I'm fighting in the 2010 NJ Golden Gloves

[JoHnNyBoXeR]

I always said I wanted to do it and always had an excuse why not. This time I'm for real. I have a little weight to take off and training for a tournament would give me great incentive to get back in shape and to maintain my overall health.

I'm training at the Bergen County PAL with Frank Toledo Sr., father/trainer of former featherweight champion Frank Toledo Jr. Shaun George and lightweight prospect Danny McDermott are gonna help me get some things down as well once I start sparring in a couple of weeks.

I'm gonna fight probably at 152 but if I can get there and still take off some weight in a healthy way, I'll go to 141. Pretty much I just need to get in shape, that's the biggest part. I did a short 2 mile run today and did some preliminary training to get my overall fitness back together. I'm going to start sparring in about two weeks or so.

yo im in the NYC metros right now for 152 Novice... im doin the golden gloves in january.. maybe we'll come thru to bergen PAL and spar .. ive been there twice already

[DavidS]

Good Luck.

[Mr. Ryan]

I had my first sparring session yesterday in about ten months, did four rounds with a muay thai fighter that does boxing on the side. It was light work, I didn't put my punches together really, just worked on defense and getting counter-punching angles.

My timing was a little off, I was short with my counters at times because my feet were in the defensive L position just trying to make him miss. I threw maybe one hard shot in the second, I threw three hard jabs and when he covered up I slipped to the left and hit him with a flush hook. After that I just went defensive.

I'm hoping to get more sparring next week.

[supRa]

record that **** yo....

[Mr. Ryan]

record that **** yo....

I'm going to record the next one for sure lol, I watched it on the gym surveillance cameras and was like wow, I look like James Toney with as lazy as I was.

I'm going to pick up my cardio and start pushing myself against bigger opponents that I can hit so I don't remain complacent as much.

The most important thing is for me to start throwing more hard jabs. When I throw the soft jab I don't really get as many openings.

[Mr. Ryan]

Just had a refresher course on what it's like to get hit hard again lol. I did three rounds today with an open class 145 pounder that has a fight on Friday. It was my first serious session in a long time so I was a little tight but by the second round I was popping my jab in his face with regularity. It was actually enough to keep him off of me but I just couldn't keep it up consistently cuz I'm not in shape yet.

I was surprised how easy I could hit him with my right hand and jab and pretty much every time I tried to counter him. I think if I'm in shape I'm the better fighter.

He was putting a lot of pressure on me and I just saw that my only shot was to flurry off the ropes. I'd beat him with the first punch but then he'd come back and I just couldn't keep up with the pace. My best moment was in the second when he came in on me in the ropes and I just opened up a big flurry of 8-9 punches and moved.

At the end of the second he hit me after the bell because I was holding so I retaliated by cracking him with a right in the back of the head when he turned away. Both corners came in but I knew I couldn't let him just hit me like that.

The third round was all him, I still caught him with everything I threw but I was just moving on my heels trying to buy time. Took a lot of shots on the ropes but blocked a lot too.

My trainer, who had never seen me spar before, said he was impressed because I could fight but just wasn't in any kind of shape. I spar tomorrow in the Four Corners of Death, which is one guy to a corner trying to knock each other's heads off. Awesome.

[Mr. Ryan]

Man, another day of hard sparring! We did the Four Corners of Death, with four guys, one in each corner, taking turns beating each other up. I started out sparring a huge 178 pound open class guy and started fast, throwing my jab and getting in close and doubling up hooks up top and to the body. He caught me with a left hook when I dropped my right glove and I was like "WOO!!" lol, that was hard.

Then I got a break and when I went back in I sparred the guy from yesterday and I gave him the business this time. He was more aggressive but I pretty much just circled to my left and popped him with the jab whenever he tried to come in close. I countered him pretty easily since I figured him out already.

I then went in with this tall rangy guy who was the weirdest of them all. He gave everyone problems with how awkward his style was, he would kinda box and throw softer punches then when you stepped in to counter he'd counter you hard. I slipped his jab and cracked him with a right and when he went to the ropes I forced him to his left and hit the right side of his body so hard with a hook you could hear it through the gym. He went down and then I went right back in with the big guy. By this time I was dead tired and he whooped the crap out of me lol.

I only had energy to jump in with a jab to the body every so often and caught him with a few straight rights but whenever I stopped he would just pound me.

I know I have to just get into shape. All of these guys are in great shape and have a lot of fights and I can hang with them, I just need the conditioning.

[Mr. Ryan]

Peep the official Reyes gloves and Pacquiao trunks. I'm all f---ed up here lol

[supRa]

lol damn... how heavy r u right now?
160?

[Boxer1590]

Just keep training hard man, good stuff.

Although I would definitely recommend fighting at LEAST once before the gloves.