Who hit harder Marciano or Tyson?

me neither and some nights I felt like sugar ray and other nights I was sugar diabetes.
do you remember the rosin boxes ?? they were still being used I think when I started.
i know I had some old spalding leather boxing boots that my mate borrowed and kept slipping in he didn't borrow them again

 

it was going on when I boxed and still is.id been training for 8 months when I had my first fight and it was even match but I know of other clubs where the lads had been in the gym for 2 years.
if they've got plenty of sparring they've got it made.

 

boxing is a brutal sport, i played many contact sports and excelled, i didn't excel at boxing. I loved it doing it for a few years, however, the head shots and jaw shots i took in those few years were far worse than all the other sports i played combined. Just to compete in boxing is asking to get punched in the head :nut

In a way its why i have so much respect for all fighters, this glass jaw stuff is abused by posters that have no clue what they are talking about, i have a glass jaw, i know what one is :deal

 

yeah that's true, some clubs are really honourable at matching up their guys with other gyms, however, not all of them, lol

 

I remember sparring with a lad years ago who was terrified.my trainer said to him "look, everybody gets hit.i got hit, he (me) gets hit, even Ali gets hit"
the lad didn't come again.
i don't know what the ratio is of lads coming into the gym and actually competing but it isn't high.
I get a bit frustrated coaching kids only to find they don't want to fight:think

 

it doesn't look good when kids are over matched and 99% of clubs are honest.have you seen the skills bouts they have these days ?? they're great for introducing boxing to kids.

 

Yes I do ,and the old names Everlast ,Umbro,Champion.

 

yes most kids want to learn how to throw punches but don't want to get hit back,,,

you cant learn until you get hit, lol, well you can learn to throw punches but i mean you cant learn to box until you start sparring and getting hit.

i remember my first sparring session well, probably a story that all boxers can relate to, after 3 minutes my legs were so cramped from being overly stressed in the ring with a live opponent for the first time that i felt completely exhausted to the point that i felt i couldn't go on without a break, lol,,, learning to be relaxed in the ring takes a lot of time, focus and work. I wasn't very good at it

 

:goodI had umbro trunks and gola boots, the same as minter and stracey.
do you remember ampro and bsp (burnham st. peter) gloves ??

and the red and blue sashes which the amateurs don't have now ??

 

I only ever sparred! I had a hard punch and a good chin, but **** stamina and leaky defence; I would probably look like Doug DeWitt if I had made a career out of it!

 

Tony Zale said he hadn't encountered many glass jaws , just glass hearts. If you watch him out on his feet against Cerdan , struggling by sheer will power, to keep erect , you can see the very essence of heart being displayed. A body shot I took is the punch I remember most, it turned my legs to spaghetti!

 

He was tough guy! A bit like that little Mexican Zaragoza in that he didn't have to worry overmuch about spoiling his looks!

 

Exactly. It takes rocks the size of Gibraltar to even step in a ring and go mano a mano with someone else, no matter what level. I have the utmost respect for anyone who has done it.

 

yes i remember taking a liver shot and what i recall most was how fast i took a knee when the pain set in, i was down so fast i recall thinking my body cheated me because it didn't give me time to try to resist going down, lol, the shot of pain made my body contort into the fetal position before i even had time to think it over :!:

yeah so lots of respect for guys like Zale etc who learn how to keep focused in a time such as that :good

 

I think the best memory I have of boxing is getting hit in the guts but gesturing my opponent to come in.when he didn't Id recovered and went on to win.
twice in sparring I got hit by hooks to the ribs and my triner had to call time:verysad