I sparred for the first time today. I was nervous about it, I was doing ok my first sparring round until I got hit with a good shot in the nose, I kept on fighting but my trainer stopped it because blood was spewing down from my nose. So I had to stop, and get the bleeding to stop. It was my first good shot I took, I could feel it in my head a little, and I felt water stream down my eyes though I wasn't crying. After I got better, I went and sparred another guy and did ok with him, I took some shots but not near as bad as the first shot to my nose, and I was able to put pressure on him and trap him against walls(we don't have a ring) but everytime I'd do that we'd have to stop action to go to the center of the floor, I was able to land body and head shots but I got hit way too much and my defense has to improve. I sparred him another round and did pretty much the same thing, except when I got fatigued, I got my nose bleeding again and my trainer stopped it. Anyways, as long as my nose bleeds stop I'll be fine, this is my 2nd week of training and it's a good system, switching in and out with 4 or 5 guys or so for sparring. I was very tired after just a round of sparring, it takes a lot more stamina to do it than heavybag work or running. My trainer said I did good but I have a lot still to improve on before my first amateur fight. When I was sparring someone said I was getting too wild in there, and that could be one of the reasons I'm getting so tired in sparring. That and inexperience.
In my opinion you should be doing more defensive drills and less sparring at this stage, you should not bleed yet that's for when you know how to defend yourself. If you went wild then it's understandable your sparring partner went along, but your trainer should prevent that. For now I would focus on learning your trade. Defensive drills, offensive drills, perfecting your punching technique, footwork drills, things like that. Stamina and such will follow suit just you keep doing bag work, jump rope, etc. If you do spar take it lightly. Your habits like turning the head and closing your eyes need to be unlearned and that takes time. Slowly increase intensity if you feel secure enough to do so. The goal of boxing is not to take punches and bleed, so minimize that aspect as much as you can.
My first time in the gym (12 yr) I got my ass handed to me by a pro fighter. My guess was that he was having a bad day, but regardless I learned more through sparring him than anything else. Keep your head up and keep it going, but do not neglect your drills.
I did, I got to spar the very next day after all this happened and I was more relaxed in there, and I did spar with the guy that busted my nose up. I did better against him and I didn't take any huge shots this time around, I did get my nose busted up again toward the end of the round due to inexperience and fatigue but I wasn't hurt or bothered this time. I also sparred a beginner superheavyweight who's basically a swarmer who throws big shots like Sam Peter or Butterbean that night. He was able to land shots against me, a couple good ones in the beginning of the round, but they didn't phase me, I adjusted, and jabbed him to the body a lot and moved around, clinching when necessary and I hit him with a hard left hook late in the round that hurt him, he told me afterward I had real power, he's a good guy to spar with though because of style matchups. I'm going to double up my jab more and let it be the dominant factor when I spar this upcoming week. I'll try to solve the puzzle of the fighter I spar with that's busted me up, it's not a fast guy or a great boxer, he just has good ring knowledge and knows when to back up and cover up and is a good puncher, definitely good for experience though because I'm still working on defensive basics. he gets me with his right hand, which is an overhand right generally, and body work. I did back him up with jabs though the 2nd time we sparred, I just have to be more accurate with them.