Questioning whether or not to continue boxing...

[xRedx]

also make sure your opponent and yourself are wearing thick gloves, at least 18oz or even 20oz for conditioning and making it harder for you and your opponent to hit each other because of the bigger surface areas making it easy to guard.

[bald_head_slick]

Originally Posted by Spooner21

I just got laser surgery done on a torn retina yesterday, and I was in emerge for a pretty bad concussion back in november. But the thing is, Ive only been boxing since september, about 6 months, and I havent even had my first fight yet, these are just training injuries. A brain injury and an eye injury, in 6 months of boxing. I was supposed to have my first fight this upcoming friday, but now obviously ive pulled out. I have coaches and training partners tell me all the time how naturally talented I am, and how far I could take the sport. Im handling very seasoned amateur fighters and professionals in sparring and have progressed extremely fast for a beginner, Id hate to have to give up so soon. What do you guys think? Where should I draw the line? I would hate to have to give up so soon without even seeing how well I could do in this sport.

WTF?

That is your problem! You are doing too much too soon! No sparring with a guy with 6 month's experience should land him in the ER unless there was a freak accident. The seasoned guys and pros are chewing you up. The coach is letting them. I don't even know is 6 months is enough time to build your body up enough to even apply the principals of Boxing to be able to protect yourself with seasoned fighters. Your coaches are full of it.

Slow down. Train yourself up.

[dreamchamp]

Honestly then id quit. No matter how badly i want it if it means constant injuries **** the gym and **** boxing

[Bogotazo]

New gym, without question.

[Matt Ldn]

Handling professionals as a 6month novice?

[Spooner21]

Originally Posted by Matt Ldn

Handling professionals as a 6month novice?

ive only sparred with 2 pro boxers, one of them took it pretty easy, and some pro mma fighters. as well as amateurs with about 50-60 fights under their belts. i trained for a while by myself before coming to this gym, so i had decent hands, i wasnt a complete beginner. but i do pretty good with them, besides the fact im coming out of training brain dead and half blind some days lol

[Spooner21]

Originally Posted by FactsOfLife

hope you totally stopped sparring by now

yeah man i have, gunna be a while with a torn retina.

[4eyes]

Originally Posted by Spooner21

i do boxing at an mma gym, there are no boxing gyms here but they have an amateur boxing program. i spar literally every day i am in the gym,so about 3 or 4 days a week, and its rarely ever light. we arent forced to wear headgear, and yes, i spar exhausted quite frequently and when i do my head gets used as a speedbag and i just try to survive. theyll usually put a fresh guy in every round when i was getting close to a fight, or if they really wanna turn it up a notch a fresh guy every 30-60 seconds. unfortunately i have no access to any other gyms because i am here for school for 2 years, i do get along really well with my coaches tho, just question the training techniques...

Its not you its your gym brother, you should not be sparring like this, get the **** out of there in a hurry ...you don't have to give up IMO that's just silly, you just need a better place to train even if it means training on your own until something else comes up

[brown bomber]

Originally Posted by Matt Ldn

Handling professionals as a 6month novice?

Lol