I started to train boxing recently and everyone tells me how Im so talented for a beginner. Is it too late to try to become pro at this age? Do you know any examples of the boxers that started this late?
It's not too late, you're still young. Go to the doctor and see a cardiologist. Make sure your heart function is good enough for lots of cardio (mine was not), because cardio is everything when it comes to fighting (besides knowing how to fight). Do lots of cardio and work on hand speed exercises. You want to get lean and mean. If you have 2 fighters of the same height and weight and one is 20% body fat and the other is 10%, the fighter with less body fat is usually going to be stronger. You don't want to get extremely ripped, though. Boxers sweat out a lot of water. If you are going to fight really long fights and go the distance, you won't be able to carry enough water through the fight and dehydration fatigue will set in during the last rounds. Learn to use your reach advantage to wear opponents down from the outside. Also learn to defend yourself from shorter inside fighters who are going to have to get in close to beat you. The uppercut punch is your biggest worry when fighting shorter fighters. Learn to block it. Look at fighters like Mohammed Ali. Not the strongest guy in his weight class but he did so well because he fought smart, except for his defense. He let himself get hit hard too many times. You don't want to let yourself take unnecessary damage. You might be able to take the hit at the moment and keep fighting, but it's those hits that add up in the long run and disable you. Learn good defense. Learn how to counterpunch. People are wide open to a punch when they are throwing a punch. There's also an old boxing trick where a fighter will throw a certain type of punch really weak, like 30%. It could be a right or left jab, cross, hook, uppercut, whatever. Just pick one. The opponent will start thinking they don't have to worry about that certain punch and leave themselves wide open to it. Then you throw that punch they are no longer afraid of at 100% instead of 30% and knock them out 🤜💥🤯😵💫😴🏆🤑 Last but maybe most important is your mind. You have to keep your mind in the fight. You can't give in to anger or fear. If you lose your cool, you lose the fight. You might take a big shot and get back up off the canvas and be scared or be really angry. That's when you get sloppy and make big mistakes from not thinking straight. I believe in you. You can do it.
And footwork! Footwork is a whole other enchilada. It's often overlooked by inexperienced fighters. Footwork is your foundation for power punches and can take away your opponents punching power when you move out of their range, etc.
And restraints! Restraints will keep me in a position of submission as I endure Your strikes with gratitude. And ball gags! With a ball gag in my mouth, I'll provide a target for Your jabs and hooks, ensuring that each punch lands with precision. Oh and handcuffs! Work on your skills handcuffing me to a bed.
There IS a list of boxers diagnosed with some brain damage. Tell me how many were woman? None 😂 Ofc there is a chance of injury but boxing is one of the safest combat sports. In jiu-jitsu or MMA almost every fighter had a broken hand or leg..
Female boxing is not as prevalent as male boxing both in time and number of boxers. However, females do not have a unique immunity that males do not. So, female boxers will get CTE too. There probably already are a few now. Indeed, this Australian study has already documented the first female professional athlete to have CTE; she died in her 20s.
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a female ex-professional Australian rules footballer Acta Neuropathol. 2023; 146(3): 547–549. Catherine M. Suter,1,2 Andrew J. Affleck,1 Alan J. Pearce,3 Reimar Junckerstorff,4 Maggie Lee,1 and Michael E. Bucklandcorresponding author1,2
... Contact sports in which head injuries occur commonly (and also where CTE is most frequently reported) are historically male dominated, and this likely underlies the strong male bias in CTE prevalence to date. However, the last two decades have seen a rise in popularity and participation in women’s contact sports, particularly among younger women aged 15–34 years [1]. Available evidence indicates that females are more susceptible to sports-related concussion than males, even when participation is controlled for [4]. At present, there have been only a handful of CTE cases reported in females [5], and none have derived from professional athletes. Here, we report the first case of CTE in a former professional female footballer. ...
You basically just proved my point... Only one case of profesional female athlete and She wasn't even a boxer... Why would i be afraid of that? Google how many people die in car accidents and you will never sit in a car again couse its milion times more dangerous than boxing
No, you don't understand the mathematics of it. Women in contact sports is a relatively knew thing and to diagnose CTE in you, you have to be dead. But the symptoms occur before death.
Look, the brain is not meant to be tossed about inside the skull and repeatedly doing so will cause dementia and/or personality changes so profound that you get depressed about it and commit suicide.
... and no amount of pumping iron can protect your brain from this.
It is never too late. It only depends on your goals. Box training is very good for cardio and it develops arm, shoulder, back and core muscles. If you want to compete, its different story and it depends on your learning skills
Every sport includes a chance of injury but its still better to do them for your health... And permanent injuries are rare in boxing. They are much more common in sports like skiing, snowboarding, racing horse riding and many more...
I know I’m super late, but it’s definitely not too late for you! There are plenty of boxers that started late. In terms of when they debuted professionally, Rocky Marciano (24), Anthony Joshua (24), Deontay Wilder (23), are just a few. If you want an example of a woman, look no further than Heather Hardy. She was 28 when she first started training, and 30 in her first pro bout back in 2012. She ended her career losing to Amanda Serrano back in 2023, and that’s when Hardy was 41. That’s absolutely wild, and shows how resilient Hardy was. Her record ended up being 22-3.
Anyway, I know this is a super old post, but I hope you decided to give it a shot, if you were really interested. Though, in either case, hopefully you’re ok with whatever you decided and however it played out!
@Viola_456 One thing for sure.. with those a** pics you already knock out the boys LOL😜 secondly, whatever you wanna do (in this case Boxing) if you're in good shape and you're 100% committed to it both body and mind you can do this like a champ!! good luck you got this 😉👍
You already have a fighting sport background and are athletic so I think it will work welll as far as becoming a pro goes. For regular people it won't help them become a pro but they can start and play matches at their own level of course.
It's never too late to start anything that you want to do in life. If you have that talent your age just gives you a little bit more wisdom and knowledge to use with that talent I say go for it
Boxers fight on the avg. 2 to 4 times a year. I've heard you need about 100 fights under your belt to be considered professional. And the beginning age is 5-20.
So knowing this you can create a baseline. If this were all boxers followed this path they wouldn't be considered professional till 29. And we know that's not true.
So suffice it to say you're in the upper echelon in age. But I think it'll depend how much natural talent you have.
You're still young. You have the energy and you seem to be really strong. Go for it. You can do anything in life if you have determination. I believe you will go far in anything you do.
Everything is a possibility! The best thing you can do is go for it! You have a good strong base so you're ahead of a lot of chicken leg boxers, so just the technique to master
I imagine that because you are a girl it is probably more common to not get interested in the sport later in life. Being a gym rat all your life will help as well.
Start doing cardio fighters don’t do treadmills they run in the street or park and start working on your reflexes and coordination and start sparring light with people that are not too advanced. So You don’t get discouraged and see how you do.
You are really not that old some people have started later you have plenty of time and you are very welcome. I would recommend get a few amateur fights under your belt so you can get some experience before turning pro
many successful people started at that age. Frank Mir UFC submission master started submissions at 19. Justin Gaethje UFC striker started striking at 20. This is not unusual.
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