Thread: Advice for 1st amatuer fight?

Alright im having my first amatuer fight feb 18th, (15 days from today) ive only been training about 2 months for it, because i know the guy im fighting is not that good, im actually pretty confident im going to win, his standup is really sloppy. its a mma amatuer fight, but ive been traing my takedown defense more for this, ill copy the link into this thread when i get home, but he throws a lot of haymakers/hooks, and since its mma i dont want to be ducking because he has good kicks, or he could knee me,
what would you do as a boxer in the standup to a guy who throws a bunch of sloppy hooks/haymakers and few jabs, i think my reach is a little longer then his, so my original plan was to be quick on my feet, work the jabs for a while, and mostly be doing 1-2 stick and move combinations, and if i get the opportunity jab him in the solar plex so he cant breathe for a moment and try to make my move to finish it. does this sound like a good plan? for the standup

is the link of who im fighting.. the jalam guy

He likes to pull his head back. Jab him a couple of times, dont try and hit him with it, just try and get him to pull his head back. Then on about the 3rd jab, fake it and throw a long left hook and catch him on the chin. YOU CAN DO IT! Just promise me you'll try it at least once. Then get a video and give us an update.

Or you can just take him to the ground and wear him out. Save your energy while making him work to escape. It looks like his cardio is pretty bad. If you get him like he was in the video while having some gas to finish him, you too can have your very own TKO victory! Good luck! Go get em son!

alright i promise ill try it :P and ill share the link after it gets put on youtube

Boy, I'm just a boxing expert. If I were to fight in MMA, I'd get my ass handed to me by any decent wrestler.

But good luck, man. You've done a good job of trying to figure out how you want to fight. I hope you do well. Get it on camera so that we can see it.

When you catch him with a left like that, follow him fast by drawing your rear leg up to your front leg and flying knee off the front leg as he squares up, he wont get up. He will be looking to keep his head away from more fists with distance and leaning back is a mistake as is going straight back.

He is so open to straight front kicks right between the elbows all the time. If you can bang fast with your legs and send a foot into his mid riff as he runs forwards he is gone. He is open for business and he hasnt a cool head so time him coming,or kick up from under your block, if you hide a front kick coming from under your lead arm he wont even see what happened.

Practice what youre good at ,dont over think it and you'll make the spaces to work in.

And good luck.

I thought somebody might say it, but they're not, so I'll say it. When I hear something like "ive only been training about 2 months for it, because i know the guy im fighting is not that good" I get worried about a fighter's career. Disrespecting your opponent and thinking that your opponent isn't that good and that he can't hurt you and therefore you don't have to train hard is not the recipe of a champion. If you lose this fight you'll be telling yourself and others the excuse "I should have won because he's no good but I only trained 2 months for it".

You saw this guy fight two months ago - you don't know what he's learned or how much better shape he's in now. You're fighting a different guy on the 18th. Assume he learned his lesson from that fight and has worked his ass off the past two months; you better train your ass off, too, if you want to win decisively. The less punishment a fighter takes, the longer his career lasts and the better he does. The better he does and the longer his career lasts, the more money he makes. You'll also be that much better trained for your next fight.

Respect all your opponents and train like there's no tomorrow and you're fighting the next world champion and teach that guy an even harder lesson! You're not going out there to just win. You're going out there to make him re-think his career and decide he's had enough of fighting. Good luck, son! Don't forget to post a video for us!

Incidentally I see you're in the Salem area. I know an ex-pro boxer who trains boxing on the cheap out of his gym in Albany (it's more of a hobby for extra cash). If I recall it's something like $40/month to use his gym and it's open Tuesday-Thursday 4:15-7 or something like that. PM me if you're interested in some contact info.