My 1st fight disaster

[KillaMANE704]

My coach asked me if i wanted 2 fight in jan 2010 for march golden gloves fights...im like hell yea..but leading up 2 the fight all we doing at da gym is hitting da bag, no mitts, no medicine ball, no drills. Sparred like 2x. So i stop kumin and trained myself. B4 the fight the wasnt nervous at all, even though my training was so off...I fought this tall southpaw ( im orthodox) i pressured him tried 2 get in sum right hands, but he basically let me miss and then we he saw me gassed he came in with body punches corned me into the ropes...ref waved it off...After the fight i realized how bad my skills were...had no balance no footwork no technique, didnt know how 2 fight a southpaw etc. But evebody showed me respect for fighting with lack of real training...Now that ive been around boxing more since then..i look back, and i feel ****** for doing it.cuz i cuda gat hurt real bad..but at da time i aint giva ****.

bravery or ******ity?

[KillaMANE704]

I havent fought since due to shoulder injuries..but i plan on fighting this year and the golden gloves 2014....

I train harder than everybody at my gym, and take **** very serious. im dare from 9am to 12pm then 4pm to 8pm. I live n da middle of da hood, but iont **** with nobody nomo, drugs, hoes, all dat...Basically i aint indulging in **** till i make up for that lost.

[Kid Achilles]

Best of luck. Work with the best coach you can find and he should help you develop as a fighter.

[RiC-DiC]

I havent fought since due to shoulder injuries..but i plan on fighting this year and the golden gloves 2014....

I train harder than everybody at my gym, and take **** very serious. im dare from 9am to 12pm then 4pm to 8pm. I live n da middle of da hood, but iont **** with nobody nomo, drugs, hoes, all dat...Basically i aint indulging in **** till i make up for that lost.

good luck bro, sounds like you've reformed your ****!

HARD WORK
DEDICATION

[jaded]

Sounds like your boxing skills need as much work as your writing skills.

[KidDinamita]

Once I fought for the Nationals and happened the same for myself, we only were doing physical training and the normal bag work. My coach would tell me to spar after training (which is after 8:00pm and is time to rest and go home and spend some time with the family). I also had a shoulder injury going into the fight, but f**k it.

Although I lost a very close decision, my overall skills were great and even my stamina, I was still not happy.

If you don't train good don't fight at all. If my coach is not letting me spar, I'll tell him to f**k off "I'm not fighting".

[Pony Boy]

I've seen this happen quite a lot. Coaches will be letting their fighters basically train themselves by hitting the bags. Then two or three weeks before a show or tournament they start trying to work the mitts and get a couple sparring sessions. Totally setting up the fighters for failure. Sometimes I even think that they work things out with other coaches by supplying punching dummies so others could benefit. My advise is find a coach who is willing to work with you 2 or 3 times a week and go watch more fights and study.

[Rockin']

You had balls, you stepped up and saw exactly what it's about. The amateurs are about learning and I'm sure that you learned about some things with your '1st fight disaster'. One loss is nothing, we all lose some duing the learing process.

It can be very dangerous doing what you did with next to no real preperation though. Just be glad that the amateur officials are trained and 'programed' to stop the train wrecks before they happen. In amateur boxing the referees are very cautious and will try to stop a bout like that before anybody gets hurt.

The validity of your coach comes in to question for just throwing you in like that when you were so obviously unprepared.

Keep on keepin' on my man. Like I said, loses are just part of the learning curve. If you learned from your experience and weren't really hurt than look at the bout in terms of you gained something that can't just be given to a nooby boxer, that being the experience............... Rockin'

[T.Horton]

[Hyper Knuckles]

That stinks