If you could be, would you be a Journeyman Boxer?

Ah the old "chuck the table in the air" when losing tactic.

 

When i was growing up you'd see Buckley, Booth etc who would ride punches and have the ability to mentor fighters through. Now we don't have that IMO. Deakin puts up brave efforts but when he meets the better end of fighters he's been beaten easily and fighters haven't learned a thing.

 

It's not something I'd want to be. Anybody that didn't know Boxing would take the **** out of you and call you a bum behind your back and in alot of cases, to your face.. They wouldn't respect you.

Ignorant people are the worst kind of people.

 

I would love to but i'm too late I think 29 .I only started watching boxing about 5 yrs ago cause my treadmill broke and I bought a bag .I loved it .The intensity .Then I remembered my great uncle and granda boxed .It turns out the gym I joined my great uncle founded .He died about 95 .He was a journeyman ( my dads full uncle ) .He would be roughly the same age as Sir Henry Cooper before he died .He's got boxing gloves on his grave .The best boxer at the amatuer nights used to get his memorial.Only reason I know he's a journeyman cause I found his boxrec ( true hardcore boxing fan today ) .If he was around today man I would be in a boxing gum 6 days a week man .His best opponent was Spike McCormack Irish .They talk about him in saviours the show with Darren Sutherland . R.I.P
http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=272193&cat=boxer

 

Yeah I think this is the key, when journeyman just cover up and run fighters just get easy points wins, learn nothing and the whole thing is a waste of time. I suppose it's better than knocking over a useless Latvian but not by much.

 

your not too late mate thats a bull**** excuse, if you want to find a way you will, if you want to find a excuse you will, lace em up and see where it takes you:good

 

Yeah.... there's a fine line between a journeyman and a bum.

Too many of them are becoming ''professional losers'' and not trying to win.

Tony Booth in his day was a more than capable operator who would turn a kid over if they took him lightly.

I'm not sure where the ''if they really tried they wouldn't get work'' bollocks comes from. Why would you put your kid in with a fighter with a 2-83-7 record?

At least a Peter McDonagh type can actually beat people, and those he doesn't beat get a run for their money.

 

peter macs a good boxer i learned a tough lesson that night:good

 

I could be wrong but I think that Buckley was actually in the Top 5 earners of British boxers one year.

 

That's quality. Every pound hard earned.

 

khan dus that for millions,jammy twat

im a touch like curtis in the regard that i don't like getting beat,i don't mind getting beat if i put up a good fight,but just legging it all night i couldent handle,and my mates would take the **** something rotten

 

I reckon if I went into it knowing I was going in to survive I'd work my hardest to be an inside spoiler. Just tuck little shots into the body and working with my free hand whilst tying my man up

They'd learn, I'd keep me dignity, but still get outworked and sometimes stopped against the classier and more talented fighters (and outmoved by the runners :yep) but I couldn't live with myself if I didn't try. I'd just work with my limitations.

And, knowing what I can and can't do, I know I'm very flatfooted. So I've learnt that upper body movement and guard/parrying is key for me, as when I try to employ lateral movement I'm ragged as **** and look like a drunk

I really respect the journeyman who will get in there week in, week out, probably giving up weight most of the time against someone that's better than you in most departments (hence why they're there) but, despite knowing what it would take I'll hold me hands up now and admit; I couldn't do it! :deal

 

Never, losing would annoy me too much.

 

Not all of us have a chin as proven as yours, Flea.

 

I'd like to say I'd do it based on how much I love boxing and how much I'd value an opportunity to get in the ring, but it would depend on the money. I have no idea how much your average journeyman's purse is per fight, and it would depend on my handling. I know journeyman are matched up with tough fighters regular on short notice, but if I felt that my handlers were putting me in straight away with knockout artists for little money, I'd tell them to **** off.