I got beat up for the 1st time today.

That is how you learn, and you seem to have a good attitude about the experience. You need perspective on the situation: You have been training for 6 months, some guys have been doing it for years.
Pressure can be exhausting, especially if you don't know how to deal with it and, 6 months in, you wouldn't know that yet. The peanut gallery is going to tell you to move and jab but I would suggest to you that, if the other guy knows how to press, doing so is next to impossible. You have to learn how to throw short punches and fight inside, so that you can hit him hard on the way in and once he gets inside. That makes him think as he comes in and then you can start to land a jab.
You don't want to fall into the trap of just moving right away- I don't know if I can type it but I could show you how little I have to move to make you move a lot, and then, with a step or two, cut the ring and trap you. But, if you can draw the pressure fighter into moving, then you can use small steps that allow you to punch but keep him turning , if that makes sense.
You want to really break down how you throw your punches. You want your hooks and uppercuts, in particular, to start from the floor, when you shift your weight. You want to get into the practice of hitting the target with your hips, your arms just carrying the punch, and you want to get away from the practice of starting your punches at the shoulders. Punching from the floor up is how you throw very short, hard, damaging punches in close.

 

I'm my self outside southpaw, I had once similiar experience to yours if you face preassure fighters running and jab alone isnt enough you will tire and jabs alone wont do ****. You must learn how to check hook in cuban/russian style plus you need to let him know you can hit hard counter when he comes so he respects you more, train pull counter also against southpaws use lead right straight with left hook and right straght or jab right hook to face if he keeps hands low

 

Not to be a dick, but what did you expect to happen? You've been training for 6 months and your coach told you this guy is far more experienced than you. Did you expect to outbox this guy or what?

Take your time and LEARN instead of getting frustrated. You'll get beat up a lot more times if you stick with it.

Also, are you recording your sparring? If not, ask permission and record your sessions, you'll be able to pick out your mistakes easier.

 

First time with a southpaw is always confusing.

Hell, I am a southpaw and first time I fought one I freaked a little bit. No way to learn it until you do it.

 

Some of the most important sparring sessions for development you'll be looking back with a smile on your face when you've achieved what you wanted, keep at it

 

hit the one in the middle

 

nah all jokes aside don't worry mate. Everyone has been schooled in sparring. Mayweather has. World champions do. It will make you better. Also what if you fight someone who is 50 percent worse than the guy you sparred? it will be **** all to you. The beating you took, will make your harder, wiser.

Might prep you for a thug in the street one day. You never know. And because you absorbed all that pressure, the next mofo will be your cannon fodder.

Live and learn dude.

 

True after i got demolished for entire 3 rounds it was the most progress i made afterwards

 

At that point you could do nothing. Best you can take out of it is courage and determination to learn every last drop of knowledge from every possible source, and apply it.

The experienced fighter coming out at you like Mike Tyson is silly. You learn nothing, and he learns nothing, because you cannot provide him a quality force of opposition at that pace and under those circumstances. Hence why trusted sparring partners are gold.

 

It's never like you did nothing if you hang there for whole sparring session

 

you sparred since?

hows it going?