Confidence as a fighter.

Well, my first fight was a loss by a single point to another guy on his debut. Second fight was against someone who had been boxing 4 years to my one year (lost by 4 points), 3rd fight was against a guy with 9 fights who was four years older, 4th fight was against someone who was 3-3 I think, but I was dumb and drained myself 3kg over 2 days and lost by two points. My last fight was a split decision loss to someone who is now 4-2.

It's not that I've been humiliated any time. I've accepted my losses really and come on improving. I'm fighting next January in a competition against guys who have roughly 15 fights I think, that will be very tough, but I enjoy getting good experience really.

 

Yea man soak up all the experience u can, sounds like u just caught up on the short end of the stick.. keep at it

 

Nice, speak to your trainer, if your serious bout this then make some sacrifices and keep it moving . If not stay where your at and make the best out of it u know

 

Keep your head up it sounds like your losses were all competetive,and against more experienced opponents, when you break through with a win I'm sure they'll be coming one after the other.
I know a real good amateur fighter who represents he's country internationally
but lost he's first 7 amateur fights! Stick it out you will turn things around.:good

 

Freddie Pendleton amateur record was 1-5 before he turned pro and lost his pro debut fight against a 0-1 boxer.

Went on to TKOing Roger Mayweather and giving hell to Pernell Whitaker.. Heart takes you places

 

Cheers for the comments guys, I work out something new from eveyr single fight, I'll hopefully get the wins in January.

 

Try to video tape a sparring session and/or amateur bout and review it. post on here and we can try and help too.

Good Luck homeboy

 

Kronk is a hell of a gym. Your confidence will be high, that is for sure.

 

Hell maybe its because after a few fights you feel like you're not as good as you orginally thought you were. Even if you are winning fight after fight after fight.

Everyone walks into a boxing gym cocky as ****. Thats probably part of why some of us chose to become boxers. Nothing wrong with a little humility my man.

 

you only need one day of hard sparring a week. i would make the trip every week.

 

I remember Kallie Knotzee (South African heavyweight in the 70's) lost his first 13 amateur fights in a row. And he came to be a good solid contender.

 

I kind of know what you mean. I've never fought amatuer, but it seems like the more I know the less confidence I am sometimes.
Let me ask you this though....Since you are 5-0 now, and nobody understands why you'd possibly have less confidence...Are you more afraid to lose now??? Somebody like myself actually has more confidence in getting hit (knowing I can take a punch), or even losing sometimes in certain things (after I lost I have more motivation to win, and the pressures of always winning goes away).
That'd be my personal guess. Plus, if you aren't getting enough sparring, and going in there just seeing what'll happen that isn't good either for your confidence. You should definitely think long, and hard about what exactly is making you less confident and fix it.
Like I originally said though sometimes the more you know, the less confident you are. I, for instance was training about 5 days a week, and even though I don't fight amatuers I just dwell on boxing/ fighting. Whatever you do that takes up a lot of your time, your going to think about right? I was thinking about ALL THE TIME, and actually felt a heck of a lot better cutting it to 3 days.
Maybe those things don't effect you, but giving you ideas of what it possibly is.