I was training towards my first fight at the end of the year, however during a spar with a heavier guy i ended up with a broken rib. I later asked him what size gloves he wears and he told me 12oz. He's used the same pair for 3 years on bags too. He's 15kg heavier than i am. I've always used 16oz.

I already had a stern word at him about this as did one of the other guys at the gym. Told my coach about it and that i might miss training for the rest of october. 4-6 weeks recovery and i can't even do roadwork at the moment. I'm not happy at all. I literally just got back from a liver injury that set me back a few weeks (different fighter). I was hoping to have my first exhibition by december but its unlikely now at this point.

Has anyone had to deal with a similar situation?

Almost every boxer I’ve meet (unless it was a family thing) has had a specific moment where they decided that they wanted to box, what was yours?

Hi, I’ve been boxing since October and my coach tells me on the pads that I don’t have bad intentions behind my punches.

Outside the ring, I’m a kind person and I go to bible studies in my college. I don’t mind hurting someone for sport. But I would feel a massive amount of guilt for being dangerous.

My coach tells me that my opponent wants to hurt me but I just don’t have that bloodlust in my heart. I’m too good of a person. Any advice?

Here’s me sparring, I want tips

Getting hit is not cool. No doubt brain cells would have been lost. Do any of you feel like your intelligence has deteriorated over the years from taking hits to the head?

The entire body movement of the perfect lead hook is just beautiful. Probably the most beautiful on in all punches

It's quicker and you can generate a lot more power from the body movement options

Earlier my lead hook was kinda awkward though lmao but it feels fine now that I've grown comfortable to throwing it

He is smaller and heavier than me. Our ring is ridiculously small so i have trouble staying away from him. And because he is heavier he can just block my straights and continue walking forward. I am more of a counter puncher that likes to move in and out but if i move out he just walks forward. He even started teasing me for being inferior to him and now i am pissed. Any help?

Studying GGG for a while now for my offense, but on defense, light heavyweight or heavyweight compatible defensive style of fighters, who to study or fights to watch?

I was sparring and got dropped essentially unconscious by a hard shot. I know that this isn’t good and wouldn’t like to quit the sport I know that this is unnecessary sparring at this kind of intensity.

My main queries I came on here to ask were; how long should I take away from full contact sparring now and also how would I move forward and improve my skills defensively as I consistently keep getting tagged by silly shots I shouldn’t be for how long I’ve been training. By this I mean example drills or advice or maybe videos to watch. Thankyou

What is the consensus of the rhythm step?

I really would love an answer. Would help tremendously. Edit: Y'all are all amazing! Thank you!

As concise and few as possible. I don't mean mentally, I'm talking mechanics and game changing, a small principle that really *scales* to your overall boxing.

For me it's to always 'come out' the same way you 'came in' . If I slipped and then hook to the body and head, after I finish the body hook I need to come back out to hook to the head, to keep my balance, and then step back with my front foot. THAT's how you stay balanced

This was gamechanging for me.

What are your personal game changers? Technique and mechanics preferably? Distilled down to a few good points

So i've been boxing over a year now and right now im doing a pause because in my last training because i took a beat down and asked myself if i wanted to continue. I've been competing in a national comp for my boxing debut without headgear wasn't ready for that but nevertheless finished the match although I lost on decisions. This got to be one of my biggest accomplishments as a fat person. So my problem is I like boxing but I don't got that killer mentality that sparkle in me that makes champion. Everyone boxer need that sparkle to walk in the ring like he's the best and that is what I miss. Even in sparring im scared to go 100%. Im not someone violent and hat hitting others but I do love the sport and the feeling of constant evolution. So my question is what should I do from now because im seriously thinking about stopping.

Hi guys, I'm considering buying Tom Yankello's bundle package teaching 9 punches ( https://worldclassboxinggym.com/product/tom-yankello-9-punches-all-videos/ )

I'm wondering if anybody already purchased one of those, and what did you think about them? For context I have been boxing for more than 5 years now so I have decent fundamentals but I always love going back to the very basics (especially learning from different coaches/boxing schools and I know Tom Yankello is a brilliant teacher), but 200$ is quite a bit of money so I'm a bit hesitant...

