Has anybody been dropped in sparring before?or i should say put down with a body shot

[stephenmc]

I'm training for championships at the moment (their next week) and I have plenty of experience. I normally spar heavy lads which is normal to me as I'm one of the lightest in the gym.

I was very proud that I had never been knocked down both in a fight or sparring since iv been boxing since I was 12 (I'm 25 now),
But Las night I was sparring with a fella in my gym who is also training for the championships, I'm cutting weight to make the 54kg limit, while he is 80 cutting to 75, so their was a good 20kg difference, that doesn't faze me,I think its good and it was mostly technical work.
The third round came, and after only taking 4-5 punches the last two round.

I was hit with a body shot, and my god iv never got hit to the body like that, no excuses it was a peach of left hand to my gut, and I dropped almost instantly, doubled over in pain and gasping for air ha.
What I noticed was I couldn't get up. If it was a fight id of been KOd from it...

Has anybody been dropped in sparring before?? Or dropped with a body shot? And is their a certain way to get up and continue after a body shot like that??

[GTTofAK]

I was hit with a body shot, and my god iv never got hit to the body like that, no excuses it was a peach of left hand to my gut, and I dropped almost instantly, doubled over in pain and gasping for air ha.
What I noticed was I couldn't get up. If it was a fight id of been KOd from it...

Has anybody been dropped in sparring before?? Or dropped with a body shot? And is their a certain way to get up and continue after a body shot like that??

As a southpaw I've had to eat a lot of hard left hooks to the liver. They hurt like hell and I've had to take a knee before. A hard livershot is about the closest a man can come to giving birth.

The best advice I can give is that you have a couple of seconds before the pain gets debilitating. Take a quick knee then get up and stall the ref for as long as you can. If you stay on your knee you will not be able to stand up once the pain really sets in.

[AHussain123]

I am a newbie, I dont know if my experience will count, When I spar, I get reckless at times and start throwing, I got caught a couple of times with body shots, The first time, I got hit with a bodyshot, I went down not lying down but to me knees. I could not breathe, I was shocked it was the first time that I had got winded.

[2ofEverything]

The only time I've ever been put down was from body shots, live/solar plexus hurts like a mother. The only time I've ever actually keeled over and dropped was from an uppercut to the solar plexus that took every little drop of air out of my lungs.

Wheezing on the ground balled up in a corner... Sad

[Tony.]

Knocked the **** out..

Yeah, mate I've been knocked the **** out b4, I was in my teens and started boxing. Knocked out cold, clean.

Myself and my two best mates started (one of them ended up in the Royal Marines). But, the 3 of us started, and after about 2 months of intensive work, they called the gym together and made them all sit..round the sparring rings as per usual. All the new guys got a turn to shuffle their feet, and throw their hands around a bit. As the beads of sweat were dripping, we were all pretty nervous, as usual. But we got a lot of cheers, and encouragement a from the normal guys sitting around he ring waving their fists.

This is a good practice for encouragement.

About 6 - 10 times sparring after that, over the next couple of weeks they put me in the ring with a young Zulu warrior who held some sort of South African championship, amateur I'm guessing. Polished, black ivory body, chiseled like a drawing board. Head movement like a champion, and little waist on a swivel.

If any of you don't know anything about the Zulu? Check them out, they're a mean bunch.

Anyway, this dude used to come in every few days to training, like the rest of us with his duffel bag, hover craft - like big brown Bronx boots (tins) hair perfectly gelled up like a t-man style, mc hammer kind of thing, veins of hands carved out like maps, rocks, and slightly baggy yet perfectly ironed deep stone blue jeans. You can see he took pride in his appearance, and looked after himself looking after the ladies. He was an Alpha man. A boy from the townships.

The round started well, until he started knocking me around like I was the little rickety boat and he was the big bad storm. I garnered, pretty early on that he didn't understand English too well. After some shocking left and right hand shots, I motioned to the coach who was and he stepped in a little, and had a word with little 'Goerge' which was his name, the coach was in the ring and he/the fighter gestured me a little and carried on fighting me, a little while in again just before the buzzer went, and I was in terrible agony.

The coach spoke to him a few times over the duration of the next round, and two and very time he seemed to listen, but I really wasn't sure if it was he didn't understand English properly it because I was perceived as a threat being a tall, white guy. I have no racism, in me but unfortunately my previous generation didn't leave much for us to go by. And the African brothers in my land still feel the sting.

Like I said, I don't know what it was.

Come half way, through the third or fourth round (he was a very quick, inward pressure fighter. Using lots of little steps, cuts and curious angles, bobbing and weaving and throwing hooks and cuts like the butcher knife meister) I was taking heated punishment, and to be quite frank, was pretty terrified. For all those school kids, who all of us remember, who like to big it up in their social circles, and call everything thing from everyone out, and say that boxing doesn't matter, when it comes down to the real thing, they didn't know what they were talking about when you fight a real boxer. Now, I have to admit I don know if I did it on purpose, or if It was a slip and I made a mistake, but chances and gate be, he wasn't wearing a ball box, and in the delirious dizziness, I reached and hit him low. Don't take the 'reached' as a deliberate proposal, like I said I don't know. I think it was a bit of both. I was about as scared as a kid could be. He was like jaws the bloody badass shark, and I was like little 'pillow' the goldfish. And he was chasing me around taking huge 'munch-it's' out of my arse.

