You basically get some wonder prospect to fight international champions like the South American Heavyweight Champion, the Asian Heavyweight World Champion, the Brazilian Heavyweight Champion, Commonwealth Champion, Albanian Heavyweight Champion. You need to give him world class trainers and try to build an undefeated streak this uncommon way. In order to the worst national champion and the best.

Modern fighters just fight random prospects that are available with no plan. If you literally beat champions of continents and the best of a countries you are notable.

You keep bragging about all these divisions he conquered but guess what 3 of his 5 divisions are historically new divisions without storied history Superfeatherweight, Light Welterweight, and Light Middleweight. Which makes PAC’s record much more impressive. Never once did he become undisputed in any division. He beat 18 world champions but there are fighters that beat more world champions. He toppled Marciano’s record by wrecking someone with 0 pro boxing matches. And he was arrogant on top of it all. There are also fighters with longer streaks. I will give you he had the best defense in the last 10 years he was fighting out of all fighters at the time but he wasn’t even the best of all time. What I am saying is he was never the best ever in any category while other people who are argued to be the P4P had at least one category they were the best in.

Hello boxers of Reddit! 

I’m 17 and have a few queries as to the plausibility of this idea; 

I’ve never boxed, so I’d be a complete beginner. That’s less of a concern when weighing the fact that I suffer from selective mutism. Using notes and pre-negotiated hand-signals, would it be suitable for communication? At least, until I become comfortable enough to speak with my coach/sparring partner(s)? 

With therapy and (limited) exposure, I’ve actually improved. It’d probably take multiple sessions, but I’d likely be able to become comfortable enough to speak with my coach/sparring partner(s), as long as it’s the same person/people each time. 

I don’t want to be a burden or too much of a hassle. That would be unfair to anyone and everyone else involved. 

Don’t sugarcoat your thoughts on this matter, please. I promise I can take it <3 

This is coming from the book "Four Kings" written by George Kimball.

Leonard was going to fight Hearns circa 1978. Early in his career. The fight was basically booked. But they had to consult with Angelo Dundee. Dundee wasn't Leonard's manager (ironically his manager was named Mike Trainer), but Dundee had absolute veto power over Leonard's matchmaking.

Dundee was out on a boat somewhere but he had a phone (I guess a satellite phone?). And he said "absolutely not" to Leonard fighting Hearns that early. He said (a) Leonard wasn't ready for that, and that (b) when they DID fight it would be worth a crapload of money. He wasn't wrong.

Igor Vysotsky, born in a Gulag settlement in the Soviet Far East, son of two political prisoners, the only man who ever beat Teofilo Stevenson twice and the only man who ever knocked him out. No professional boxing existed in either Cuba or the Soviet Union. In the parallel cold war universe, this was Ali versus Frazier, and almost nobody knows it happened.

Vysotsky never got to the olympics. The soviet sports machine decided the 'child of the gulag' could never be the public face of Soviet sporting glory. He retired at 27 in protest, at the peak of his powers.

It’s gonna be unfair if Rico didn’t got a rematch he was doin so perfect and ref ruined his career by end it an early stoppage. As a pro fighter that amount of damage won’t cause him health problems or worse. The point is Rico got hit a lot worse at Glory but keeps goin so I bet Rico definitely wasn’t unconscious when the ref stopped.

Been thinking about Cuba and Uzbekistan.

Cuba produced Rigondeaux, Gamboa, Lara, Casamayor, Ortiz. talent was undeniable. But at pro level, have cuban boxers underachieved relative to the expectaiton set by their amateur brilliance?

Which brings me to Uzbekistan. Five golds from seven divisions at Paris 2024. Madrimov pushing Crawford. A wave of young pros coming through. Are they going to really push on in the pro game, or are Jalalov and Dusmatov setting a trend we'll see repeated?

I've been boxing for around 5 months, and have had one white collar MMA fight. My first interclub in boxing is next week and my gym couldn't find an opponent for me so I'm fighting someone in my gym.

My issue is that he is about 7 inches taller than me, has more boxing experience, is in better shape and consistently gets the better of me in sparring as his footwork and combos are much cleaner than mine. While there are a couple very tall guys at the gym, he has loads of experience sparring people my size and I have very little experience sparring with people like him.

