who pass on the spark.'
The sense of sharing each other's body heat and achieving a symbiotic victory is especially urgent in chilled workplaces and communities.

Fourth, I suggest a way to win small victories.
Life is not a KO match, but an accumulation of decisions.
Micro-practices like making your bed, turning off the lights, waking up from your daily fears, and reading your condition through data are a list of "small victories" anyone can implement tomorrow morning.

Closing Remarks - "Our Round Isn't Over Yet"

The tone of the epilogue is warm.
He calls his readers "friends who came into my room" and is grateful for the time they spent looking through his albums together.
Kim Nam-hoon's sentences gaze more intently at the beads of sweat in the corner of the gym than at the brilliance of the championship belt.
So it's more realistic, and so it lasts longer.
"I Thought I'd Give Up, But Round 3" is a "life strategy book" for everyone who is already in the third round or is about to enter it.
The fight is not over.
We still have one round left.