Careers in boxing?

[Dice]

college degrees may not be needed to break into boxing. Your problem is that you said high paying jobs and thats just not gonna happen early on. I want to be in the biz too but as a ref. In your case, the degree in management would help, but you gotta be hungry and have desire. You gotta go to the Golden Boy or the Top Rank websites and send resumes, ask for internships, hell anything. Its hard but not impossible.

[boxing_pundit85]

college degrees may not be needed to break into boxing. Your problem is that you said high paying jobs and thats just not gonna happen early on. I want to be in the biz too but as a ref. In your case, the degree in management would help, but you gotta be hungry and have desire. You gotta go to the Golden Boy or the Top Rank websites and send resumes, ask for internships, hell anything. Its hard but not impossible.

thanks for the help man. yeah i dont expect to make anything right off the bat, maybe later on,, as i said in an earlier post, my nyu buddy is basically going to be a slave(he got a business degree). i know 60k is good money, but not for how much work he put in at school and then 90 hours a week. basically you are gonna have to work for **** for a while in any proffesion unless u have connections.

[Dice]

look at your sig man, in a few years thats gonna be your friend and thats how you want to be, now do you want to specifically be a promotor, or are their other interests?

[boxing_pundit85]

college degrees may not be needed to break into boxing. Your problem is that you said high paying jobs and thats just not gonna happen early on. I want to be in the biz too but as a ref. In your case, the degree in management would help, but you gotta be hungry and have desire. You gotta go to the Golden Boy or the Top Rank websites and send resumes, ask for internships, hell anything. Its hard but not impossible.

look at your sig man, in a few years thats gonna be your friend and thats how you want to be, now do you want to specifically be a promotor, or are their other interests?

my concern is that i wouldnt be able to work my ass off if i was just working with numbers or something like that. i already basically made a choice that i wasnt gonna do that after i went to asu instead of going to nyu with my buddy. i want to make my own money but i have a little time to **** around and chase dreams i guess. in answer to your question, anything where i would get to be around world class boxers and go to big fights. i could work my ass if i at least got to be in that type of environment, ya know, not just sitting at a desk.

[Dice]

On the promotion side of things, I would recomend you go to the big promo websites like Top Rank, Main Events, Golden Boy, and these websites all have contact sections. Shoot those guys a question, ask if theres any entry level jobs open and work your way up.

On the management side of things, unless you can land a job at a big company, your best bet is to hover around local boxing gyms, notice the talent, even in your neighborhood, notice the guys who have a love for boxing and then hook them up at a boxing gym, help them train and go to the head trainer at a gym and say, listen this guy right here has potentional. You start at the bottem but land at the top.

And you being biligual is huge help as top promo companies need translators for fighters

[boxing_pundit85]

On the promotion side of things, I would recomend you go to the big promo websites like Top Rank, Main Events, Golden Boy, and these websites all have contact sections. Shoot those guys a question, ask if theres any entry level jobs open and work your way up.

On the management side of things, unless you can land a job at a big company, your best bet is to hover around local boxing gyms, notice the talent, even in your neighborhood, notice the guys who have a love for boxing and then hook them up at a boxing gym, help them train and go to the head trainer at a gym and say, listen this guy right here has potentional. You start at the bottem but land at the top.

And you being biligual is huge help as top promo companies need translators for fighters

thanks again for the help. yeah i know spanish will help but that doesnt really make me stand out, hopefully there is an explosion with russian boxers over the next five years, cuz i know not a lot of people will put in the time to learn it, it takes ****ing forever to learn and its virtually impossible unless u either have a great memory or a phenenomal work ethic. i think the army has a 1-5 difficualty scale for languages and spanish is a 1, russian is a 4 and a lot of the asian ones are 5s

[Phantasm]

Try the Fight Promoter University. I've been thinking about trying it out.

[CardioMonster]

in the entertainment industry, it is who you know, not necessarily what you know. There are thousands of people out there trying to break into sports management. Alot of the people in sports management have never stepped into a college. Alot of them have trouble signing their own name,

[Degsy]

in the entertainment industry, it is who you know, not necessarily what you know. There are thousands of people out there trying to break into sports management. Alot of the people in sports management have never stepped into a college. Alot of them have trouble signing their own name,

True, a lot of people's careers have been about being in the right place at the right time. But you can certainly help yourself by being in as many 'right' places e.g. internships, as you can manage. The main thing is never be afraid of someone saying no, they can only ever say no. Academics are not so important, though a knowledge of sports and media law wouldn't do you any harm. Most of the guys at the top have only been to the 'University of Life', some of them are really unsavoury characters e.g. Funny haired double murderer, so you've got to be tough to run with them.

Good luck and give it a go, if you try and fail, at least you won't sit there in years time asking yourself what could have been.....