Recently I've had alot of success this season I became the Class A army individual champion & the team I box with became army team champions but now our seasons over for the army & I started training with a civvy coach, I dont like him or his style of coaching but I just deal with it cos he can match me up. Now he wants to match me up against a lad who's had 5 fights 5 K.O's (stoppages). My record is 8 fights won 7, 0 K.O's. I refused to take the fight cos I'm the army champion it's a fight where all the risk is on me & gain nothing if I win. So do you think I should just bin the coach or just fight the lad???
Ha,ha good idea, Amateurs do mean alot cos I've got 1 foot in the door of the Army Squad but for some reason my coach wants me to have a hard fight, there's plenty of good lads at my weight, another thing any lad who's had 5 stopped 5 is probably a ringer who's really had about 50 bouts, like I said before to much risk & nothin to gain
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
71kg light-middle. In a tournament situation it's different cos at the end of it, usually win or gain alot just from participating. Getting knocked out by some ringer on a local saturday boxing show for some sh!t trophy doesnt appeal to me, dont get me wrong I love boxing & I love competing just dont see a point in taking unevenly matched contests 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,
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
I lost my 4th bout partly my fault & mostly computer scoring I was up 3-1 going into the 3rd round thought I had it in the bag started showboating, dropping my hands going on the back foot, judges scored the fight 4-3 I was gutted but it taught me to fight every round like I was losing. That was a good lesson for me, I dont think I'd learn anythin from gettin stopped!
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)
