[quote]tuchavito wrote:
fightu35 wrote:
1st off we been though this, punchers are born,not made in the gym, nerves will win or lose the fight for you,Ii had 48 amature boxing matches as well as 15 in ISKA,stick to the basics,no more,no less,if your strong it will come,mentaly you must be there,have confidence,and ‘BEAT THAT MAN’ as Jeremy Williams says…
give yuor best,and you can never be a ‘loser’ but if you walk in that ring with doubts,you already lost as far as weight,is it novice ? or sub novice ? and heavyweight,or super heavy weight ?
ok man, no doubts.
Well my trainer was told that this is my oponent’s first fight, my oponent weights 220pounds. I guess it’s just normal, it’s my first fight, i’ve trained really hard for the last 4 months, my skills have improved a lot, i’ll give all of me on the ring, i’ll just do my stuff.
i will BEAT THAT MAN.[/quote]
A story which you might find helpful, and relates to your earlier post about wanting to KO your opponent.
One of my instructors was in his first sanctioned fights and up against a very good boxer whom he’d heard was extremely tough.
During the first round the two of them pretty much just tested each other out. At the end of the round my instructor decided that he was going to try to end the fight early. Basically to prove to himself that he could KO a tough fighter like his opponent.
So, for all of the second and third rounds he hit this guy with everything he had. Head and body as hard as he could. The guy would not go down. And on top of that by the end of the third round my instructor was starting to get tired.
Realizing that this strategy wasn’t working and assuming that the stories he’d heard were true about this guy being extremely tough, my instructor decided to take a different approach and just try to remain loose and relaxed and see if maybe he could use superior speed to outpoint him.
Early into the fourth round he KO’d the guy.
After the fight he went up to the guy and said, “damn man, you are one tough SOB, I hit you with everything I had in those 2nd and 3rd rounds and you just wouldn’t go down.” To which his opponent replied (and my instructor said he will never forget this), “You were trying to KO me during the 2nd and 3rd rounds? Man, I thought you were taking those rounds off!”
The moral of the story is that “trying” to KO your opponent will likely cause you to have excessive tension (on top of the tension you will likely already have from first fight nerves) which will rob you of your power. Where as if you simply relax and let the punches fly and the mechanics that you’ve worked on do the work for you, you’ll be much better off, and might just wind up with that KO after all.
Good luck. 