My fight at Ringside Tournament - Facing a giant

[BafanaBafana]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxYrBw6xFDs

Heres my 8th fight, it was at Ringside Boxing Tournament in Kansas City. Its the biggest amateur boxing tournament in the world it happens every year. There were 1600 boxers and 1000 fights. Lots of states were there, Canada, Australia, Mexico, and a few other countries.

I met Kermit Cintron and took a pic with him, guys from his gym were fighting and he trained there wednesday and thursday and then headed down to OKC for his fight on Friday Night Fights. Kosta Tsyzus gym was there, Ponce De Leon's gym, Cintrons gym and Roy Jones Sr. I fought a guy who had Roy Sr. in his corner.

Im red corner, guy I fought was a giant, 6'3" while in 5'8" so I had to get dirty on him. I did a bit to much holding but i had to blast inside and keep him there and make it ugly. Plus they changed my time of my fight and which ring i was in, i had at maximum 5 minutes to run get gloved up and get in the ring. I almost got DQ'd for being late, yet somehow when i got there my opponent was gloved up, waiting and ready to go. It seemed shady i had ZERO TIME to warm up but it seemed like he knew ahead of time. Oh well I still thought I won.

Who do you guys thing won?

The guy in the blue hit you with a lot of rabbit punches, I'm not sure if those count considering amateur boxing follows a point system.

Scoring it round by round I thought you won the first pretty clearly, the second round he landed some good shots on you at the beginning of the round and probably won it, but you took the third by landing the heavier shots and keeping the pressure on him. Pretty good fight!

[Money_May]

You dirty bastard

You were fighting P. Will and did what you had to do.

I personally thought you won 2-1. Good stuff man.

[Accountoffline]

Hey man, credit to you, I know how hard it is getting in there with a guy who is much taller, I'm 5'10 around 204lbs and fought a 6'5, 230lbs fireman and although he won with his jab keeping me at bay, I hurt him in round 3 badly. I'll give the fight to you as you were the more active fighter and kept going forward. Just keep your hands up bro, and remember there's nothing wrong with counterpunching and roughing up on the inside.

Peace

[WarMaidana]

The guy in the blue hit you with a lot of rabbit punches, I'm not sure if those count considering amateur boxing follows a point system.

Scoring it round by round I thought you won the first pretty clearly, the second round he landed some good shots on you at the beginning of the round and probably won it, but you took the third by landing the heavier shots and keeping the pressure on him. Pretty good fight!

those rabbit punches arent supposed to count, actually none of his pitter pats to my head when i was on the inside should have counted but i figure they gave the american the benefit of the doubt when fighting a canadian and gave him those

[WarMaidana]

I thought u won. I know amateur scoring is different so they gave him points when yall were holding and he was hitting you with those tap tap punches to the head.

When he does that put your head to his body and then duck down and throw to the body.

those punches still shouldnt have counted in amateur but they prob gave it to him cause he was the american. And also the scoring was supposed to change to pro (10 point must) scoring on June 1st, yet they said itd take a bit longer to switch over yet it still hasnt kicekd in

[shenmue]

I can see why you like guys like Maidana, Lucas, Rios and Froch etc you fight with a similar tactic. Nice work i thought you won but that's AM Boxing for you.

[WarMaidana]

I can see why you like guys like Maidana, Lucas, Rios and Froch etc you fight with a similar tactic. Nice work i thought you won but that's AM Boxing for you.

haha, love those guys, love their warrior mentality and thats the way i like to fight and spar. And thanks man

[edgarg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxYrBw6xFDs

Heres my 8th fight, it was at Ringside Boxing Tournament in Kansas City. Its the biggest amateur boxing tournament in the world it happens every year. There were 1600 boxers and 1000 fights. Lots of states were there, Canada, Australia, Mexico, and a few other countries.

I met Kermit Cintron and took a pic with him, guys from his gym were fighting and he trained there wednesday and thursday and then headed down to OKC for his fight on Friday Night Fights. Kosta Tsyzus gym was there, Ponce De Leon's gym, Cintrons gym and Roy Jones Sr. I fought a guy who had Roy Sr. in his corner.

Im red corner, guy I fought was a giant, 6'3" while in 5'8" so I had to get dirty on him. I did a bit to much holding but i had to blast inside and keep him there and make it ugly. Plus they changed my time of my fight and which ring i was in, i had at maximum 5 minutes to run get gloved up and get in the ring. I almost got DQ'd for being late, yet somehow when i got there my opponent was gloved up, waiting and ready to go. It seemed shady i had ZERO TIME to warm up but it seemed like he knew ahead of time. Oh well I still thought I won.

Who do you guys thing won?

Personally I'd have given the fight to you. Of course not being at ringside, it's just what I think. A couple of things; I couldn't understand why you were bending and bouncing and head ducking when you were 3-4 paces away from him. Then, he was very slow and lethargic and was waiting for you to come in low and time you with a modified "bolo". That's when you could have feinted the move, (quick half-step forward, then back, then forward again when he threw) got him to throw, and when his arm is up from his follow through, he'd be completely open. Takes practice of course.

I also thought that you were completely nullifying your attack by running in and getting so close that it was only mauling. A half step further away would have been better, your headhunting was useless, with no power, just arm punches because you smothered yourself by all the close grappling. The idea for a shorter boxer to get close is not to grapple and weakly flail at his far away head, but so that he can go to the body and for this you need to use your arms and elbows to force his arms outside yours, which leaves his body open. That's when "what looks like "grappling" is actually part of infighting. Joe Cortez would be jumping in before you even got started.

Another thing; a cardinal rule with southpaws is to make sure your left foot is OUTSIDE his right foot and lead with your right hand, in this case to the body over and over, making sure your left glove is protecting your head. He had a wide open guard. If he starts timing you, then you must feint that shot more, to get him to react early and leave himself open. I don't know if my comments are what you are looking for, if not I apologise.

Others may disagree, but that's how I was taught, and it worked. Just my opinion. Good Luck.

[torosboxing75]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxYrBw6xFDs

Heres my 8th fight, it was at Ringside Boxing Tournament in Kansas City. Its the biggest amateur boxing tournament in the world it happens every year. There were 1600 boxers and 1000 fights. Lots of states were there, Canada, Australia, Mexico, and a few other countries.

I met Kermit Cintron and took a pic with him, guys from his gym were fighting and he trained there wednesday and thursday and then headed down to OKC for his fight on Friday Night Fights. Kosta Tsyzus gym was there, Ponce De Leon's gym, Cintrons gym and Roy Jones Sr. I fought a guy who had Roy Sr. in his corner.

Im red corner, guy I fought was a giant, 6'3" while in 5'8" so I had to get dirty on him. I did a bit to much holding but i had to blast inside and keep him there and make it ugly. Plus they changed my time of my fight and which ring i was in, i had at maximum 5 minutes to run get gloved up and get in the ring. I almost got DQ'd for being late, yet somehow when i got there my opponent was gloved up, waiting and ready to go. It seemed shady i had ZERO TIME to warm up but it seemed like he knew ahead of time. Oh well I still thought I won.

Who do you guys thing won?

1st round was a little hard to score but I gave it to you, the second round was your best round I thought and the third was pretty even with you winning the first half and he took the second half. Over all very good work keep it up.

[JDezi4]

I'd say u won, but u were very sloppy looking... But it did help u win against a very tall rangy opponent so I can't say it was a bad thing

But if ur gonna that close to someone, u should go to the body more... Especially if u ever turn pro