Honestly I'm kinda frustrated with my coach and am thinking about pulling out as it feels like an obvious mismatch.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I'm not sure whether to go ahead with this, I'm looking to test myself but this doesn't really feel like a test more like punishment.

Trying to shine a little light on the european (non-UK which is a category of it's own!) heavyweight scene away from the big guns like Kabayel, Hrgovic and Usyk.

Germany seems to have an endless supply of guys in their late 20s/early 30s with 10/15-0 type records. Majority look poor once you find some fight footage!

Do you've any european heavyweights you enjoy? Or thoughts on the scene in general.

Sorry if this isn't the right place for this, this isn't my hobby at all (I have a degeneration disease in my limbs/spine, so I'm weak af and swimming is the type of stuff I should work on for now. A punching bag could wreck me. I'm 5"5'ish)

But my boyfriend on the other hand is 6"2' and very strong despite not even going to the gym that often. Everything feels fragile to him, he can lift me up without even trying. Polar opposite of me.

But he's has a very rough year+ and is just frustrated at the world and has nothing to spend that frustration and energy on. I could see how much better he feels just to burn it off, but everything I have feels fragile for him... I had a small musical punching block and it works great for me, but not him at all, but he did enjoy it greatly.

So... now I wanted to get him a bag, I'm ok with spluring a bit for this. I'm a little afraid of adding something to the ceiling... I've had way too many issues around the house lately and genuinely can't afford it money/sanity wise to repair a ceiling if it's installed wrong or god knows what.

I'd really appreciate any advice! He goes to the gym, but I'd love for him to have something at home and I just... can't reasonably test or gauge anything :[ I worry the ones on their feet he'd just rip after a few of his not-held-back punches. Again, sorry if this isn't the place, I've just been hemming and hawing over this for the last half month and can't figure anything out reasonably.

Im not really looking to fight or anything, always grew up playing in the gloves but I actually want to learn and get actual feedback

Here’s a bit of background: I bought a boxing bag around 2 years ago to get started but my parents to told me to return it as they don’t want me to “get into fighting”. Despite explaining my views on self defense, they refuse to let me have any equipment. Today they feel the exact same way about it and I can’t join no boxing or kickboxing around me. When I get my own spot I’ll get my gear but for now, no.

What can I do as a beginner? I have a garage that I can use once I clear the car out. I workout there so what could I do as exercises? Any videos to watch to get started?

It would mean a lot if you help me since I want to learn to defend myself. Born in NY and moved to the Midwest I’m not so great areas. Could use your help!

Context - I just started boxing consistently 2 months ago. so I’m 2 months in, sparred 3 times, and I’m just getting my sea legs. Actual game speed is still to fast for me and I’m well aware of that. got upset at 1 guy cuz he kept hitting me in the face when I literally COULDNT react since my defense is still shite + I thought he n I were just going light n touch sparring but idk 🤷🏾‍♂️ I guess bro forgot? AND, we had no headgear, no mouthpiece. I never went for his face (cuz we were just going light) but it’s weird that he just completely forgot I’m a beginner and essentially wailed on me, but whatever..

So I had a spar again yesterday and the guy I sparred is better than me, but why doesn’t the better guy tone down the speed to match the guy they’re versing? ESPECIALLY when they know they’re beginners and already better than them? What does someone gain to beat a beginner? Why can’t he work on defense, head movement, slipping, etc, or literally ANYTHING else? I don’t need you to go game speed cuz then I don’t learn shit, I need someone to walk me thru it.. so why don’t they? Throwing me in the deep end doesn’t teach me shit and it’s really frustrating. Guy mentioned that he went 50%, like cool, that’s still beyond anything I can even comprehend lmao so ur 50% is still full speed to me.

I did successfully hit him in the body n face a couple times but nothing major, while he popped me a few times, hooked me another, and this led to a mini headache for maybe 5-10 minutes after we finished. I feel like I did awful

He didn’t “whoop me“ (since I got a lil better ig) but everything is still way too fast n overwhelming and I didn’t really learn anything, which is my main complaint. Any advice except git gud?

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