I need help getting a professional fight in New Jersey

[ScottDBA]

This thread is pretty funny, and I don't think it was supposed to be.

[Oriachim]

Look man I know you want a sierous topic and I know some peoples replys weren't what you was asking for but some of your comments were ridicoulous. (whatever the spelling is).

Its fair enough if you wanna go pro boxing, cause lots of people skipped amateurs and went pro. (nate campbell, some pro footballer in england I know who has a 7-0 record, margarito and more).

However you know you got a good chin because you smack yourself in the face? Thats a silly comment... Ever been punched by a person? Whos trained and hits hard? I have and walking into right hands hurts.

Secondly saying you got margaritos style is silly because how would you know if you haven't boxed in the ring with a real boxer before? Loads of newbies go into the ring swarming people with punches, does that make them margarito? No.

Thirdly blaming your life for a reason to start boxing or not taking up boxing was silly to, not gonna explain why.

If you wanna go pro seriously, goto a gym where pros are, talk to the coach, learn the basics. (you can't run before you walk can you?) see what its like to get ****** by a pro then talk to a promoter and bam you're sorted. it costs about £1000 in england for a license and a crazy $25-200 in the usa.

GOOD LUCK.

Personally 22 yrs old isn't to old to go to the amateurs, nate started boxing at 28...

[niroj]

oh dear god you wanna skip straight to professional lemme tell you something I know guys that have done over 300 fights in am and they're still not doing well in the pros.

having am fight is prerequisite to going pro at least for me.

Tell ya what go have a full contact sparring match against a pro even one that is half your weight and they'll tell you what's up and besides no promoter would pick up some bum with no am fights and promote them.

[Jambo boy]

This thread is lamo. Well done Caster Troy, and if it wasn't meant to be funny, then why not try suicide.

Seriously, kill yourself.

[Patty Tanager]

ROFL .

[keepthemhandsup]

reminds me of someone else

[insipiens]

Send me a video. Maybe I can help.

[TheBlackSwifty]

my style is like margaritos.

My style is similar to Margarito ...My work-rate is like Margarito's where I keep punching and I pressure the fighter.

Ya style aint like no-one, you had no training, no sparring, and no fights, you aint got any "style" but noob style, and that aint style man, thats wack.

[Jambo boy]

Ya style aint like no-one, you had no training, no sparring, and no fights, you aint got any "style" but noob style, and that aint style man, thats wack.

You obviously haven't seen his youtube videos.

His style is....... unique.

[BennyST]

I know you want to just get on with it, but you will really need to go find a gym and get a trainer first before anything else CT. Fighting fist fights, or playing around with your friends, and all things similar is nothing like going up against another guy who has actually trained, knows his fundamentals and has sparred with other experienced guys and fought professionally. I don't mean to sound patronising, but you would simply not know what hit you, no pun intended.

You need to understand that to take two steps forward you will need to take one back first, otherwise you will just go back and back and back. Seriously mate, if you've never trained in a professional gym with experienced trainers and fighters then you won't know what your style is for one, you definitely don't know whether you have a good chin or not, again not to be patronising, but getting wacked by your mate who you described as a crackhead, whether he hit hard or not, is so vastly different to getting hit by a hard straight right from a well trained, hard hitting pro fighter or getting caught with a left hook you didn't see coming, it's highly likely that you will find yourself looking up at the ceiling wondering why people are all looking down at you. Not saying this would happen, but don't pretend to understand your limitations when you have never had them even slightly tested.

I hope you understand that I'm not trying to dissuade you or say that you can't do it. Quite the opposite in fact. The thing you have to understand though is that even the guys that didn't have an amateur career, or much of one anyway (nearly every pro fighter had an amateur career no matter how small), is that they trained under strict guidance from pro trainers and sparred with the best available sparring partners out there, otherwise they would never have been able to get anything done.

One thing to remember is that if you enter the pro ranks, you could fight any number of chumps that don't really give much of a ****e about getting to the top, but even these guys have generally had quite a lot of professional training, and then of course, you have the guys that are pro's who have been through the amateur ranks and all the rest of it.

You described yourself as having a Margarito-like style. You might think that you will fight like Margarito because you want to come forward and fight and pressure the opponent, but you are forgetting that Margarito has very solid fundamentals. He is a much better boxer than your average Joe Blow pro fighter. To get anywhere, you need to at least have a decent foundation in the basics of boxing from a good trainer. If you try to fight like Margarito against a well schooled pressure fighter, I can nearly guarantee that you will get blown out. It's not putting you down mate, or saying you can't fight, but boxing and fighting are two different things. Boxing is a sport with rules, fighting is just fighting. You learn the basics and use the rules to your advantage.

The better you know the basics and train them until they are second nature, the better you will be able to use your aggression to your advantage and to your opponents disadvantage, otherwise you will basically be giving the opponent a freebie.

Man, wanting something desperately is great and having that ambition is utterly imperative, but, knowing how to go about it is even more important. All the will in the world will not help you if you try to go about things the way you are wanting to. Doing it that way can only get you so far, and, unfortunately, I can say with a small degree of certainty that it will not be nearly as far as you want it to be. All your favourite fighters trained hard with great trainers in good, solid gyms. The desire and talent is most definitely needed, but you have to have the backing in training to be able to use that desire and talent to your advantage because there are too many people with the same amount of desire and talent that have also been training with great trainers their whole lives and even not so great trainers for maybe a small part of their life. The thing they have though is experience and training. You need it more than anything right now. You may even realise after going to a gym and learning the fundamentals and sparring and fighting experienced guys that it's not at all what you thought it would turn out to be. I've honestly seen that happen a lot to many guys that think because they can beat up guys at parties or on the street that they can fight the same way and win against a solid boxer.

Aggression, anger and even strength can only take you so far and then when you hit a big brick wall and you cannot break it, until you take a couple of steps back and learn how to scale it, you will never get through it because you have to learn that you cannot go through everything. You'll find that you'll always come up against someone that is just that little bit stronger, that little bit more aggressive and that little bit harder punching and there will be nothing you can do. In hindsight you will realise that with a small bit of understanding or boxing training you could have easily defeated him using a different strategy, learning how to use their aggression against them etc etc.

Anyway, think it through, don't take this as anything negative because it's not, it's just some suggestions to try and help you get what you want a little bit easier and maybe go further, whether you think it is or not. Good luck whatever route you choose.