Nothing to gain but experience. Which is far more important because once you're on the Army team and in tournaments you don't have a choice and could be fighting someone with over 100 bouts when you still don't have 20. How are you going to handle that if you're bitching out of fighting someone who's only got 5 bouts?
Are you serious?! Spoken like a true puss. Losses mean jack in amatures. You aint no Floyd, nor are you a pro, there is NO point in protecting the "0". you will learn nothing. So if you wanna be the most overrated amature, cool. You wanna be good, fight! atsch
Err whats your record if you dont mind me asking? I got no intentions of turnin pro but I do wanna compete for a very long time in the amateurs,[/quote] 12-4 (4) stoppages I know fighting tough fighters suck first hand, but i learned ALOT more from those 4 losses than i did from those 12 wins by FAR
Lol those 4 stopages are not me being stopped. those are ko wins which isnt always easy as an amature, but i did get stopped once although i was perfectly fine, just got an 8 count than knocked down in my 5th fight, but i was WAY over matched and fighting up at 152 instead of 141. The guy had about 20 fights on me and just pretty much handled me. But where your at now, you'll wanna take the risks cuz eventually the only guys ur gonna fight are the ones that will mess you up, might as well learn how to fight em now instead of having ur spirit broke later
If you lost to a better fighter and he stopped you because you had defensive openings you've learned something from it. You can go back and fix those defensive lapses next time. It almost sounds like you want us to confirm your decision to not fight more than anything else. I saw a kid with 4 fights (he was 4-0 at the time) go up against someone with 150 fights just so he could get that 5th fight and be on the State Golden Gloves team. And it paid off big time for him, at Regional Golden Gloves he won his first fight; against someone far more experienced, and in the finals he lost a very close decision where he put a serious physical beating on his opponent who was definitely more experienced that him. Now he's in the Air Force and on the Air Force team, and he goes into fights confident because in his 5th fight he hung in there with someone who is now the US National Champion.
It seems you're fighting for something worth looking after so only go against the odds if it's worth it. (just to be argumentative)
As in a voice that told you what you wanted to hear. You haven't done **** to think you're in a position of nothing to gain by fighting another novice. You're a novice, he's a novice, it's just another bout to get experience.
Kolya is right tmsbry. You have to face them sometime. Watch somer Marvin Hagler, as a youth he faced anyone and always had supreme confidence because of that.