Have you ever stepped into the Ring.

lots of backyard boxing. nothing official. i ruptured a friend's eardrum once, he's like 50 pounds lighter than me though. not exactly a big accomplishment. the left side of my jaw still hurts regularly after someone messed it up a little over a year ago. no idea what's wrong with it. but other than an achy jaw and a messed up eardrum it was a lot of nothing. there was the occasional bloody nose, low blow, or headbutt at the most.

had 1 fight and got ktfo that was a white collar match (unlicensed) though and there were no headguards ill be sure to be more successful in the ABA's (headguards and licensed) no doubt

I boxed in highschool, I was pretty decent but I wasn't going to the olympics or anything.

Boxed in the army. Funny thing I ever did was that me and this other kid were jawing at eachother befor the match and I was like i'm gonna go in there and tear his head off. Bell rings and I go run at him and slipped on a sweaty mat and popped my knee out. Man that fuker talk so much shit for like 3 week after that and not one punch was thrown. Im 28 now and am thinking about takin it up again as a hobby. I just neeed to find the right gym. :) Rolf good story, a buddy of mine we were in Golden Gloves, he was called spider man coz he was like 6ft5 and like 147lbs man that dude looked ill, but boy was he fast, in his 2nd fight he got ko'd in like 20 secs, the punch was like a feather tap but he fell off balance and smacked his face on the canvas, man i musta hurt, but not as much as his pride.

Boxed in the army. Funny thing I ever did was that me and this other kid were jawing at eachother befor the match and I was like i'm gonna go in there and tear his head off. Bell rings and I go run at him and slipped on a sweaty mat and popped my knee out. Man that fuker talk so much shit for like 3 week after that and not one punch was thrown. Im 28 now and am thinking about takin it up again as a hobby. I just neeed to find the right gym. :)

Hey guys just wondering who in our community has ever laced on the gloves and stepped through the ropes into the Ring, and if you have, do you have a story about what hapened or anything in your boxing career that was funny worth talking about. My funny story was fighting a guy 2 divisions above my weight class and about 6'taller than me, I had him down 5 times in 4 rounds, got cocky and got KTFO in round 5, I was sparked out for like a whole minute. Unfortunately never between the ropes but I have been in quite a few street fights when I was growing up through Junior high school and early high school. I lived in a tough neighborhood in New York. I really wanted to get involved in the Golden Gloves organization but was too busy with other things and could never commit myself to it.

Gee you're AWFULLY nice! It's kinda sickening! And yeah....I trained in the same Cincy gym as Aaron Pryor about 100 years ago. (about 35 years ago actually)

Its nice that some ppl in here have actually boxed, Im not intending to upset anyone but I will always respect the opinions of a fellow fighter, than just a fan, no disrespect intended to anyone.

I have sparred before. Unfortunately, prior commitments (school, job) have kept me from training consistently as I would need to to compete myself.