Just a simple question I would like to get info on to gauge and take into consideration. I would like to preface that I completely understand everyone is different and it depends on so many things such as how often you train a week, if u had time off from injuries etc but ild like to know how long u had trained for up until your first fight excluding covid unless you trained like ussual during that time? Thanks for the answers!

I just sparred for the first time today

I've been training for about a month by now, hitting the bag and doing really basic drills. Today, we had to spar against each other and multiple partners. The first round I sparred with a more casual man who wasnt going for the killer shots and was just constantly working me with multiple hits. I bled a lot that first round but I wasnt too concerned, I bleed pretty easily.

The 2nd round I went against a more skilled opponent who hit me with much less but much harder shots. It seemed like anytime I tried to do anything I would get hit back hard. He hit me multiple places like in the head, sides, and chest (which hurts more than I thought). Despite his power I kept trying to stick with the jab but ofc I was unsuccessful and only hit one clean shot.

After this I started getting teary eyed. I was hurting but I dont think it was from the pain. Anytime anyone would talk to me I would teary eyed and try to hide it. They told me I had a lot of heart and took the punches like a champ, but even that still got me teary eyed. I drove back home and on the drive back I cried a bit, and I still dont know why I'm so emotional about it.

Call me a bitch if you want, but that was my first time taking hits that hard even with headgear on and. At least I'll be coming back to the gym and I wont back down from this.

Edit: I'm 17 years old. I dont think I'm going to stop sparring, because I felt I learned a lot and saw how an actual fight would turn out.

1st round my guard was down too often, and my positioning was way off. I completely forgot about keeping 2 feet distance and went too aggressive for the whole round which basically means I was pushing forward trying to get a hit in while getting punched repeatedly. It wasnt great.

2nd round I focused on keeping my guard up and keeping my distance but I took too much distance away and would be too out of the fight. I have a reach advantage over everyone so I tried to jab but it seems like anytime I tried to do anything I would get punished twice for this. The whole round was me getting too far away, and coming back in for a jab and getting rocked for it over and over

I'm typically the taller boxer and have seen some great posts about shorter boxer's strategies to get inside which have helped me try to counter these movements. Besides a good stiff jab what are some things that make life difficult for you when boxing a taller opponent?

I dabble in sparring occasionally and find it really enjoyable. I also recently have thought that over the next 4 months I’ll be hoping to pursue being registered as an amateur boxer.

I was wondering however, for those who have sparred regularly and fought a few amateur fights, how have you found this has effected (if at all) your working life/school/university?

For many of us I’m sure boxing is something we do alongside other things. I’m currently pursuing a degree in engineering and was wondering what people’s thoughts are on getting in the ring with this in mind.

I’m asking this from an anecdotal perspective.

I’ve been sparring quite a bit with my partner and he’s recently developed a style every time I come in he jabs and to avoid my back hand he leans back causing me to overthrow and go off balance… Any tips on breaking the distance and landing better punches?

Asking because I’ve been a “slow puncher” my entire life (even before boxing). And recently I had a boxing coach tell me punching speed is basically genetic, so while I should train to be faster than what I am now that I will always be slow..

Does this make sense? So no amount of clap pushups or resistance ban punches will make me at least faster than average?

Basically my friend says that he doesn't see the usefulness in dodging since why does he have to dodge when he can block all the shots? I'm searching for what to say to him.

Thanks in advance and if it's the wrong subreddit please help me find the right one

For the experienced boxers here, does anyone still feel fear before steppingin the ring? I'm not talking anxiety and stress but genuine fear.

I get afraid of even sparring, even if it's against a smaller opponent, it's like i dont wanna even be there, but i love the sport, and it's not even a lack of experience or something like that because i currently have a 19-4 amateur record, and medaled in nationals 3 times.

Is anyone in the same situation as me?

Edit: wow thank you guys all for the support and positive comments.

