The most grief you've got as a boxer

[Stormin' Norman]

I didn't get much grief from being a fighter, when i first started my grandmother was agaisnt it, saying it was a gangster sport and i would get mixed up with the wrong people, that was like 10 years ago, now every time she talks to me she asks how my training is going.

About 2 years ago i was at a party, and a ex-girlfriend was there with her ****** hockey player boyfriend. The guy knew who i was and kept trying to give me attitude like he was a badass or something. I walked up to them just to say hi to the girl(I have to admit i wanted to **** the dude up as soon as i saw him.), he told me to leave his girl alone or i would regret it. I told him that she was probably thinking of me when he was ****ing her. I wasn't even done with my setence that he swung at me, he missed and i cracked him with a straight left. He dropped to the ground like a pounch of potato.

I walked away like nothing happened, she was screaming at like crazy, i'll always remember what she said "*******, YOU'RE JUST AN ANIMAL, PEOPLE LIKE YOU SHOULD BE LOCKED IN A CAGE!"

The day after my mother called me, the ***** had called my mother to tell her what happened. Mom gave me some ****.

good read,

my favorite line was, 'although I have to admit i wanted to **** the dude up as soon as i saw him'

[sweet*science]

Please click one of the Quick Reply icons in the posts above to activate Quick Reply.Just recently I had my friends nephew or cousin explain to me how "sick his hands are". The kid stands up in the middle of the living room while we are all watching the clottey and judah fight and starts shadow boxing while telling me he has been knocked out before and it wasnt that bad, LOL!

Can anyone say COMEDY???

[Hitman18]

The most annoying is when lazy asses who dont do **** all day say that boxing and streetfighting are different, as if the boxer doesn't know it, and that a boxer will get his ass kicked in the streets.

[Domey]

How about seeing people that you seen down the gym once or twice tell people in the street "Yea, I suse to box"

Oh, cause you went down the gym, did a work out, put some gloves on, and hit the bag for a few rounds, you use to box? Cracks me up every time.

[Nsull15]

at 6'1 and 135 i get a lot of **** about being skinny but its ****** because if people knew anything about boxing theyd know that your matched up by weight and besides some of the best boxers were skinny men and im only 15 so i got time to grow and fill out

[msagrain]

I'v gotten "You a boxer... haha" quite a few times by people who don't know me to well. I generally don't tell peole tho.

[Stormin' Norman]

at 6'1 and 135 i get a lot of **** about being skinny but its ****** because if people knew anything about boxing theyd know that your matched up by weight and besides some of the best boxers were skinny men and im only 15 so i got time to grow and fill out

holy **** are u serious


u should change your first name to Mashiba


edit- buddy if you arent bull****ting, turn your jab into your best tool and try to stay at lightweight...

i dont mean just put glvoes on and hit the bag, i mean every spare second of free time you get you should be throwing a jab, throw jabs in the ****in elevator, throw jabs on your lunch break, **** it. make sure you turn that ***** over and master that proper jab technique

[fraidycat]

Every now and again some ****head from the fantasy fights and lounge boards who doesn't train and doesn't fight says he would knock me out.

Oh, wait. It's the same ****head every time. Never mind.

Aside from him, the worst grief I've gotten has been from doctors, especially after the car accident last spring wherein I messed up my neck. My doctor is the team doctor for our local major league baseball team. He was away at Spring Training when I got in my wreck, so I went to see my wife's doctor, a GP / family physician. First thing he told me was, "Guys your age shouldn't box. I'd strongly recommend you give it up. You're going to have all kinds of neck injuries."

Uh, doc? I strengthen my neck. I do bridges. I do power cleans. I have a harness and weights for my head. I have a neck like a pit bull, that's why it's only a severe sprain and not a fracture.

The chiropractor I saw, the first physical therapist, the massage therapist, and the first two orthopedic surgeons, when they found out I boxed, advised me to stop it; especially with this injury.

I finally went to my own doctor. He understands jocks. He knows that a competitive fighter's physical pain tolerance is a hell of a lot higher than most people, and that when I complain of pain, he needs to listen. I once waited two weeks to have him look at a broken hand because I thought it was a bruise and would go away eventually. I'm that ******.

He also had a hand-held dynamometer that goes to 300 lbs, not 200. The chiropractor and both orthopedists had 200-lb. dynamometers; they couldn't tell that I'd lost grip strength because I can peg the meter with each hand. My doc works with professional baseball players. He knew right away that something was ****ing up my arm; my dominant hand was only 10 lbs. stronger than my non-dominant hand. He had a new series of MRI's run on my neck at a very specific angle, and found the problem: my "sprain" was a herniated disc. A piece of the disc had been pinched off and was lodged next to my spinal cord, pinching off the nerve to my right arm and giving me headaches.

He said, "That must hurt so bad, I'm surprised you can even see."

"Yeah, it smarts."

"You got deep tissue massage on that? Didn't you say anything?"

"I figured it was supposed to hurt."

He shook his head. "Jesus."

"Can you fix it?"

"Yeah. I'll send you to a guy."

"I won't have to quit boxing?"

"Once the stitches come out, you're good to go."

45-minute operation under a local, six stitches, and I was sparring again in three weeks.

If you box, go to a sports physician. Get a reference from your trainer, or call the local high school or even your local major-league team if you have one. Find out who the jocks go to. Do not go to a GP.

[T.I.P.]

I'v gotten "You a boxer... haha" quite a few times by people who don't know me to well. I generally don't tell peole tho.

Yeah, I got into fight about that. I was starting college and we had to all say what were interest in etc. And I said boxing. So this kid says do ya box? Yes. And he starts talking **** saying I could have ya easy. People just cant handle people being more respected than them. He asked me for a fight so I have it him, left hook to the body and a right uppercut and he was down. Weren't even tough shots he was a fat **** though but it felt ****ing good.

[Stormin' Norman]

Yeah, I got into fight about that. I was starting college and we had to all say what were interest in etc. And I said boxing. So this kid says do ya box? Yes. And he starts talking **** saying I could have ya easy. People just cant handle people being more respected than them. He asked me for a fight so I have it him, left hook to the body and a right uppercut and he was down. Weren't even tough shots he was a fat **** though but it felt ****ing good.

u a lyin mother****er if i ever heard one.