What boxingscene members are boxers?

[The Hammer]

Who among you are boxers yourselves, and who among you are just boxing fans?

[sweetpea87]

Boxing fan here. I was in a boxing gym for 4 months last year, but never fought and had to leave the gym cause of medical issues. I would have been a terrible fighter anyways.

[sweetpea87]

What about you Tunney?

[Shattered Jaw]

I've had several amateur bouts. Only go the gym once a week now if I can make it...

[G Doggy Dog]

right now im just a fan. i start training on the 15th get down to cruiserweight before i have a fight. then go down and down from there. hopefully dont get KTFO in the process lmfao!

[TheMexHurricane]

Who among you are boxers yourselves, and who among you are just boxing fans?

I was almost a boxer. I was veeeery tall for my division, fast, hard hitting and even harder headed(both literaaly and figuratively). In my first week I brutalized a 3 divisions bigger guy who'd brutalized everybody in every fight to win the golden gloves by KO's(ie 10 counts--not TKO's). The trainers in that gym gave every new guy a gut check in the first week so that they wouldn't waste time with quitters. After trying different guys they had to get a heavyweight who was 6" taller and 120 lbs heavier because I was too rough for everybody else. This heavyweight loosened my front teeth, bruised my eye sockets area of my face, slighty disfigured the cartilage on the inside of my nose to this day and the worse part is that he also affected my hearing. Needless to say he gave me a horrific beating. My brother was traumatized from what he witnessed. I went back the second day in severe pain figuring they'd give me a break-- until they anounced to me I'd spar the same guy again. I recall very clearly that when I looked across the ring at his massive shoulders I literally got instant diarrhea and almost **** myself. I barely beat this guy the 2nd time with pure determination and the whole of the gyms occupants, who'd stopped working out to watch, erupted in applause and cheering. My "boxing career" actually ended the first time I sparred this guy. I could not enter a ring again due to the damage caused to my ear. I never even had my first amateur match. The head trainer's daughter years later told my brother that he was so dissapointed at the fact that I could never fight that he quit and closed the gym. He's involved with amateur boxing now as an official on the state level. It worked out good for me because boxing could've affected my intellegence. If I had quit I would've been a fighter but my stubborness wouldn't let me. This is why I always hope for a quick KO by body shot for the fighter I'm rooting for. This is also why I hate it when trainers let their fighters take a beating. This affected me and so did watching a kid die in the ring a few years later.

[-EAGLE-]

i was an amateur i'm 21 stopped because had no time for school otherwise

[G Doggy Dog]

I was almost a boxer. I was veeeery tall for my division, fast, hard hitting and even harder headed(both literaaly and figuratively). In my first week I brutalized a 3 divisions bigger guy who'd brutalized everybody in every fight to win the golden gloves by KO's(ie 10 counts--not TKO's). The trainers in that gym gave every new guy a gut check in the first week so that they wouldn't waste time with quitters. After trying different guys they had to get a heavyweight who was 6" taller and 120 lbs heavier because I was too rough for everybody else. This heavyweight loosened my front teeth, bruised my eye sockets area of my face, slighty disfigured the cartilage on the inside of my nose to this day and the worse part is that he also affected my hearing. Needless to say he gave me a horrific beating. My brother was traumatized from what he witnessed. I went back the second day in severe pain figuring they'd give me a break-- until they anounced to me I'd spar the same guy again. I recall very clearly that when I looked across the ring at his massive shoulders I literally got instant diarrhea and almost **** myself. I barely beat this guy the 2nd time with pure determination and the whole of the gyms occupants, who'd stopped working out to watch, erupted in applause and cheering. My "boxing career" actually ended the first time I sparred this guy. I could not enter a ring again due to the damage caused to my ear. I never even had my first amateur match. The head trainer's daughter years later told my brother that he was so dissapointed at the fact that I could never fight that he quit and closed the gym. He's involved with amateur boxing now as an official on the state level. It worked out good for me because boxing could've affected my intellegence. If I had quit I would've been a fighter but my stubborness wouldn't let me. This is why I always hope for a quick KO by body shot for the fighter I'm rooting for. This is also why I hate it when trainers let their fighters take a beating. This affected me and so did watching a kid die in the ring a few years later.

dam what a clown doing that to you in sparring. its sparring not an all out war. hit hard but dont kill the guy. i hate people that take sparring to the next level and try to gain pride by beating everyone up. its all about learning from eachohter. sorry to hear that man

[Evil Abed]

I'm involved with College Boxing.

[TheMexHurricane]

dam what a clown doing that to you in sparring. its sparring not an all out war. hit hard but dont kill the guy. i hate people that take sparring to the next level and try to gain pride by beating everyone up. its all about learning from eachohter. sorry to hear that man

What's worse was the trainer telling me(in Spanish) dumb **** like "don't quit" "show me your balls" "don't be a ******" "endure the whip" etc, etc-- nothing about sticking and moving cuz the gorilla is too big. Typical dumb Mexican machismo. It all worked out for the best though-- but I do have to say though that as much as I love watching boxing I'd ban it if I could. Laters.