Agreed. It's good for the credibility of the Training section, and as the guy who moderates it this pleases me. :good
3-33 thats amazing..... Khan was 4-5..... As a junior I lost 4 in a row at one point.... The winning formula takes time to be found.
He went 0-20 and then went 270-6 http://www.dbe1.com/athletes/dom_guinn.php Guinn began boxing at age nine after he found himself doling out more grief to the school bully on the school bus than vice versa. His boxing skills developed late, to say the least. He lost his first 20 or so amateur bouts as a 9-year old. Guinn began winning by the age of 12 and lost in the quarterfinals in the Michigan Junior Olympic Tournament at 139 pounds. Fighting in the 147-pound class at 15, Guinn lost out in the finals. Guinn won the 19-and-under Junior World title in 1993. He is also looking to put one final nail in the coffin of his past, having done prison time beginning in 1996, when he served 10 months on a five-year prison sentence for probation violation. A former gang member, Guinn used his time behind bars to do some serious thinking. Guinn got out of prison on October 30, 1996. Guinn won the National Golden Gloves in 1997 and 1999. In 1998, Guinn won the U.S. National Championships and won a Bronze Medal at the Goodwill Games in New York City. His amateur record was 290-26.
I was 8-8 as a junior, 19-4 as a senior and 9-6-1 as a pro. As an am won area NABC, junior ABA, Novice and Senior ABA championships- could have done a lot better in hindsight- as a pro I fought for the British Masters title twice and the Irish title. More to come hopefully. I look back at the ams fondly but I treat senior and jnr different as I was with a poor club and had little concept of the realities of the sport. As a pro I was unbeaten in my first 6 and was rated ninth in the UK at super feather. I never once entered the ring 100%, so did quite well. Hopefully will do better when I come back in March. If not too much time has passed. :good
If you dont mind can you shed some light on your novice experiences and the how the competition was at senior level?
my mate was like 5-4 as a junior and like you was at a poor club and didn't have a clue. he then went 2-0 as a senior and looked promising. the juniors can be another sport. i'm not a fan of guys boxing before they are 13. too young, too under developed. they look brillant on the pads and start windmilling when they step in the ring. don't like seeing 9 year olds with bloody noses. they are little warriors but i seen too many cry. it's even harder as a junior to have a 0.500 record. at that stage, your record almost has no correlation to your talent or potential.
1-2-1- 1dq couple were mauy thai fights. Very hard to beat home fighters even when you knock them down 3 times in the second round and only get awarded a draw! The dq was thai also, got stopped with 3 secs to go of the first round becuase the ref told me i was ducking my head too low. I could not get used to the upright muay-thai style and constantly fought evedryone in the boxing stance. This actually served me pretty good as it confused people but being political bollocks they dont like that sort of ****.
