How To Know Your Ready?

[Pugnacious_Z]

this is a question for the guys who have boxed amateur or professional. how many rounds must you be able to spar for you to be ready to fight a 3x2 amateur fight?

[hotbox23]

i always just tried to double it.......like in sparing you dont go 100% but obviously in a fight you would, so just try to double it, in your case if you could go 6 rounds in sparring your probly ready...

[Pugnacious_Z]

oh k, thanx for dat. in my gym we go 3min rounds with 30sec rest compare to amateurs 2mins a rounds and 1 minute break so dat might help aswell

[Kayo]

oh k, thanx for dat. in my gym we go 3min rounds with 30sec rest compare to amateurs 2mins a rounds and 1 minute break so dat might help aswell

that'l help build up your recovery rate

[zip]

The more the better.
In a fight, especially if it's your first one, you will be nervous so you burn yourself out faster. But at the same time, unless you are like *****, you sometimes can keep going at 100% for a bit longer in a fight.
Just train hard and talk to your coach.

[MickyHatton]

The more the better.
In a fight, especially if it's your first one, you will be nervous so you burn yourself out faster. But at the same time, unless you are like *****, you sometimes can keep going at 100% for a bit longer in a fight.
Just train hard and talk to your coach.

Good advice!

You know when you are ready when you can spar comfortably at around 80% for around 6 rounds, remember that you WILL get tired in there but so will your opponent, gain the centre of the ring and make him take your jabs constantly and he will drain quicker!

[rsl]

this is a question for the guys who have boxed amateur or professional. how many rounds must you be able to spar for you to be ready to fight a 3x2 amateur fight?

Good question and a tough one, I think it falls on you how you feel it's hard to be objective towards yourself. I remember the 1st time I was begging my coach to let me spar I think I was 3months into it. My coach told me I wasn't ready, but I just kept pressin' him so he finally let me at it, since it was just me and my cousin(who happened to be the stud of the gym)who was in the gym on that lazy Sunday. So here's how it went down, since I have a little bit of tenacity in me I did what all novices do,which was rush in and I ate rounhouse kicks and sidekicks right after the other, my cousin was being nice though he could've easily gone to the head, but he went light to the top. Yeah I got ripped into. It was a brutal learning experience. Again it's one thing to experience a single sparring session it's another story to commit to the sport on a competition level. Only one way to find out is to step in the ring and do it, see if it's something you'd enjoy doing, even if things aren't going your way.

[Pugnacious_Z]

im askin dis coz im gona fight in early february, 6-7 weeks till fight time, dont wanan puff out on first fight

[rsl]

im askin dis coz im gona fight in early february, 6-7 weeks till fight time, dont wanan puff out on first fight

I think your going in ill- prepared if you've never ever sparred before and obviously I don't know where your "game" is at... Why not give it about 6 or 1 year of solid training and then compete. Don't just join a tournament for the hell of it, join w/ winning everything in mind. No half-assin', be a trained killer not an aimless fighter.

[Pugnacious_Z]

who said i havnt sparred b4? i spar 1-3 times a week