I tend to agree. If you want to make a career out of boxing you can't waste too much time in the amateurs. 100 fights will get you to see all manner of styles and boxers and anything more than that and you have diminishing returns. Don't waste the youth, use it!
100-150 is a very random take. 300-400 is ridiculously overblown. European boxers tend to have more amateur fights than Americans because they have more difficult path to get a professional path in boxing. Mike Tyson had about 50 amateur fights before turning into pro. Deontay Wilder even less. Tyson fury had even fewer amateur fights than Wilder.
Yeah. If you are not from U.K or at least Germany or Ireland then there yeah......................................... Mike was very diligent, hard working, naturally gifted and most likely even humble lad and Cus and his guys had saw also how hardworking he is and how diligent and naturally gifted Mike is. Mike just had fucekd up in 1988 th when stopped to improve and not rare thing that had some other things over boxing. Like Morrison and for sure exactly this the same. Without HIV ofc, looks that mike was clean and I don't think that he was juiced until 1988 th.
With a view to turning professional in your early 20's, I'd say the more amateur fights you have up to that point the better prepared you will be for a professional career. What's also important is to have mixed in top company. The benefit of going to an Olympics or World Amateur Championships is you get to face the best. You don't have to win those tournaments, but the deeper you go the better quality fighters you will face. I mean it's not essential for a successful professional career to have had many amateur fights or to have mixed in top company in those big tournaments, but it's a good head-start. The blokes who haven't done so are playing catch-up. And of course, losing a few in the amateurs while you're learning on the way up is no biggie. Start doing it as a professional & see where you end up.
Have a few fights at a good level of competition if you're in it for refining your skills for the pros. I'd say about 30 or so at national level or higher and you'll learn a lot of the appropriate skills and iron out your kinks. If you have the talent for it, you can make it to the Olympics if you impress well enough at national or continental tournaments. You could also enter something like the Strandja Memorial which would qualify you for the Olympics if you win it.
Ammy: you are learning and unless this is very high level championship or games, not worry about lost fight. I had different boxers: first was like going for stoppage only, next basic ammy style and third had used stuff like british& EE hybrid and was very good for me and disciplined. Then next. Like you are learning. You should not get damaged there, preferably.
Numbers dont matter. If youre around 19-20 years old and consistently beating/competing with guys at the top level in the amateurs its time to go pro. Being amateur is harder. You dont get to pick your opponent. Pros you pick who and when youre fighting.
At 25, 26 years of age you can switch to the pro game .You will have amateur experience and still have time to make career and make money.
The Strandja Memorial is a well established competition, if you win it that's a big deal because it's basically a world level competition. In fact many invitational amateur tournaments like that are very good for gaining valuable high level experience. I'll try my hand at them when I can.
Cool. How old you are? Do you have fights with adults under belt? If you are young youngster this today might be even good. This shitty covid f*************** almost all since march of 2020 th. Good luck.
Yeah, if Usyk, Povetkin, Savon had competed in this, it is good thing. Only difference now might be how this is/ will be evlaued by IOC. They not rarerly even changes calculation value of continetal championships and like this. Like for Games.
