When should you start to train in boxing?

[Atwa_66]

Jameel McCline started really late, also, but he sucks..

hahaha really, it shows

[Tha Greatest]

ya

Holyfield got a late start
Hopkins got a late start but they were reqally good

[boxer2k5]

thats not true im 22 and i have bills and a job

and i learn faster than the kids at my gym

its not a fact

it depends on who is focused and who is not

yeah kids might not have to worry about things like lifde and bills
but they mind is easily distracted away from the task at hand

[hectari]

^but when you train a kid they tend to take things as a game and lose that fear so they get used to the ring and tend to be more comfortable, while you have an adult who has never been in a ring and he steps in there for the first time the nerves and feeling are new and hard to adjust too, basically it has to be instilled in you I believe.

The first time I stepped in a ring just to spar I could not really focus because it is a different feeling then watching, the adrenaline and blood pressure goes up.

that is why I feel training younger is more benificial.

[- Evil -]

It depends on your weight, the smaller the fighter the sooner they should start.

[Tha Greatest]

ya

if ur 50 or if ur 5 there will be a time when ur nervous!

It aint about your age, it's about courage.

Boxing aint like football, baseball or baasketball,
you gotta bring your own balls!!

[BrickJungleGorilla]

Im just getting started training at 16, and i saw on ESPN or HBO or something that De La Hoya only started boxing at 16, and spent 2 years in the amateurs and turned pro at 19. So if De La Hoya started at 16 then really there isnt a too late.
And come to think of it, i think i heard that Bernard Hopkins didnt start boxing till he got locked up, and i think he was in his late mid-late 20s by then.

[boxernyc]

Tomorrow is too late. Start today. Don't use history to dictate what can and can not be done. I am 28 and I just started. I'm not unrealistic, just optimistic and a f'n hard worker. I'll put my 6 days a week in and see how I do in the amatuers. Just start out, train hard and see how far you go and how fast you learn.

[fluckz]

Im just getting started training at 16, and i saw on ESPN or HBO or something that De La Hoya only started boxing at 16, and spent 2 years in the amateurs and turned pro at 19. So if De La Hoya started at 16 then really there isnt a too late.
And come to think of it, i think i heard that Bernard Hopkins didnt start boxing till he got locked up, and i think he was in his late mid-late 20s by then.

i believe b-hop was locked up at 17 and started then, won some sort of prison championship, and got out 4 years later