She won’t tell you how to stop being a misfit-quite the opposite. It’s Lidia’s love letter to all those who can’t ever seem to find the “right” path. The Misfit’s Manifesto is for misfits around the world-the rebels, the eccentrics, the oddballs, and anyone who has ever felt like she was messing up. The feeling of not fitting in is universal. She’d failed as daughter, wife, mother, scholar-and yet the dream of being a writer was stuck like “a small sad stone” in her throat. Having flunked out of college twice (and maybe even a third time that she’s not going to tell you about), with two epic divorces under her belt, an episode of rehab for drug use, and two stints in jail, she felt like she would never fit in. It took Lidia a long time to not simply accept, but appreciate, her misfit status. It’s a shameful word, a word no one typically tries to own. “I’m just going to take on tougher challenges, bigger opponents,” Salt Papi said of his next fight, and both said they would be willing to do a rematch.A self-defined misfit makes a powerful case for not fitting in-for recognizing the beauty, and difficulty, in forging an original path.Ī misfit is a person who missed fitting in, a person who fits in badly, or this: a person who is poorly adapted to new situations and environments. I had to prove you guys wrong, man.”Īsked what’s next for him, Taylor called for a fight with Slim Albaher. “Everybody discredited me, talking about I was gonna fuckin’ gas out. “Give a shout-out to Salt Papi here,” Taylor said. I could have gone more rounds, but there’s no more rounds.” I didn’t get knocked out! I was happy fighting with him. “He’s a very tough fighter, that’s why a lot of people are scared of him. “I respect the judges’ decision, he was just the better man tonight and he deserved it, man,” Salt Papi said post-fight. Taylor was able to catch Papi with right hands and then get clear of any of Papi’s ideas for a counter shot, and being totally honest, Papi just was not able to display what we’d seen previously against less-prepared opposition. Papi, who has picked up respect from the crossover world and the “real” boxing world, just got hit too many times, too cleanly by Taylor, a veteran of both MMA and boxing, never a terribly high level in either sport, but a seriously trained fighter who knows what he’s doing in the ring. Taylor won the fight on scores of 29-28, 30-27, and 30-27, and I have a hard time figuring out what round Ian John Lewis gave Papi, but it is Ian John Lewis. Fan favorite Salt Papi took his first loss in “crossover boxing,” dropping a clear decision over three rounds against Anthony Taylor.

Manifesto for misfits