Your first boxing match?

He's just as nervous. It's normal. Just get that first one out of the way. We could give you all the tips and advice in the world but 9 times out of 10 it will all fly out the window as soon as the bell rings.

One thing that I've found that helps the new guys in the gym is to have them spar with someone fairly experienced but have them imitate someone who is a newbie and just rush you and flail for two minutes. At least you'll know what's that's like because that's probably what will happen.

 

Nerves are normal and actually stimulates the Adrenal gland to release copius amounts of Adrenalin come fight night.

My only advice really is to be first to the punch!, remember to keep him on the end of a good jab. Oh and last but not least....dont forget to breath during the round.:hey

Best of luck and have a great fight.:bbb

 

is it his first fight too ??

 

my first boxing match i was pretty confident but i took an ass whoopin in terms of punishment but i threw tippy tappy punches but landed all of them

6 days later i had a rematch where i fought real good and probably won but i never got the desicion

 

As soon as that bell sounds, most of your nerves should go.

I know it's a bit weird saying this but if your too nervous before the fight, you may tire yourself out. Find a quite place before your fights and gather your thoughts, works for me anyway.

 

Ah yes, my first match, those were the days. I remember it as if it was last week.



Seriously, do not let him intimidate you, or think less of yourself for any reason. Have faith in your abilities and **** him up royally. In the weeks before my fight I often trained two times a day, sometimes more than 4 hours, and still thought he was doing more.

 

As Amy said most advice will fly out the window and nerves are normal too.

Ask yourself this...............Are you training hard six times a week to take part or to win ?

I think you know this answer :good

Walk out there proud and you will walk back proud,the training will take care of the middle part :bbb

 

There's some good responses above.

In all sports it's important to try and stay relaxed (as best you can) before the match. You can't score a point til the bout starts, so don't play it out again and again in your mind or you just won't be able to sleep & relax in the lead-up.

 

I find that playing out what im going to do in my mind works for me. I picture myself jabbing real fast and hard and bouncing around all light. I picture myself smashing my opponents face. Then i go out and do it.

 

That kind of visualisation stuff is good and useful. So long as you are not doing it on the hour, every hour, including when you are trying to sleep.

 

Remember to jab a lot. It's easy to do and it's one thing that will look good to the judges.

 

well, jabs dont score points in the Ams but use it as it sets up punches and as long as you show your a good boxer it dosent matter the score. Nowadays the scoring is terrible i just go on who the crowd thinks won