If you've ever boxed 'n been knocked down or out...

Numb....ringing in your ear and disoriented.

 

The worst I've ever been hurt was by a body shot, and it was kind of nonsense.

Just sparring, the southpaw guy was maybe one inch taller but about 170, and I thought it was a pretty friendly sparring match because of the weight discrepancy of about 40 pounds.

I actually had the face cage on so I felt pretty good taking his shots and I felt like it was going well, but he was pretty strong. The bell clearly clearly rang and I was so relieved to get out of the round and to have taken his shots so well so I stood up and relaxed. He must have been more frustrated by my speed than I thought, because he caught me with a straight left hard to the pit of my stomach with my hands down standing straight up, a right uppercut to my throat, and a left hook to my kidney when I was completely relaxed, as hard as he could. My whole body just seized up and I went to my knees, I haven't ever felt like I was going to be knocked out cold but then I would have been counted out for sure, it took me like 35 seconds to get up.

My friend sparred him for the next round, and then I took one more with him after that and just boxed off the back foot and stayed away, and then never sparred that guy again. What a jerk off.

I have been stopped in real amatuer matches because I bleed a lot from the nose, but i usually just look beat up and am not really really hurt. This guy hurt me so much because I was relaxed and he was strong.

 

That was only a month ago so I haven't been back in since. I will be next month or the month after, either in a cage fight or a boxing match. One thing it does make you appriciate is profesional fighters though. I don't like hearing them called 'bums' or 'china chins' since it takes a lot to do it. I've been sparring since and I was getting the better of this guy who was beating me a few months ago so I'm getting better myself. I won't quit until I get a win.

 

i got sucker punched once, from the side. Next thing I knew I was sat up on the floor, didnt feel much pain from the punch, but my knee buckled as i fell down, couldnt walk on it for days and it hurt for weeks after.

 

Been dropped twice by a left hook to the body.

On both occasions I was doing very well, it was sparring but I was in against bigger guys and I was really holding my own.

First occasion was against my big Brother, he slipped my straight right and landed a beautiful left to the body. We were kinda taking it easy but it was the perfection of the punch that matter, cut right through me.

The second time I was in against someone bigger than in me in height, weight, reach etc. So I was content to move off the back foot and just jab my way around staying out of trouble. I was about 140 and to be honest he was about 175, huge by comparison, so I was in a negative mind frame as I was pissed at my coach for putting me in with him.

Long story short, we'd done 4-5 rounds, and that was at the end of a workout for me so I was exhausted and hung about on the ropes too long. This guy drilled a massive right hand down the middle, which I was too tired to slip, so FOOLISHLY I brought both my hands up to block the shot. Which in turn revealed a tasty set of ribs ready for a hard left hook. BAM!

On both occasions I remember my body just going limp. It's hard to describe the pain, it's like, it doesn't really hurt, but the body abandons itself because it knows it was hard and damaging. Like a good head shot, it doesn't hurt, your head and vision just shakes around a lot, like a buzz all around, and that's how you know it 'hurt', although it's not a pain per se. It's not a throbbing pain, not a sharp pain, nothing like that, just a confusion that scares you.

Well that's how these body shots were, suddenly my fighting instinct abandoned me, I hit the dirt. That's when it became hard to breathe and when the pain set in. And you know what they say, 'fatigue makes cowards of me', when I was on the dirt I realised just how exhausted I was and packed the sparring in the night.

 

I think Archie Moore put it best. It like "the street of dream." Not a pleasant sensation.

 

I took a knee from a bodyshot before. I blocked a left hook to the head, but a follow up left hook to the body caught me right below my right elbow right on the rib cage. It took a second or two to kick in, but when it did, I couldn't feel my legs, it felt like my whole body went numb and I just couldn't breath.

Another time, I got hit after the bell when I hand my hands down, right on the point of the chin. Blacked out for a second, and then everything looked smaller and blurrier and like it was in slow motion.

 

I've fought 35 amature fights and been knocked down 3 times. Once in my first fight was a right hand that hit me perfect. The guy I was fighting stepped to the side and unloaded while I was trying to figure out how to move my feet. The shot flung my head to the side and I feel like a sack. I remember thinking "well at least now I don't have to figure out how to move my feet" I did get up and finish the fight though. Lost my first match....That stung for a bit.

The second time was me being an idiot. After the first match I won 16 or 17 in a row, so I was feeling good about myself. I was throwing combo's well and this guy could not touch me. So I dropped my hands to be all "Look and me, I'm Ali" and got dropped by a left hook-right uppercut. That one was hard. My head flung first to my left and then straight up. I stayed on my feet but I wobbled something fierce, so when he stepped forward I took a knee. I DID come back and win but I never dropped my hands like that ever again.

Third was in the finals of a provincial tourny (I'm Canadian). That fight was awesome. The guy I was fighting was all out, kill or be killed, so I figured why not stand and trade with him (Idiot). He nailed me with a left hook to the body while we were trading and I felt all the strength in my body go out. I knew the round was over so I got up before 10, and knocked him down twice the rest of the fight. But if that happened at the begining of the round I would have stayed down. (Funny story, the guy from this fight went to the hospital and apparantly had an anurism)

My Amature career In total: 35 matches, 32 wins, one provincial title, and 3 knockdowns (all from me being stupid)