Getting into Boxing at a later age

[Rockin']

you can do whatever you set your mind to do at your age.

It all depends on how bad you want it, and you have to want it or you should just take up golf.

I had these dreams of fighting at packed arenas on tv and stuff, it took me 8 years. At 23 now that would make you 31. If you take care of your body 31 is the new 25.

So how bad do you want it, because you will have to sacrifice..........

You've got to believe in yourself or your ****ed in this sport.

'She' has to be boxing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_3GqfaOKBY&index=8&list=PL8B02BE125439F4FD

[creekrat77]

you can do whatever you set your mind to do at your age.

It all depends on how bad you want it, and you have to want it or you should just take up golf.

I had these dreams of fighting at packed arenas on tv and stuff, it took me 8 years. At 23 now that would make you 31. If you take care of your body 31 is the new 25.

So how bad do you want it, because you will have to sacrifice..........

You've got to believe in yourself or your ****ed in this sport.

'She' has to be boxing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_3G...02BE125439F4FD

How futile would it be for me making a run towards a professional career in boxing. I am 20, in shape, good dimensions, walk around at 155 but could make 130. Have always played sports. However I live in Charleston, SC with limited boxing clubs

[strikfirefall]

I have 0 problem with sacrifice. If that means working 20 hours a day, I'll do it.

My main concern right now is money and paying for training if I want to take things further.

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It's perfectly possible from a physical standpoint to start at 23 and be elite by 30 if you LIVED for boxing.

The trouble is more about the business side of things. If your goal is to avoid a desk job then you have a much smaller window to make that million dollar pay day than someone who had 100 amateur fights before they were 20. Gotta be realistic and ask yourself how likely that part is.

Go to a boxing gym and try it out it it's one of the best choices I've ever made, but I chose to keep my day job.

[Rockin']

after I had left my trainer took on a guy who was 22 I believe. A couple of amateur fights later he turns him pro. Goes 6-0 before Johnny took a fight for him that he should have passed on, some Canadian title.

I'm just saying that it can be done at your age. You will need to be 'guided' properly though and work your ass off, but it can be done.

However, you will find nothing harder than this sport, just wanting it will not be enough. Perseverance and a strong resistance to pain are required, other than that it's just a cake walk with atom bombs.

[LOWBLOW_CHAMP]

hell yea go for it im a late bloomer myself but have had success from staying in shape and studying the craft

[LoadedWraps]

Just to put it out there, I have no fantasies of being the next Mayweather or swimming in millions of dollars. I’m 23 and am really interested in getting into boxing. I’ve been out of sports for a couple years now, but I grew up playing basketball, and played all the way into college, so I'm no stranger to the athletic world.

I live in LA and was just hoping to set up one session with a local trainer just to get their input and a feel for it. I’m 6’0 and around 200 lbs (I plan to lose a few) and I have really long arms. I live near the beach so I have the opportunity to run and bike along a clear path.

I was just wondering if any of you had any advice for someone who is starting late and wouldn’t mind becoming an amateur boxer? Chances of becoming successful, amount of money needed, stuff like that? When I’m really into something, I become obsessed, so work ethic never has been, and never will be, a problem.

I can’t see myself working a 9-5 desk job, and boxing is a career where you don’t do that. I’m still trying to figure out what I want to do with my life and I want to look into everything that interests me.

Also, I plan to ask this same question in another forum, so if any of you see it there as well, you know why.

Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Serious answer: Post this crap in the F'ing training forum.

[tjones1989]

Go for it bruh don't listen to the haters. Put in the hard work and dedication and go as far as you can. It's all that matters man.

[ironmike2012]

What do you have to lose? Go for it. This is an old story, but I watched a Rocky Marciano documentary once and he was something like 22-23 (which was ancient in those days) when he started. Also the first gym he went to, the trainers told him "to go home before he got hurt", I laughed when I heard that, if he would have listened to them instead of believing in himself he would have never accomplished what he did. Also Deontay Wilder and Seth Mitchell both got a late start (they were both football players who got injured).

[wansen64]

I lived in Santa Monica in the 80's when the only gym around was VIP in Venice Beach (Hearns trained there for the Hill fight).

Now there is more than a few including Wild Card West (owned by Shandling and Berg) and http://www.boxnburn.com owned by the former British bronze medalist.