Your a trainer and a 6'4" 215 Lbs 25 year old walks into your gym?

Unless his name is Ron Lyle Jr. I would not get my hopes up. Boxing technique is one of the hardest things to learn and it takes years to perfect it. It also has to become instinctual. One has to act and react without thinking about it. At 25 it is nearly impossible to become a world class boxer. Especially at heavyweight. The only reason Ron Lyle could do it was because he had no fear and he had the punch of a mule. Lyle was a rare exception. Had he started boxing at 19 instead of 29 he would have been legendary.

 

most f the posts on here are terrible, you dont just turn pro its not like clicking your fingers, get him training for about ten months and give him hard work out regimen, he is 25 and heavyweights are fighting late nowadays. after ten months depending on his progression and fitness and confidence etc get him a fight, if he des well then keep him fighting on a regular basis so that he woil stay focused, after a decent amount of fights then enter him in championships in amatuers where he will get experience from different styles. then maybe after 30ish or so fights turn him pro as log as he is ready.

what is the rush? turning pro staraight away will end up making him a joiurneyman

 

I would give him a few amateur fights and then make him a pro.. 25 is young for the higher weights... he can easily become a champion if he has heart and some smarts...

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No experience at age 25?? I wouldn't waste my time at all.

 

I'd put him in with a featherweight journeyman and laugh as he got his ass kicked because he doesn't know how to fight and is probably too old to learn

 

You'll be surprise how many guys start to box late on these weight classes.. from 168 and above is easy to get to the top quick you dont need that much experience as long as you're a quick learner and have some balls and athletic ability

lol a featherweight is not kicking a 6'4" 215 guys ass.. if you believe that you're delusional

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Fact,
It takes experience to become a great fighter. There are anomolies that you can name in the course of boxing history, but they are very rare. Boxing has a lot to do with size, strenth and speed, but experience and mental fortitude are more important in my opinion. I trained for years in Vegas, and I have seen specimens that were fairly young that make your 6'4 215 lb kid look like an anorexic midget. Do you guys not think that thousands of College Basketball and Football washouts finish school at 22, and don't stroll in to their local boxing gyms. NFL washouts do it as well. You just never hear about it because they can't even hack it in a sparring session. Fighting is not like most sports. If this guy can't see himself living boxing for the next 10 years then I would not push him to be a real fighter.

 

Yes he would, a 6'4 215lber with no fighting experience is getting murdered by a seasoned featherweight and I've seen it time and again

 

No you havent seen ****.. cause no trainer in their right mind will put their featherweight boxer to spar against a HW no matter how much difference there is in experience and if you're talking street fight that's even less likely cause on a street fight a big guy can swing wildly with no technique and if he catches the featherweight with one punch the fight is over so stop dreaming and making up stories

I'm not talking about becoming the ATG HW or a champion but a guy with good natural abilities can start at a late age and still fight at the highest levels of boxing.. and this is more common than people think especially in the higher weight classes.. in the lower weight classes is harder but it happens... look at wilfredo vazquez jr. he started boxing with no amateur experience and is now champion.. i know he got lucky and had some great management and as soon as he fights a real fighter he'll get beat but still he's champion.. nikolai value picked up boxing at 20, miguel jimenez a friend of mind started boxing at 21 and he went to the Olympics and fought in the pros for a few yrs...

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I would say the odds are at least 1000 to 1 against anyone starting that late.

 

You could at least have him take care of the thugs strong-arming you for damaging their mom's car.

 

just because youre in shape doesnt give you heart... youre born a fighter, not made into one.....

 

I have a real question... Something that happened to me a couple of months ago...


A kid walks into the rec center who is 6'1" 156 lbs. And is 13 years old. Most athletic kid in the school. He can dunk a basketball, but is shite on the court. He plays football, but really likes boxing a lot. Has never done a day of boxing, but has really quick reflexes, etc.


Is he work-with-able?