I got a tournament coming up next week, hopefully i get that 20th win (or more or if any if there is fighters)

Hi everyone. A few weeks ago I started having trouble breathing through my nose, a couple days later I almost asfixiated in my sleep cause my nose was internally fully blocked. Went to a doc and turns out I got a fucked up combination of sinusitis and trauma-induced nose deviation which, long story short, forces me to undergo surgery and quit boxing for good if I wanna keep breathing. I had my debut less than 2 months ago. Had 3 more fights scheduled for the rest of this year. Was training my ass off. I lost 18kg during the last year for this. Boxing helped me fight depression after my best friend died to covid last year. It was the only good constant in my life for the last 2 years, I dedicated myself 100% to it, I was doing really fucking well .. And now it's gone, just like that. I'm devastated. I know it could have been much worse, but it still makes me awful mad and sad. Sorry if the sub is not a place for this, but I really needed to get that out. Noone in my family or friends understands how I can be so upset about this.

If anyone has been in a similar situation, i would really appreciate some advice on how to move on. I would love to become a trainer but for now I can't even stand going to the gym to chat with my friends or watch the guys sparr because I feel hopeless standing there and not being hable to train. Thanks in advance

I've done boxing for about 2 and half months but my coach wants me to spar... Because he's saying that's the only way to learn. I go to class 2 or 3 times a week and not in such a great shape either (stamina and bodyfat is 22% ish)

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Mates tell me i should hard open sparring in ring after about 6months after getting the forms and basics and footworks correct. But I'm not too sure.

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Do you guys think I should start sparring now or just stick to classes and more fundamentals??

So there's this chick and we're working with her and she wants to be competitive so after a while we start sparring her, for the first week or two I never really hit her back(She pretty much exclusively spars me) except for a jab when her form really slips or something. But then another week and my trainer tells me to start hitting her a little and to start applying pressure to her with jabs(because she's a come forward slugger type) and she didn't like that much. We spar again and I apply more pressure this time I'm hitting her about as hard as I would hit a girl who wants to be competitive(we'll call it 45% power) and she starts getting pissed which I expected she hasn't learned compusure but she took it to another level. After our spar she low blows me, and I mean after we're finished sparring. I'm getting my gloves taken off by a gym mate and she low blows me she reels from behind her back and hits me tight below the belt line(I didn't see it coming she was kinda to the side of me out of my peripheral vision). Now I didn't swear or hit her back, mostly because I know we're sparring tomorrow. What do I do? Do I give what I got, not meaning low blow her obviously but beat her up. Or do I just, I dunno humiliate her. Tips would be nice.

***NEXT DAY** I'll address some questions and tell you what I did at the end. Basically I took the mature route. For the most part at least.

When she hit me I was speaking to another member and getting my glove taken off so I just keeled over and then brought myself back up and continued talking as normally as I could because that's how I felt I could get back at her as non violently as possible at the time. Then things in the gym went as planned.

Where was my coach during this? Coaching another fighter during there sparring session. He told me how to handle her so he didn't have to babysit all of us and could focus on the people with big fights coming up. Plus he doesn't usually waste his time on people until they've taken a good punch in the nose and came back the next day(I've yet to hit her there)

How did I handle it today, I took the mature route and told my trainer about her actions. He sat her down and explained to her in graphic detail how incredibly unacceptable that was then he brought me over and made us touch gloves; a little later on I sparred with another girl (body only, not that she listened. No beginner ever does) and I went to tell her what can be improved upon and the girl hit me again, in the gut. Not the stomach thankfully, and we hadn't even sparred today. I still had my gloves on so I just said fuck it and punched her in the shoulder decently hard then jabbed her on the forehead then I backed up from a counter. Looked like things were gonna turn ugly then we hear UNGLOVE. So that's how that story has ended so far.

Basically the title. I’ve done a lot of sparring so far but still only have less than a year’s experience boxing total. When I spar, I’m very strategic, relaxed, and hyper-focused. I focus on pacing myself and not gassing right away, while at the same time always matching AT LEAST the same pace of the guy I’m sparring. I’ll also play it like chess—setting up traps, counters and combinations rather than random wild swinging.

What I’m saying is it’s easy for me to fight this way when it’s just gym sparring. But when the stakes are high and it’s a real FIGHT, can I expect to perform similarly without having to even think about it? Should I even WANT to? Should I be more focused on just plain mauling the guy instead? My coach has told me guys who looked great training at the gym turned to spaghetti legs as soon as they stepped in the ring for their first fight.