Potential to Becoming a Good Boxer?

[Nate1185]

Hello, I'm new to these forums and I've recently taken up an interest in boxing. I've never actually sparred or anything like that but I have been exercising and am in decent shape. I am wondering if my body type would be good for boxing:

Height: 5' 11'' (180 cm)
Weight: 150 lbs (68 kg)
Reach: 74 in. (188 cm)
~6% Body fat

I've always been pretty slim and find it very hard to put on weight. Other sports I've played in the past (and did well in) include cross country running and ice hockey. Recently I've been working out in all kinds of different ways without weights (I'm somewhat limited due to a wrist injury at the moment), including shadow-boxing, jogging, and push-ups.

Mainly wondering if my height and weight match up very well as far as weight classes are concerned and where my reach would rank in my weight class. Comments, questions, tips appreciated.

[Youngblood]

Listen, your height and weight are just fine. We've seen many of these kind of threads over the years which is normal, but this is the deal. Don't sweat that stuff.

If you want to box the most important thing is your ability to get your ass through the boxing gym doors. From there on in your determination and how much you find you like/love it will set the course for where you and boxing end up.

Good luck and welcome to Saddos.

[meehaja]

Like he said... A good boxer is a boxer with good strength, good endurance, good awareness and good speed. When you're in the ring, contending a world championship belt, then body type matters, until then, get control of the stuff you can control!

Good work with the body weight exercises, go easy on that wrist, skipping might be good as it'll build the forearm muscles, supporting the weakness better and give you a good card workout at the same time.

Shadow boxing is great, but without the technique to match, you're just dancing, and if I ever see people dancing like that, I know they're going home alone. Find a local gym to train with, if you're not feeling up to a full on boxing gym (because, actually they can be quite threatening places until you get used to it) look for a boxing based fitness class (boxercise?) To get the basics down and get used to punching a bag, be careful with bags though, its very easy to wreck your wrist, not so easy to heal!

Hope that helps a little? And yeah, you're body type sounds fine.

[Gray Lion]

Youngblood hit it right when he told you about getting through the gym doors and doing it.
From there, it depends on you, how good your trainers are, and so many variables.
Like playing a piano. some people are terrible, some play fair, some play good, but there is always that one in thousands, who just can put it all together, hone his talent, and become great.
The challenge is for you to see if you can do that.