Starting late in Boxing

[TheCleaner]

Charles Martin became heavyweight world champion.... Started at 22, should have enough to retire very comfortably after that 8.5mill pay day

I think it's a good thing that it's happening for all sorts of walks of life. It's now possible to access a lot of high quality knowledge and info.. Want to be an electrician.. Painter? you don't need to have done it since the day you left school anymore.

Muscle memory, automatic responses etc must take a lot to catch up though. Kind of like a person who learns to drive very late.. The autopilot mode is easy when you learn to drive early

[HAMMER77777]

Correct, I should have specified. Clearly there are success stories of individuals who can and have retired on boxing alone. How many per year are retiring their boxing income is probably astonishingly low, but it does happen. When typing that I was thinking of the pros who fight in their state/country, are gym heroes, and go on to coaching or back to whatever their other trade was. Even guys who get a few televised fights can't retire on boxing.

My mind was not even on the possibility of the OP reaching super-stardom. Not to sound like a dream killer or anything, but it's like the lottery; the chances of it happening are nearly the same whether you participate or not.

Good point. But thats true in any sport. Baseball, football, basketball, soccer, whatever. 1 fraction of 1% get Rich playing. My father is an excellent tennis player. Problem is there are 1000's of excellent tennis players in The World, when only the top 50-100 players play Full-Time professionally. So even for an excellent player, the chances are beyond minuscule. Obviously this would apply to Boxing Or any other sport, as well.
My point was that it's not "never". For every 999,999 basketball players, theres a MJ, or Lebron in there somewhere LOL!

[BuakawBanchamek]

My mind was not even on the possibility of the OP reaching super-stardom. Not to sound like a dream killer or anything, but it's like the lottery; the chances of it happening are nearly the same whether you participate or not.

I know the odds are super hard to beat but luckily I started Boxing at the age of 14 and played soccer several years before that as well as lifting since ~13. I definitely got talent but I am a realist.
I'll keep gaining experience until I am maybe 25ish before I even consider going pro if everything goes well.

And indeed I got a Plan B. I'm a good student luckily.