Amateur Boxing

Have you ever wondered where all Big named fighter came from?, Mike Tyson, Muhammed Ali and Roy Joner JR all started out as amatuer boxers working they're way up the rankings. Amatuer boxing is slightly different from Professional boxing, with regards to the attire, all amatuer's must wear headguards to protect they're faces and must wear tops and after three eight counts in a single fight against one boxer, the fight is topped. Aswell as that the gloves are much more cushier (10 ounces) to cushion impact. Without the rules however the idea of amatuer boxing is the same as professional, you must punch the daylights out of your opponents, and I've ...  Read the complete review

Thank you Frankie Gavin, for you are the reason this topic has been brought to my attention, and thus the readers are getting to read this article. Boxing like most sports is spilt into 2 "ranks" the professional and amateur ranks, in most sports with this sort of a split we see the professionals, the ones earning the masses of money, as being far superiour than than their amateur counterparts. In boxing this isn't always the case mainly due to sports not actually being the same sport, just 2 very similar ones which often atheletes may go from amateur to professional. Where as in say football an amateur match is still 90 mins long, a corner is a corner ...  Read the complete review

I decided to write this story in amateur boxing, and not in Is Boxing worth the risk, because what I'm going to write is a true account of a boy, who live changed through taking up boxing. The Boy. The boy in question is actually my older brother, when we were at school, he was always bullied and picked on, even by children younger than him. He was a tall lad for his age, however he was over-weight. I don't believe he was picked on because of his weight, but because he was shy and not very confident. It was as though he was wearing a label that said, "Pick on me." I'm ashamed to say that he embarrassed me. You see I've ...  Read the complete review

Amateur boxing is as different from professional boxing as two sports that aim to concuss an opponent can be. The first difference you will notice is that the amateurs wear a padded headgear designed to protect the athlete from head shots. And I thought you were supposed to be trying to knock the other guy out... The next difference that jumps out at you is the glove design. The gloves for amateurs are more padded, again to reduce injury, and the knuckle area is white. In order for a boxer to score he must hit the opponent with the white part of the glove. Since knockouts are very infrequent (and not expected) because of all the padding and safety ...  Read the complete review