Good idea to drop out of High school for a boxing career?

[SUBZER0ED]

Get your HS diploma. If you didn't start boxing when you were between 6 and 10 years old and you're not a special natural talent, chances are you're already too old. Be honest with yourself; are you really that good? Even if you are, you want to be educated so people don't take advantage of you.

[keepemup]

There's nothing special about high school. A person could complete whatever coursework on their own in 1/8th the time if home schooled or something similar and they'd be without the bull**** brainwashing.

Knowledge doesn't come from school.

[Nash out]

Whatever happened, he couldn’t be any worse than Sutherland.

In the ring, but nobody beats Brian Sutherland on the cobbles. Nash out.

[real raw]

Terrible idea.

[b Murphington]

Get your HS diploma. If you didn't start boxing when you were between 6 and 10 years old and you're not a special natural talent, chances are you're already too old. Be honest with yourself; are you really that good? Even if you are, you want to be educated so people don't take advantage of you.

With the right promotion, strings being pulled, hand picked opponents, and money, anyone can disguise themselves as a “talent” and make it far in the sport of boxing. But you know how it goes. The truth eventually comes out.

[billeau2]

I plan on dropping out of high school during my Sop****re year (10th) so i an focus my time on pure Boxing training for my amateur bouts.. i am currently 16 and i can go professional when i turn 18. So my plan is that i drop out of high school spend 2 years of my life training hard isolating myself from friends, social life etc. Seems kinda weird? but it will pay off later during my professional era that's if i stick to the plan and stay DEDICATED. Thank you for reading this post and please leave me some comments and your thoughts about my plan. Please no trolls. I want honest answers.

Current Amateur record 22-0.

young man,
If you are 16 you have more than enough time and energy to do both... I wouldn't recommend what you are doing. Also. since when is isolating oneself productive? Just plug into the right social network... I mean if you were in Baltimore and you "Isolated" from guys shooting and going to strip clubs that is one thing, but all these young guys coming up KN OW each other because they were part of the same social network for fighters coming up...

Your biggest challenge is to find the money to buy food (I know if you are training you are putting it down lol!) and to pay for boxing essentials. For that try to find a part time job. Please reconsider the notion that you are taking away from boxing if you work and go to school... Does not work that way at your age...

I want to conclude this post to share one more thing with you: One of the greatest heavyweight fighters ever, was a man functionally illiterate. He was embarrassed by this his entire life... To top it off, he was one of the smartest and most methodical fighters... he had no choice. He simply was not taught to read and it really created problems for him his entire life... that man was Sonny Liston.

[billeau2]

There's nothing special about high school. A person could complete whatever coursework on their own in 1/8th the time if home schooled or something similar and they'd be without the bull**** brainwashing.

Knowledge doesn't come from school.

Thats ignorant. Sure... We have massive problems with our education system. But you live in a society that has carved out a place for you to educate yourself before working your entire life. Knowledge comes from a lot of things... An education is one of them.

[keepemup]

Thats ignorant. Sure... We have massive problems with our education system. But you live in a society that has carved out a place for you to educate yourself before working your entire life. Knowledge comes from a lot of things... An education is one of them.

A person doesn't need school to be educated. It's mostly a waste of time.

[billeau2]

A person doesn't need school to be educated. It's mostly a waste of time.

your taking a true statement (the first part) and drawing a false conclusion (the second part). You dont want nuclear physics? people who know Cuniform? programers, doctors? People who can speak about arcane areas of knowledge and understanding?

[YGriffith]

With the right promotion, strings being pulled, hand picked opponents, and money, anyone can disguise themselves as a “talent” and make it far in the sport of boxing. But you know how it goes. The truth eventually comes out.

Exactly, and you're not getting special treatment if you're not already someone special, be it talent wise, charisma or whatever..

And to climb up the boxing ladder as a nobody from the bottom and staying undefeated till you make it to the top 10, you might as well climb everest with no gear and no clothes.