How long does it take?

Being at your best takes months. In amateur boxing, it's common to get to a show and not know whether you'll be fighting or not. I've seen tons of fights get made on the night of the show, it's relatively common with people pulling out, getting sick, or not making it to the show.

In any sport you have a season. You'll never be at your best on any given day, but that doesn't mean anything. Baseball has a hundred and sixty-two games. Football players play every week. Hockey has like 80 games or something.

Pro boxers will fight every 3-4 months, because they train specifically for a certain opponent with a certain fight date in mind. They peak on the fight date. And we do criticize them for fighting so infrequently.

Amateur boxers fight much more frequently, sometimes every week for stretches. Sometimes 3 times in a weekend. Sometimes once a month. You aren't going to be at your best, but neither is your opponent. And if he is, then so what? Losing isn't a big deal in the amateurs, it's the fighting that counts. I don't know any amateur fighters who plan their fights months in advance. Weeks is usually the best you can get, unless it's a tournament that you know of far in advance.

So anyway, this anthonyjr guy's coach has the right idea. Fighting on a day's notice or an hour's notice is fine as long as you've been training AND have a general idea that you could be fighting anytime soon.

 

^^^ What that guy said.

I mean, maybe if you are a VERY SERIOUS amateur boxer then yeah. But no one in my gym even knows there record.

The fighting is all irrelevant, we're basically all just trying to prepare for the regional tournament in april. **** a record, we want a couple champs to come out of our gym.

 

:good

 

How did you do in the fight?