Getting the urge

[NYG]

Ive been getting the urge to box. A few months ago i decided at age 23 that i wouldnt look into it since i figured i was too old but now im getting the urge to try it. Not sure what i should do. I want to go pro for sure though

[Rockin']

boxing is not an 'urge', it's a way of life.........

[OctoberRed]

Ive been getting the urge to box. A few months ago i decided at age 23 that i wouldnt look into it since i figured i was too old but now im getting the urge to try it. Not sure what i should do. I want to go pro for sure though

Go to a gym, sign up for a few training classes, but you would be a long way from going pro.

I would target the amateurs first.

[McNulty]

Ive been getting the urge to box. A few months ago i decided at age 23 that i wouldnt look into it since i figured i was too old but now im getting the urge to try it. Not sure what i should do. I want to go pro for sure though

Slow down right there champ. Lets get you into an amateur program and see how you handle that. Being a pro boxer is a very difficult and dangerous thing to do.

23, I'm not going to lie --- I would forget about turning pro for the time being. Lets say you got into a program tomorrow and trained to a competitive level and wanted to be good, you're looking at a 3 year MINIMUM investment so flash forward to 26. Best you could do is get to a pro level by the time your 27.

Not impossible, but the Amateurs are pretty hard bro.

[Ray Corso]

Darts, bowling, bocce, along with pin the tail on the donkey
are all great activities and can be very competitive too!!!!

You can also hold a beer in your opposite hand as you compete. Twenty-three is then perfect beginning age and your prime could easily be 7 to 8 year.

I never heard of an "urge to box" but hey what do I know.
Good luck with your decision.

Ray

[OctoberRed]

Darts, bowling, bocce, along with pin the tail on the donkey
are all great activities and can be very competitive too!!!!

You can also hold a beer in your opposite hand as you compete. Twenty-three is then perfect beginning age and your prime could easily be 7 to 8 year.

I never heard of an "urge to box" but hey what do I know.
Good luck with your decision.

Ray

Those are much safer activities as well.

[Eddy Current]

I first joined a boxing gym when I was about 23. I never had any intention whatsoever of fighting pro, and never really intended to take an amateur fight.
I ended up just getting really into the training and getting a good amount of sparring in. My goal was pretty much just to learn the sport and get to the point where I knew what I was doing to a certain extent. If that's all you want to do, then 23 is most definitely not too late.

[Mr.MojoRisin']

Gotta love internet boxers

[OctoberRed]

Gotta love internet boxers

Some internet boxers make it big, like Charlie Zelenoff. Fought Wilder, Mayweather Sr.... LOL

[b Murphington]

Idk why anyone would want to go pro.

That documentary Champs, it showed a statistic that the average professional boxer makes $30,000 a year. That's average btw, so if you suck, you're making less than that. Who can live off of that in todays world?

Most professional boxers have fulltime jobs on top of boxing. You have any idea how time consuming that is?

Hell. Most of the amateur boxers that are really dedicated who I know personally don't seem to have lives. They just train all the time, and they don't even fight for checks.

Can't imagine how the professional feels, being the very first fight on an untelevised undercard at 6 in the evening, in front of a crowd of maybe 50 people (half of which are crew for the event), and then at the end of it, they walk away with like $1,500.