The best way to become amateur

[NChristo-]

White collar boxing doesn't count but it is the only way to get the experience of being in a ring and performing in front of an audience.

Don't ask the gym because you want them to notice you first. It gets embarrassing looking desperate. Boxing gyms know everyone loses interest and a small minority keep grinding.

You're an idiot, how does it look embarrassing asking to join a gym ?.

Many amateur places won't allow someone has done a lot of White collar to join their gym, if they recognize you.

[RossyJames]

Response to all, yeah I'm from the UK.

I think a gym where it places you into different groups depending on your ability will be best for me, obviously I'll start out in the beginners group and then I'll know I've made progress if I'm asked to move up etc.

I'm thinking about going to an amateur club and paying per single sessions until I feel I know what I'm doing and then maybe do a white collar boxing tournament so that I get a feel of what it's like to perform in front of an audience, but if at my amateur club they can get me fights then I'll do that.

The only downside of that is I wouldn't want a loss on my record if I'm not ready and my amateur coach is setting me up for a complete miss match, with white collar it wouldn't count on it so I think I'll do amateur training, white collar and then go back to amateur and then be booked for my debut match.

[RossyJames]

You're an idiot, how does it look embarrassing asking to join a gym ?.

Many amateur places won't allow someone has done a lot of White collar to join their gym, if they recognize you.

Would entering one white collar boxing competition mean refusal in amateur gyms? I'm wanting to perform in front of an audience at least once before I am set up to begin my amateur career, this is because of miss matches etc, you can get coaches lying about your ability etc just to make their top fighters look good with knockouts and all of that.

As explained above, white collar boxing, losses aren't recorded so I'd like to try it first and then I'll have a better idea on if I'm any good, to go 0-1 due to a coach that's building my hopes up for their benefit wouldn't be great.

[NChristo-]

Would entering one white collar boxing competition mean refusal in amateur gyms? I'm wanting to perform in front of an audience at least once before I am set up to begin my amateur career, this is because of miss matches etc, you can get coaches lying about your ability etc just to make their top fighters look good with knockouts and all of that.

As explained above, white collar boxing, losses aren't recorded so I'd like to try it first and then I'll have a better idea on if I'm any good, to go 0-1 due to a coach that's building my hopes up for their benefit wouldn't be great.

It could do, there was a guy who used to box at my gym that came in bruised up, trainer asked him where he got it then told him that he knows he was in a white collar bout and kicked him out. It's because they don't go on your record, a guy could have 15 white collar bouts then walk into an amateur gym pretending to have 0, it isn't right.

Wouldn't worry about performing infront of an audience, once you step into the ring you don't really notice them.

"before I am set up to begin my amateur career, this is because of miss matches etc, you can get coaches lying about your ability etc just to make their top fighters look good with knockouts and all of that"


You don't get coaches lying about your ability at all, you haven't even been to a gym yet so what are you talking about ?, "because of miss matches" right so you want to have unrecorded bout so you can get in the ring with some guy who has never been in front of an audience either and slap him around ?, if there's any miss matches it won't be because a gym "wants to make their top fighters look good" () it will be because you're better than the other guy, something genuinely went wrong with the matchmaking or because one of the people have had unrecorded fights.