Wtf is the minimum age to become a Thai prizefighter???

1) Canelo and MAB were too young. I think in Mexico they don't expressly forbid competition under 16 (although I've never heard of younger than 15, so that must be the hard limit as Canelo and MAB are both considered very much the exception and not the rule) - but rather in good-taste common practice 16 is the norm, especially the deeper into modern era you get. In most United States jurisdictions the blanket rule is 18, but some commissions have granted special licenses for 17 (ie José Benavidez applied for one, I believe, successfully petitioning the NSAC to let him start early due to his demonstrably prodigious amateur track record)

2) you were threatened with a ban for merely inquiring about my experience? When and in what thread was this? I can only imagine that would've been my fellow mods hyper-vigilantly getting my back as there was a poster here (and on the Lounge) that had some weird vendetta toward me for a while (I think for banning him for white supremacist hate speech or something) and was making ad hominem attacks, dredging up personal details about me etc. Maybe they assumed you were another of his alts...which, if so, I'm sorry you got caught in those crosshairs. Anyway, to make a long story medium length - shrunk down for decorum, because wall of text about myself, ew - yes, my relationship with boxing has been very staccato for my entire life, dating to when I was quite young (several years less old than Phoobadin is now, but always brought along in a very controlled and safe manner and never thrust unreadily into serious competition before even completing puberty) but have never stuck with it long enough in any one duration to gain any momentum. Life always has gotten in the way (until I became too old to join the national ranks of amateur novices per the USBA juniors cutoff, and then eventually the senior limit as well so that now my only remaining option for amateur competition would be the burnouts, white collar dabblers and reformed fatties of the Masters division at 35+) and has, to my embarassment, continued to in the intervening couple of years since I announced the reduction in my presence on here to finally make a serious run at it. Until thirteen months ago (August 1st, 2017 at 9:55pm EST, to be precise) I was a pack a day smoker of cigarettes until going cold-turkey and surrendering my last bastion of self-destructive behaviors masquerading as self-medication for quite severe depression and general anxiety (some moderate amount of which I came by innately, but exacerbated tenfold by life circumstances and stressors that led one clinician to say candidly and through unchecked tears "IMO most otherwise healthy and well-adjusted people without generic markers for anxiety or depression would have, in your position, gone from zero to sixty in no time flat and been driven to having sought an escapist release, in the form of either suicidal ideation or behaviors, and/or a crippling hard drug habit" - long story I won't get into here). My lungs have taken all 13 months to reach the feel of pre-smokin clarity, and yes I have been in various gyms since about New Year's and have only recently begun to have recaptured most of the wind required to defend oneself in the square. I'm ****ing old as hell now, though, and have lost a great deal of the handspeed that used to be my signature and make coaches' eyes light up like cartoon dollar signs in my youth. So...yeah. Doesn't help that I'm poor, have always been and likely will always be, and yet live in a city that despite its rich tapestry or pugilistic history no longer has any of the cheap, dingy, honest old-fashioned boxing gyms that you see in films like Rocky (though other metropolises like Philly & NYC do still, in relative abundance) - anyplace that exists now around here with so much as one heavy bag is either an MMA facility (since that is where the money is) or a more upscale "fitness club" that happens to have some "boxing" classes ..in neither case are there any good old-fashioned coaches who KSAB to be found (little did I realize the ones teaching me in childbood were even then a slowly dying breed). I can't afford $150/mo to belong to a gym where nobody including the staff takes boxing any more seriously than losing weight or bragging about being a "fighter" (despite never so much as sparring or having any intent to) on Instagram, and even if money were no object, no place that is locally accessible would be the right fit. So my options are to self-train on a dilapidated bag in the basement and try contacting old gym friends scattered far and wide in the hopes they still dabble and want to spar...or to give up the ghost.

 

Wow, when did you get hit with tard stick?

Poverty exists the world over. In not many places, though, does society deem it acceptable to push underdeveloped children into bloodsports.

That's such a blatant false equivalency, I can't help but respect you much less for having posted that, sadly.

 

And don't even get me started on peewee/high school American football.

edit: I'm not actually sure whether you were being flippant/sarcastic or not, as IDGAF about baseball and don't really know whether the mechanics there are problematic in terms of musculature development in adolescence)

 

Cool, well, we're officially done. And I'm not @CST80, I dont throw hissyfits over minor disagreements and throw around sentiments like "were not friends anymore!" lightly, only to kiss & make up the next day.

You just died on this hill, and lost me. Sucks, but okay then.

 

Even from 14 to 15 is a monumental leap, btw, all you stupid fucknut Thai (or even Mexican) boxing apologists...14 to 18 is a billion light-years.

 

Of course they do, and of course that's terrible. And am I tacitly endorsing any of that by saying fight promoters shouldn't be going after preteens to figuratively & literally bleed dry?

NO I'M FUCKING NOT. Jesus.

 

@Russell, you might have missed the department-wide memo while busy preening over your little YT channel that nobody cares about, but us Liberals™ aren't supposed to resort lazily to arguments from whataboutism. Not a good look.

"Thai kids starve in the street every day so you can't be upset about the predators in their country's boxing scene shoving them into combat before they're done growing! Out of touch first world white blah blah blah buzzwords! I'm EDGY and worldly and woke!" ...meh.