startin boxing at 19???

dublincitybhoy

alri i want 2 take up boxing after the leaving cert.By then i'll be 19. Its something i've always wanted 2 do.I'm not messing around i want to be competitve.. Am i kidding myself? Anyone got any advice? Cheers

Johnny Drama.

I played county football for about 10 years and trained 3/4 times aweek, since i have finished playing county at 28 i decided to do some boxing trainning in the local boxing club, its the best trainning i have ever done & the hardest but i love doing it and id recomend it to anyone weather your 14 or 44.

digme

dublincitybhoy wrote: »

alri i want 2 take up boxing after the leaving cert.By then i'll be 19. Its something i've always wanted 2 do.I'm not messing around i want to be competitve.. Am i kidding myself? Anyone got any advice? Cheers

Sergio Martinez took up boxing at 19,and he beat Paul Williams a few weeks back.

PrettyBoy

dublincitybhoy wrote: »

alri i want 2 take up boxing after the leaving cert.By then i'll be 19. Its something i've always wanted 2 do.I'm not messing around i want to be competitve.. Am i kidding myself? Anyone got any advice? Cheers

Yeah man, why not? If it's something you want to do then you may as well. I used to train when I was 17-18 (though I was never competitive) but I gave it up because I got lazy. I'm 21 now and I'm going to go back to it. It's brutally hard but like Johnny said, it's the best training I've ever done.

cppromotions

spent my whole boxing career in the USA when a person walked into the gym and stated they wanted to fight the response from my trainer was always OK! there was never a question of asking there age not like here in Ireland its just irish mentality it needs to change. There was one guy came into our gym in the states told my trainer he spent 10 years in prison and got into Boxing inside and his goal was when he got out to have atleast 1 pro fight this guy looked fit and about 42 or 43 years of age, he got himself in good shape got himself a fight and when it came to getting himself a licence it was then we found out his real age he was 52 he went onto having 2 fights 1 win 1 loss.
The point i am making is forget age if you want to Box then Box and if anybody asks how old you are tell them to mind there own buisness
and good luck in your career.

CK1Champ

no harm in taking up boxing at any age...if you want to be competitive you may find yourself playing catch up against guys who have been competing since they were about 8 and are still competing beacuse they are at a high level but once you have enough determination and hard work in you theres nothing stopping you

keane=cock

digme wrote: »

Sergio Martinez took up boxing at 19,and he beat Paul Williams a few weeks back.

did he really????

i thnk you will find he lost that fight!:o

dublincitybhoy

cheers for all the advice.. does anyone know how long it would take 2 get my first fight and is there competitions for novice boxers or whats the format? could any1 tell me what the intermediates are?? thanks again

cppromotions

My advice to you would be to join your local amatuer boxing club they will guide you from then on good luck and get back to us let us know how it went

keane=cock

dublincitybhoy wrote: »

cheers for all the advice.. does anyone know how long it would take 2 get my first fight and is there competitions for novice boxers or whats the format? could any1 tell me what the intermediates are?? thanks again

depends on how quckly you adapt to sparring and how you take care of yourself in the ring on getting your first fight. plenty of novice events or even exhibtion. once you are a little more expeienced you no longer are a novice and become an intermeiate fighter. novices then intermedates and then seniors, thats the chain. if your good enough you go tru the ranks

cowzerp

Listen lets get real here, in the states they let Adults join the gyms as they charge them good money to train.

in most Irish gyms the aim is to make irish champions and the way to do that is to get a kid and teach them for years till they become really good, this takes years and the coaches dont make a penny..

The like of my club which is a professional fight club accepts adults but i train the kids seperately, the adults paying honest fee's keep the club running

As far as the intermediates go, people seem to think this is a low level, its very high and for a lad doing Boxing less than 3 years they would most likely get stopped in there 1st fight at that level. most intermediates are fighting 10 years plus..

cppromotions

I agree with you about the Intermediates it is a very high level competition almost as hard to win as the Seniors as far as the gyms in the USA are concerned the Gym i trained in the USA was for Professional boxers only and you didnt pay any fees if you were good you would sign a contract and pay the Minimum 10% to your trainer but anybody else who walked in like the older person i refered to are not charged it wasnt about money with them they would just make up numbers in the gym and add an atmosphere.
But as far as other gyms are concerned i cant comment on them .
Where is your gym and do you cover all types of martial arts i did some Brazilian Juijitsu with the American top team not at a high level just a couple of months and i realy got into it i would like to continue as i found it as a great means of fitness as well as a good self defence.

cowzerp

cppromotions wrote: »

Where is your gym and do you cover all types of martial arts i did some Brazilian Juijitsu with the American top team not at a high level just a couple of months and i realy got into it i would like to continue as i found it as a great means of fitness as well as a good self defence.

Cool, our gym is in Rush co, dublin, we do Boxing, BJJ, MMA, and a striking class that is striking for MMA, Sure pm me if ya want info about it or help in finding a club near you..

digme

keane=cock wrote: »

did he really????

i thnk you will find he lost that fight!:o

I seen the fight and i thought he won along with 99% of people,did you see the funeka fight? He lost too lol.Porobably the worst loss I've ever seen in boxing.Anyway reply in a pm to me if ya want,don't want to take over the thread.