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You are at an age where you should be solidifying your decisions for a life career.If you have no education, you should be getting it because it's never wasted. As for boxing, as an amateur sport under today's rules it's a very good character builder, and if you have a good gym or trainer , they/he will make sure you are never over-matched. At the same time it's important how big and heavy you are because over a certain weight even a klotz can hit you a seriously damaging blow, and you're likely never goung to be expert enough to avoid them all.
As for turning pro...the advice you've been getting so-far are mostly from "macho" wackos. 99 of every hundred professional boxers began as children around 7-10. And only one in a thousand or maybe two or five thousand makes it to any kind of living. And consider, there's a good possibility that you can become physically injured, especially from head shots. Medical authorities have declared that over 65% of all boxers amateur and professional have suffered some form of brain damage and the BMA has been trying for over 50 years to have boxing banned. And this may not show until say, around 70 although it could be earlier. If you check out the late life of so many top fighters you'll find that in their last years, even the cleverest of them had dementia pugilistica and were helpless.
MY OWN advice, if you're asking for it, and I'm not young at all and have seen or experienced nearly everything, is to make sure you have a good gym where the coaches keep an eye on even the sparring, because it is common for better boxers to beat up on inexperienced beginners. it gives them a great feeling. It's an occupation where you go out to maim your opponent for money to provide vicarious blood-letting for the fans, a mob.
And you really are too late in age. Consider that even if you ever get to be a pro, at, say, 27, you will have probably 7-10 years already cut off your expected ring life, and when you've retired, what are you going to be...a cab driver, a doorman a bouncer.... what....?? You'll have to settle down and get out of the habit of travelling around the country and being able to hit the night spots and chorus girls, and you'll have no skills. THIS is what is the fate of the vast majority of fighters. I am always so sorry for them, because when you're young and strong, and active, you think it'll never end..... But it does all too quickly.
So consider very deeply. One person gave you a proper comment; that nearly all who have the same idea go home after the first experience and never go again. Still, it's your life...... not mine.
As for turning pro...the advice you've been getting so-far are mostly from "macho" wackos. 99 of every hundred professional boxers began as children around 7-10. And only one in a thousand or maybe two or five thousand makes it to any kind of living. And consider, there's a good possibility that you can become physically injured, especially from head shots. Medical authorities have declared that over 65% of all boxers amateur and professional have suffered some form of brain damage and the BMA has been trying for over 50 years to have boxing banned. And this may not show until say, around 70 although it could be earlier. If you check out the late life of so many top fighters you'll find that in their last years, even the cleverest of them had dementia pugilistica and were helpless.
MY OWN advice, if you're asking for it, and I'm not young at all and have seen or experienced nearly everything, is to make sure you have a good gym where the coaches keep an eye on even the sparring, because it is common for better boxers to beat up on inexperienced beginners. it gives them a great feeling. It's an occupation where you go out to maim your opponent for money to provide vicarious blood-letting for the fans, a mob.
And you really are too late in age. Consider that even if you ever get to be a pro, at, say, 27, you will have probably 7-10 years already cut off your expected ring life, and when you've retired, what are you going to be...a cab driver, a doorman a bouncer.... what....?? You'll have to settle down and get out of the habit of travelling around the country and being able to hit the night spots and chorus girls, and you'll have no skills. THIS is what is the fate of the vast majority of fighters. I am always so sorry for them, because when you're young and strong, and active, you think it'll never end..... But it does all too quickly.
So consider very deeply. One person gave you a proper comment; that nearly all who have the same idea go home after the first experience and never go again. Still, it's your life...... not mine.
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