got hurt tuesday sparring, I think!!

so i was sparring from a long lay off of 9 months and i went into the ring with this kid and i told him lets go easy! he throws once at me really hard then another then another so i start goin hard to but since I've been out of the game for a while i was sloppy, and i felt like if i was throwing punches with 500 pound weights on each hand. Well anyways, i threw a jab and try to walk in with a right switching orthodox to shouthpaw and right in the middle of switching he hit me with a right hand right on the button. I felt my knees buckle but im not sure if that was just my being off balanced! that's were i need you help. Because I've been stunned before by way harder hitters ( one of them was even 30 lbs heavier than me) and the way i recall getting hurt is everything goes slow motion and in a matter of half a second everything goes slowly back to normal and when this happened i felt fine well my head atleast. So is there a possibility he could've hurt me without me even knowing it? or was it more of a case of me being off balance?

It could have been a balance issue, it could also be down to having a long lay off. Nothing to back this up except my own experience but you get used to being hit. When I've had lay offs and come back it takes a while for it all to come back.

Don't forget the conditioning you do prepares the body and mind.

A boxer's goal should be not to get hit... but saying that with experience your body does learn how to deal with punches, it's all to do with your neck muscles/position of your feet etc and how your nervous system adapts your skeleton/head position accordingly.

So yeah, if you've been off for 9 months then reversibility will have happened (use it or lose it) and you're probably not neurologically wired as well to deal with and adapt to a punch.

If anybody hits you in the right place/position then it will affect you.