He bent down, took a knee in agony, coach put his hand on the shoulder for a while. Me, relieved beginning to put my one foot, through the rope when he it up and glared at me, and the coach proceeded to tell me no, no it's okay he can carry on he's a tough boy.

Trying to keep him away, with the peppering jabs a few moments later, his
Mood a little more heated, but more of an ominous - little shark like eyes, and hidden focus underneath, found myself backed up in the corner, he peppered me with a few shots in the top, I tried to counter a few back while blocking, not non my short little sparring career had I seen this before, but he then disappeared, dropped down and I panicked (leaning back on the ropes a little) threw a flurry of punches and then he came back up, peppering me while he did, until he reached the top and then bam hit me with a nuclear missile of an uppercut under my chin, swish I went straight to sleep. I can remember the moment the lights went out.

Woke up in the bathroom, on the changing room benches, some my team mates obviously carried me there, (stench smell of that little bottle they use to wake u up in nostrils) felt cold trickle down my face, that lot up my logic, an memory remembered why I was there? The cold, bright naked lights of the changing room, telling my name like when u go out too late at night, to a house party and drink way too much alcohol? Talk to that damn fine girl u want to misbehave, and then wake up in a room lot your own. All your memory come pouring back.

[soul_survivor]

I'm training for championships at the moment (their next week) and I have plenty of experience. I normally spar heavy lads which is normal to me as I'm one of the lightest in the gym.

I was very proud that I had never been knocked down both in a fight or sparring since iv been boxing since I was 12 (I'm 25 now),
But Las night I was sparring with a fella in my gym who is also training for the championships, I'm cutting weight to make the 54kg limit, while he is 80 cutting to 75, so their was a good 20kg difference, that doesn't faze me,I think its good and it was mostly technical work.
The third round came, and after only taking 4-5 punches the last two round.

I was hit with a body shot, and my god iv never got hit to the body like that, no excuses it was a peach of left hand to my gut, and I dropped almost instantly, doubled over in pain and gasping for air ha.
What I noticed was I couldn't get up. If it was a fight id of been KOd from it...

Has anybody been dropped in sparring before?? Or dropped with a body shot? And is their a certain way to get up and continue after a body shot like that??

I've never been dropped by a bodyshot but I have been hurt by a few and it always takes the breath away and makes the legs feel weak.

If you do ever get KD, body shot or head, it doesn't matter, because two things will get you back on your feet: determination and condition and the latter is more important. So get yourself in the best possible shape and stay there as much as possible.

I had a limited amateur career and never really bounced around in weight between fights and the other guys who always did well, were not stopped or managed to always get back up, were the guys who also kept their conditioning to the highest possible level.

Keep that in mind and you'll be fine.

[AddiX]

The only time I ever went down was from a left hook to the body, exactly like the way Hopkins took out Oscar.

I was in a small ring and sparring a pro who was older but was also a good 30 lbs bigger than me. I was training for the golden gloves and I really wanted to spar so I kept talking smack to get him in the ring with me.

And yeah, he got me good. My whole body literally stopped working.

Honestly I was happy he didn't break my floating rib. I never got caught backing up against the ropes with elbows out again though.

Thats the thing about boxing that makes it so hard, to get better you need to get hurt.

[MrMayhem]

LMAO I got dropped the other day with one. I was sick with the flu and sparring this kid who just came back from a tournament. Made matters worse I was talking **** to him haha....I thought I was protecting my liver and he came right behind my elbow I almost threw the hell up. Me and that kid go at it all the time he got me this round though haha

[MrMayhem]

I'm training for championships at the moment (their next week) and I have plenty of experience. I normally spar heavy lads which is normal to me as I'm one of the lightest in the gym.

I was very proud that I had never been knocked down both in a fight or sparring since iv been boxing since I was 12 (I'm 25 now),
But Las night I was sparring with a fella in my gym who is also training for the championships, I'm cutting weight to make the 54kg limit, while he is 80 cutting to 75, so their was a good 20kg difference, that doesn't faze me,I think its good and it was mostly technical work.
The third round came, and after only taking 4-5 punches the last two round.

I was hit with a body shot, and my god iv never got hit to the body like that, no excuses it was a peach of left hand to my gut, and I dropped almost instantly, doubled over in pain and gasping for air ha.
What I noticed was I couldn't get up. If it was a fight id of been KOd from it...

Has anybody been dropped in sparring before?? Or dropped with a body shot? And is their a certain way to get up and continue after a body shot like that??

Dont feel bad we have all been there. You cant fight a good body shot, it takes you down. Ive never been dropped or knocked out hell even stunned but twice in sparring that liver shot put me down